"He who marches out of step hears another drum." ~ Ken Kesey
Filmdirect has good gear and product for this. But, what you need to do regardless of whose product you use is fill all those heads' carts up with cleaning solution and flush, flush, flush. You may need to replace the dampers (might not have the right word for these) but it's not very difficult to do. We run our 4800 with 7 carts full of cleaning solution and one with FilmDirect black ink and output from Accurip. Very pleased overall.
you should run black in ALL heads, and change which head you use every so often, and document it. Your rip lets you decide which head to print through.
Hey Zoo, the AccuRIP is supposed to pull from all cartridges equally, so they run down together, but I'm sure you know that. Could you expound upon why you have it set up the way you do? It's pretty interesting...Steve
get use out of all of your cartriages by running black in all of them, your rip can print from any cart and they all get equally used. You decide which cart each week or day or month. Document it and rotate. If you run black in only one cart, what happens if that cart has a problem? Run black in all cartridges and never worry about that. Thats what was recommended to us by the cartriage company. Thats what we do.
Quote from: jasonl on September 08, 2012, 07:59:59 PMget use out of all of your cartriages by running black in all of them, your rip can print from any cart and they all get equally used. You decide which cart each week or day or month. Document it and rotate. If you run black in only one cart, what happens if that cart has a problem? Run black in all cartridges and never worry about that. Thats what was recommended to us by the cartriage company. Thats what we do.Of course your ink company recommends you run all black ink carts even though you are only printing through one of them, they sellin' you ink fool. If the cart has problem? Replace the cart. Heads + dampers are more likely to be a problem here the carts and supply lines are fairly simple and unlikely to fail. Dampers are specific to the head yes but the head assembly is one deal. (I think)The point of our setup is that every time the printer runs one of epson's cleaning routines (which it does automatically on this model to prevent clogs) and just dumps ml of ink into the waste tank, it's mostly dumping cleaning solution.
Just playing with you jasonl, hopefully you're nobody's fool, but when do carts ever go bad? I'm not following the logic. But do what feels good man.