We have 4 
> continuous ink systems on the printers, that seems to be working 
better 
> than the print cartridges and certainly less expensive. 
> Trying to keep the colors consisitant on these printers has been a 
huge 
> challenge.Every time we think we have it all figured out, we find 
out 
> we don't. 
>    1. We always align the printheads to see if any printheads are 
> malfuntioning. We check for streaks or white spaces in the test 
sheet. 
>    2. If there are some streaks or white spaces we print a purge 
test 
> for each ink color to see if it is streaking or printing solid 
> consistant color.
>    Today the purge test was printing solid boxes of color on the 
> magenta, but the printhead test showed some white spaces in the 
test 
> sheet and will not produce a check mark after 3 tests.
>     Now I am baffled. Any ideas?

You're in a completely different game using CIS on DJ's, way outside 
of my experience base.  However, if the test print shows white 
streaks, my guess would be a bad printhead.

Richard Southworth




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