Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/04

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Subject: [Leica] Replacement for the C86 printer withUltratone (carbon)inks
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Wed Oct 4 18:13:30 2006
References: <DC4B73A4105FCE4FAE0CEF799BF84B36013F1BBB@case-email> <m264ezpwj9.fsf@whitefish.local>

The pigment inks will clog but running my 1270 once or twice a week 
seems to be enough.

Walt

Dave Mason wrote:

>"David Rodgers" <drodgers@casefarms.com> writes:
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>>Thanks for the info. A couple of years back I used MIS color pigment
>>inks in a 1200. I had a lot of issues with clogging. I don't know which
>>was worse, wasted time or wasted ink. Clogging I've noticed seems to be
>>hit and miss. Some people/printers have problems, some very little. My
>>HP never clogged. Ink was expensive, though. Maybe there's a
>>correlation. 
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>I had the 1280 and MIS inks for a while and had loads of clogging
>issues. If you don't print *every day* with that combination it will
>clog. Well, I like printing fine but not every day. 
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>I only use Epson inks in the 1280 now and it no longer clogs. For B&W
>I moved to the C86 with the MIS EZ cartridges and have had no problems
>at all with great results. I wish they could figure out as cheap and
>easy a package for a bit larger printing though.
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>Dave
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In reply to: Message from drodgers at casefarms.com (David Rodgers) ([Leica] Replacement for the C86 printer withUltratone (carbon)inks)
Message from leica at dmason.net (Dave Mason) ([Leica] Replacement for the C86 printer withUltratone (carbon)inks)