Do you want to save thousands of dollars a year on your film or your ink for your
inkjet printer to produce your films to stick around we'll show you how to
install a CIS get free Epson 1430 coming up welcome back if you're new to the
channel be sure to subscribe I've been waiting to do this review slash install
of the CIS kit because I wanted to just kind of put it through its paces and I
will say that we have saved a lot of money over this past year of having the
CIS kit we were spending a hundred bucks for a hundred pieces of 13 by 19 film
we've reduced that down to 51 cents also we were spending about $1 per print now
we're spending about five cents an eat per print so that comes out to a total
of about 56 cents per film versus two dollars I'm gonna show you how to
install this kit I've been very happy with it which is why I'm sharing this
with you guys oh let's see I filmed this back in
November so without further ado here we are here is the kit itself this
particular kit came with all black ink every single one of these all-black I
think they said something along the lines of doing 2000 prints here is what
is in the box we got some instructions here how to
fill it and then we got some more information there here's a bunch of
little syringes imagined to help frame the system and/or
fill it up here's the world cartridge system here well in cartridges let's go
ahead and install this thing okay so the first thing you need to do is power up
your printer let it go through its emotions and then as soon as it's
finished you want to hit the ink button that way we'll go to the cartridge
replacement position whatever you want to call it unplug the power cord that
will allow you to move the print head back and forth that way we can
remove this door so take your ink cartridges set them aside and toss them
in the garbage recycle them do what you're gonna do with them I save mine
just in case I decided well I want to use them in the future basically I'm
using a screwdriver to pry this left hinge and then the right hinge is gonna
be real pain in the butt to remove it might take you a little bit if you
really don't care about it I mean I wouldn't suggest breaking it off but
just take some time to remove it and you can kind of see here how it comes apart
this little clip I did end up putting back alright so in this part here I'm
basically priming the system and I'm using a thumbtack to remove those little
plastic plugs and that will allow you to suck all the air out of the cartridges
and completely fill them up and then I'm using this Rindge to replace the ink
back into the system now I didn't show me filling up the
system or are the tanks itself because I think that's pretty self-explanatory
okay so this is pretty important you have to move your print head over to the
left-hand side put your cartridges down into their slots that the printhead I
didn't completely lock them in so that way if I need to make some adjustments I
can I found that this is a pretty good position here for this particular the
line holder for the the CSI the tubes whatever you want to call it so this is
where I put it and I'll show you guys hearing a little
bit an updated version of how I currently have it but it's very similar
the only difference is how I run the lines to that particular part I'm
passing with my finger right now so I'll show you that in a little bit but this
is a pretty good start up point here how it is currently set up the only
difference is I did have this bottom part up top so it is kind of looping
down but it does not touch the bottom rollers or the the bottom of the printer
and this setup works pretty well now you do want to keep in mind that as you guys
can see I put my thanks behind my printer and you want to be careful not
to raise those up above the ink cartridges themselves because if you do
set it up towards where your your tanks are above it can leak out because
there's all that pressure forcing it down and then right there that was a
close-up of a little cutout I did one of the the pieces of the printer I cut it
out so that way I can completely close the lid without pitching those off and
then there's the the second piece right there that's kind of holding it down and
at this point I'm just locking those down into their slots you want to make
sure they're secure at this point we're pretty much ready to go you can turn
your printer on and then you will need to do a couple clean cycles and at this
point you know having such an affordable system it's not an issue initially don't
freak out this happened to me if it is saying that it's not recognizing two
cartridges just pull them up some of these systems do have a reset button you
can just hit that but just pull them up just a little bit and then reset them
back down into there so don't freak out if you feel like okay my printers not
recognizing them just pull them up push them back down and then hit the ink
button and it will completely clear same thing goes for when it your printer
thinks that it's out of ink as you'll just pull the whole system up and out or
hit the reset button if you're CIS kit does have a reset button now here I'm
actually doing the head clean you can see how much
wasted ink is coming out and by the way I have a tutorial coming up showing how
to install one of those waste tanks and then last and final step is to install
these filters these vent filters they only go in one way so I cut down a piece
of eight and a half by eleven film from our pieces of film that we normally get
that are 13 by 19 be sure to check our link down in the description it's that
way you can get the film that we are using it's very inexpensive works really
well now let's see how our inexpensive CIS kit works on this inexpensive piece
of film so here's the film at 7:20 and to me looking at it through the line you
still see some light through 10 on the 720 we'll put this on a screen in on the
exposure unit here is the test at my normal settings 1440 by 720 I generally
go with 6 this ink is a little less opaque however I think 8 it doesn't look
too bad there's not too much ink down on 8 9 10 11 12 starts being way too much
you still see the Sun through a little bit but you also see that it's running
off now for the real test how will it hold up in blocking UV light
for our film for screen printing let's see how it does ok I have okay I
have some assorted test prints ready to go and we'll see what does the best as
far as the drop waitlet and then what setting tends to work the best for doing
half tones as well okay I ganged up as many as I could on the screen let's go
ahead and expose this
okay so here are the results this was the this is a 720 by 720 she
can see 1 through 3 really didn't wash out we flip this around we have our 1440
by 720 washed out really well from 2 on up to 15 however the test that I am
interested in this one is at a 6 into 1440 may be hard to see there's some of
those 95% dots great however coming down into the fives it's kind of squatching
very pattern like here is the 12 setting for the 720 by 720 not all the 5% dots
are there everything else looks great 90 is a little iffy 95 partly holding onto
the one I think that came out the best was oddly enough the one that was set at
11 for 720 by 720 there's more be 95% dots everything else is looking pretty
solid and then actually you know what it's
very squatching the flies here as well every down well so twelve this one seems
to look the best this guy if you own those 95% dots but maybe it could expose
it a little longer to get some of those back but there's more of the 5% dots
which is quite peculiar so I think I'm going to go with the 720 setting at 12
you so that will help speed up my printouts and don't get the best quality
possible-- if you're new to this channel be sure to subscribe don't miss out on
our video showing how to install a waste tank which will also save you some money
because you can take that wasted ink from your CIS kit and put that right
back into those tanks I hope this will help you save money on your film output
until next time guys we will see you later