Sheik Yerbouti

Greetings Ladies and Gentlemen,

I'm replacing my ink lines/bottles on a T-Jet 2.
As I was transferring the ink to their new bottle homes, I notices the white inks, for dark shirts, had some globular gloops at the bottom of the bottles......

Now, I did swish the inks around on a daily, well, almost daily basis. My guess is that the sediment on the bottom is important and I would like to know wether or not I should add what I can to the new bottles or do I get some new ink????

Any tips or tricks?

ArRrG!

Thanks,
Sheik Yebouti

 

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TJet3Pro

Just empty the existing ink back into your main bottle of ink and run hot water in the existing bulk bottle and shake hard. This will loosen and wash out your ink bottle. I do this at the end of every week to keep the sediment out of my bulk system.

If it looks kind of sludgy hot water will break it up and remove it from the bulk system bottle, just shake it hard and rinse it out.

-Mike

 

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Sheik Yerbouti

Thanks,

I was hoping to save the ink and use it in the new bottles. Not dump it down the drain.....

S.Y.

 

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TJet3Pro

On my bulk ink white bottle its normally only about a 1/16th of an inch thats soupy at the bottom, if its alot more than that, just shake it up hard and let it settle, if its still real thick I would maybe contact your supplier as it may be a bad batch.

How much in the bottle seems thick and goopy at the bottom? If it is bad i would immediately run the cleaning solution through your printhead so nothing gets gummed up until you figure out the problem. How old is the white ink?

 

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rushorderprints1

When I see clumps at the bottom of my bottles. I clean the bottle out with hot water, as well as take the ink and put it in a glass then I take a coffee filter and I pour the ink through to make sure that all the clumps etc... are filtered out the ink before I put it back through the bulk system

 

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Sheik Yerbouti

Its only three months old. I don't use it very often, but I do shake them almost daily.....

I just want to transfer whats left into new bottles.
I thought I read that someone used a coffee filter to
filter the ink.

And its really only a little bit in the bottom....

I'm just concerned that its stuff I need in the ink...

 

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TJet3Pro

If you shake it up and its still clumpy, do what rushorder prints suggests. 15.00 worth of "iffy" ink is not worth a 300.00 printhead. You definately do not need that gunk in your system. Filter it out and toss it, if its not alot like you said than its just not worth the risk. Just make sure when you refill your bottles you shake the ink well and at room temperature to make sure all the good stuff is mixed.

 

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Sheik Yerbouti

Success! Thank you guys.

I filtered it and primed the system. The second print to dark came out perfect......

I'm sure I will post about something else in the future.

For a minute there, I thought I would have to poke a hole in someones waste tank line, but, you guys came to my rescue.

Thanks again,
Sheik Yerbouti

 

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