Air in the Injector

Symptoms:

• My Eco-Flo has been working fine and is not working now.
• I have to run many cleaning cycles every day before using my printer.
• I can't get a good nozzle pattern.
• I have lost one of my colours.

Solution:
Foamy ink inside the injector and head maybe the cause of all of the above symptoms. It can gradually build as air travels from the back of the printer into the head and up the injector. The flushing procedure is not difficult and can be performed by the simple process below.

Lifting the injectors will also create a build up of ink foam inside the injector. Original Epson cartridges also suffers from this problem.
To bring your printer back to normal, follow these steps...

• Firstly clamp off the problematic tube line with the white tube clip. Ensure that you park the head in its ink change position by pressing the ink drop button on the front panel of the printer. Unclip the grey tube clip that is positioned on the right hand side of the printer body and move the ribbon of tubes gently towards the back allowing you to open the injector lid, please refer to the PermaJet Eco-Flo instruction manual if you are unsure. Now with the removal tool insert this into the available hole on the top surface of the injector and pull the injector out from the head gently. Hold the injector that you have removed 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 with the Winged Adapter that should be on the end piece of the syringe from your spares box.
• Attach the winged adapter to the syringe if this has been seperated. Insert the adapter NO MORE THAN 3mm into the bottom of the injector O Ring section, and pull back very slowly. This will draw ink from the bottle, through the tubes, into the injector 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 be foamy. This is usually the root cause of the problem. The printer will not print foamy ink. You will need to fill one syringe full of foamy ink out of the injector. When you have filled a syringe full, DO NOT remove the syringe from the O Ring and at this stage clamp the correct tube line first with the white clip and then remove the syringe and wing adaptor from the base of the injector. 
• 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 ink will break down into liquid in a short time. Put the top partially back on and
• Then draw another syringe full of ink from the injector (same colour) making sure you unclamp and clamp as per above. Dump the correct ink back into the reservoir bottle. We recommened to do 50cc of ink to achieve this. In other words, 5 syringes fulls using the 10 cc syringe. You will always get a little foam, especially if you pull hard and fast on the syringe. So do this process slowly.
• Run cleaning cycles in groups of 2 until you get a good nozzle check. Print a few copies of our purge pages after 3 cleaning cycles. This should correct the problem.

IMPORTANT: If you are not using the printer for more than 3 days we would recommend that you clamp off all the injector lines as it is not advisable to let your printer sit idle for long periods of time without actually printing something. In general, we suggest that if you are not going to print for 3 or more days or are going away on a holiday, then clamp off each ink with the white tube clamps. On your return, release them before turning the printer back on - this action prevents any ink moving forward or backwards in the tubes whilst not in use and eliminates the need for any wasteful head cleaning.