4900 help

[jesterapparel]

Bought a used 4900.  Got  Accurip (printer has all black cartridges) and did a print.  Had some streaks.  Did a nossle check and only 4 of the 10 heads work.  Did manual cleanings and right now I have 6 heads printing and one is showing life.  Any tips or should I just keep doing manual cleans and cross my fingers?

Other questions.

Do you guys keep it on 24/7?
Where do you buy ink at for a good price.?

The thing is a beast.  I love it even though 4 heads right now don't print.

[JBLUE]

No need to print on all the heads with black. I use one head on my 4900 and it is as dark as using several when I had Accurip. Your just going to have to do a deep power clean. They will come back.

Buy refillable bulk ink tanks. Cheapest way to keep that baby running.

[jesterapparel]

No need to print on all the heads with black. I use one head on my 4900 and it is as dark as using several when I had Accurip. Your just going to have to do a deep power clean. They will come back.

Buy refillable bulk ink tanks. Cheapest way to keep that baby running.

You have a source?

[NoDirectionNick]

Bought a used 4900.  Got  Accurip (printer has all black cartridges) and did a print.  Had some streaks.  Did a nossle check and only 4 of the 10 heads work.  Did manual cleanings and right now I have 6 heads printing and one is showing life.  Any tips or should I just keep doing manual cleans and cross my fingers?

Other questions.

Do you guys keep it on 24/7?
Where do you buy ink at for a good price.?

The thing is a beast.  I love it even though 4 heads right now don't print.

The 4900 powers down when not in use after a certain length of time. It is definitely a beast! Love it.

[dirkdiggler]

running all black in your 4900 will shorten your printers life by as much as 7 years.  I learned the hard way.  I have 3 here and 2 still in the box.  Problems only came after about a year of using all black.  My Opinion.

[jesterapparel]

running all black in your 4900 will shorten your printers life by as much as 7 years.  I learned the hard way.  I have 3 here and 2 still in the box.  Problems only came after about a year of using all black.  My Opinion.

Is there a way to refill the black max cartridge yourself with a chip resetter?
Right now I have 6 working and I believe 7 because one was working great but I think it ran out of ink.
Other ones are no longer showing any signs of life.

I printed a film and it looks great.  Can I just use these 7 heads and that's?  Will I need a chip resetter if I do that?

[dirkdiggler]

if you touch both the little metal tabs on the cartridge with a screwdriver at the same time, it resets.  No chip resetter needed.  Yes you can use the heads that work, but eventually they will all clog.  Google the windex trick for cleaning heads, it will unstop some of the dead ones and prolongs the life of the printer for a while.

[jesterapparel]

if you touch both the little metal tabs on the cartridge with a screwdriver at the same time, it resets.  No chip resetter needed.  Yes you can use the heads that work, but eventually they will all clog.  Google the windex trick for cleaning heads, it will unstop some of the dead ones and prolongs the life of the printer for a while.

Trying the windex thing.

Does any one know a good place to get ink cartridges that can be filled?

[JBLUE]

Parmale Screen Process supply is where I got mine out here on the West Coast.

[blue moon]

switch to one head only and use clear in the rest. Not sure if that will cause damage to the clogged heads, but it might work.

For ink, I strongly recommend Chromaline AccuInk.

we bought the empty cartridges and cleaning solution at macroenter.com.

pierre

[JBLUE]

I am not running clear ink in all of mine because I still can print using the CMYK channels for art comps or other large format printing. I have the sublimation ink sitting here to put it in another 4 channels so I will be able to print film, CMYK regular printing, and sublimation printing all out of the same printer.

[mk162]

pierre, do you mean microcenter?

[blue moon]

pierre, do you mean microcenter?

nope, macroenter
http://www.macroenter.com/

pierre

[mk162]

huh, google keeps changing my search to microcenter...that makes it hard to get found.

[jesterapparel]

Ok, just lost another head doing windex thing.  Going backwards now.  I'm thinking of buying this http://shopping.netsuite.com/s.nl/c.362672/it.A/id.5736/.f?sc=18&category=68404
With there flushing stuff inside them.

Right now I'm printing with 6 heads with the other four turned off in Accurip.  Would like to get all of them working but maybe I should just give up and print with the 6 I have.