UPDATE for all those interested/people from the future who may stumble upon this. How's the future? how'd we do with Covid-19?
So I did a couple things, some I had already done I did again and some new things but I finally got a near perfect nozzle test.
1. I manually "primed" the problem ink...
Well that was a wild adventure.
Your ink charge idea certainly worked in running the ink and getting rid of the bubbles I could see.
Caveat: It started blowing through my ink like crazy! I had to pull the plug and read instructions online on how to get it to stop the initial charge, but not...
Update: I think i really stepped in it now.
I unhooked everything to check on/change the light cyan damper. In the process, one of the magentas and one the blacks was intermittently dripping, causing a real mess. I drew ink through the light cyan and seemed to fill up the tube. As I went to...
So i went ahead and swapped the Light Cyan for another pretty full cart and got no change.
Then I did what I was trying to avoid, which is unhook the dampers and draw the ink out with a syringe. Seemed to work fine but during this I noticed there were definitely bubbles along the line. Also the...
Unfortunately I did this already, quite a few "purge files" and have not really gotten anywhere. If it were indeed air in the ink line, would drawing it with a syringe perhaps do something?
Hi. I've dealt with/am dealing with similar problems but with a 9600 instead of 7600, which are identical minus the print size.
A couple insights ive learned:
1. Change the dampers, all of them. They're cheap and after so many years are probably not working properly. these are the ones i...