Air/Foam within Cartridge

Symptoms:

• My Permaflow has been working fine for 6 months, and then it stopped working.
• I have to run many cleaning cycles every day before using printer.
• I can't get a good nozzle pattern.
• I start with a good nozzle pattern, but the print breaks up on first or second page.
• I have lost one of my colours (usually black).
• I lifted up the cartridges and now I can't get it going again.

Solution:
Foamy ink inside the cartridge is the cause of all of the above symptoms. It gradually builds up and needs to be flushed out about every 6 months. The flushing procedure is not difficult. After the ink foam is flushed out, the system returns to normal.
Lifting the cartridges will also create a build up of ink foam inside the cartridge. Original Epson cartridges also suffers from this problem.
To bring your printer back to normal, follow these steps...

• Remove the PermaFlow Cartridges from the printer by gripping the surrounding top edge of the cartridge as you need to avoid squeezing its sides.
• After removing, you will need to use the 10cc syringe - remove the end attachment (cap) and locate the PermaFlow Winged Filling Adapter from your spares box.
• Attach the winged adapter to the syringe. Insert the adapter into the bottom of the cartridge, and pull back slowly. This will draw ink from the bottle, through the tubes, into the cartridge and then into the syringe. Make sure you have plenty of ink in the bottles to fill the syringe. You do not want to pull air into the cartridge, as this will cause further problems.
• The ink that appears in the syringe will have foam or air bubbles in it. This is usually the root cause of the problem. The printer will not print foamy ink or ink that has air bubbles in it. You will need to get the foamy ink out of the cartridge.
• Unscrew the correct ink bottle and dump the ink from the syringe back into the correct reservoir bottle from where it came. There should be no loss of ink doing this procedure. The foamy part of the ink will break down into liquid in a short time. Put the top back on.
• Then draw another syringe full of ink from the cartridge (same colour). Dump it into the correct reservoir bottle. Keep doing this until the ink that comes out is free of any foam or air bubbles. We recommened to do 50cc of ink to achieve this. In other words, 5 syringes fulls using the 10 cc syringe or about 1 syringe full using the 60 cc syringe. As you approach 50 cc, you should see less and less foam in your syringe. You will always get a little foam, especially if you pull hard and fast on the syringe. So do this process slowly.

If necessary, repeat the process for all chambers or colours in the cartridge. 
Be sure to wash out the syringe and winged fill adapter with warm water between each colour.

Run cleaning cycles in groups of 3 until you get a good nozzle check. Print a few copies of our purge pages after 3 cleaning cycles. This should correct the problem. If it doesn't, then let it rest over night, and try to print a nozzle pattern in the morning.