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joseph1949
Getting Fingers Dirty
To: fotofreek
Like you, I am inclined to reduce the number of rotated carts for each of my colors. I have around six carts for each of my colors. Assuming I rotate the carts out on a monthly basis it would take six months to go through a stock of six carts per color. I think this is too long. I think four carts per color would be better. You would have one in the printer and three waiting to be used. You may have to reduce the number to three. You would need to use trial and error to see what would be the best number.
A used cart that is not filled/used for six months or longer will, in my opinion, start to develop problems (i.e. clogging). I am using the term clogging in its generic definition: you make a nozzle test/print and you see that you have a bad nozzle test and/or a bad printclog = problem. If you expect to fill a cart for longer than a few years you will need to fill the cart every three or four months if not sooner. I think you would have to also flush the cart at least once a year if you expect to have a cart to last more than five years.
Thank you for the kind words.
To: Emulator
Quote: Maybe we should store spare carts flushed and dry?
The problem with flushing a cart is that you are adding one more variable to the filling equation. With that said I think I will sometime in the near future flush/dry the carts that I do not intend to fill in the foreseeable fortune. If I have six carts of a color and I intend to fill/rotate only three or four carts I will flush/dry the remaining carts. In my opinion flushing is less of a risk than leaving the carts set in the refrigerator for years and then one day you take out the cart and fill the cart and hope you have no problems. Flushing is the lesser of two evils.
When you talk about having to be an expert to spot trouble with a sample of ink I am thinking that you could send the sample to Canon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wonder what type of reply you would receive.
To: barfl2
My opinion about carts that are filled and set aside to be used at a future date is that they are ink bombs. You open the refrigerator door and reach for a cart and you see that the ink has leaked out of the cartoh, joy, oh, joy!!! With that said I can see that a prefilled cart can come in handy if you need to replace a cart and you do not have time to fill a cart. If I prefilled carts I would have to reserve a special spot for them in my refrigerator. While in the frig the carts would have to maintain the same position as they are in the printhead and they would have to be separated from each other. Each cart would have to be wrapped in its own separate plastic bag (or air tight box). Also, it would not be smart to move the carts while you are looking for the plastic container with the broccoli in it. In other words you would have to treat each cart like a little baby. If I did lots of printing I would prefill my carts (little babies or not), but I do not do a lot of printing so I will continue to fill as I go.
barfl2, if you use the isopropyl alcohol on the ink inlets please let us know how it worked out for you.
Thank you.
Like you, I am inclined to reduce the number of rotated carts for each of my colors. I have around six carts for each of my colors. Assuming I rotate the carts out on a monthly basis it would take six months to go through a stock of six carts per color. I think this is too long. I think four carts per color would be better. You would have one in the printer and three waiting to be used. You may have to reduce the number to three. You would need to use trial and error to see what would be the best number.
A used cart that is not filled/used for six months or longer will, in my opinion, start to develop problems (i.e. clogging). I am using the term clogging in its generic definition: you make a nozzle test/print and you see that you have a bad nozzle test and/or a bad printclog = problem. If you expect to fill a cart for longer than a few years you will need to fill the cart every three or four months if not sooner. I think you would have to also flush the cart at least once a year if you expect to have a cart to last more than five years.
Thank you for the kind words.
To: Emulator
Quote: Maybe we should store spare carts flushed and dry?
The problem with flushing a cart is that you are adding one more variable to the filling equation. With that said I think I will sometime in the near future flush/dry the carts that I do not intend to fill in the foreseeable fortune. If I have six carts of a color and I intend to fill/rotate only three or four carts I will flush/dry the remaining carts. In my opinion flushing is less of a risk than leaving the carts set in the refrigerator for years and then one day you take out the cart and fill the cart and hope you have no problems. Flushing is the lesser of two evils.
When you talk about having to be an expert to spot trouble with a sample of ink I am thinking that you could send the sample to Canon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wonder what type of reply you would receive.
To: barfl2
My opinion about carts that are filled and set aside to be used at a future date is that they are ink bombs. You open the refrigerator door and reach for a cart and you see that the ink has leaked out of the cartoh, joy, oh, joy!!! With that said I can see that a prefilled cart can come in handy if you need to replace a cart and you do not have time to fill a cart. If I prefilled carts I would have to reserve a special spot for them in my refrigerator. While in the frig the carts would have to maintain the same position as they are in the printhead and they would have to be separated from each other. Each cart would have to be wrapped in its own separate plastic bag (or air tight box). Also, it would not be smart to move the carts while you are looking for the plastic container with the broccoli in it. In other words you would have to treat each cart like a little baby. If I did lots of printing I would prefill my carts (little babies or not), but I do not do a lot of printing so I will continue to fill as I go.
barfl2, if you use the isopropyl alcohol on the ink inlets please let us know how it worked out for you.
Thank you.
