"leak" in new style IJM carts (for the Epson 1430)

InkjetMall Customer Support Printer Maintenance & Cartridges
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The first photo shows the leaks, in the Cyan cartridge, and the second photo in the Magenta cart. (I’m using an all black inkset, varying from all black to about 6%). These newer carts have no plug for the air vent, the hole is too small. I thought maybe I could tape over the vent, see third photo, and left it over night. It turned out the next day there was no additional leakage.

Maybe I don’t have a leak…but I don’t recall anything in the instructions about taping the vent.

Any comments would be appreciated, thank you.

Oops… how can I attach photos?

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I should explain something. I would not tape over the vent hole when printing. I had the printing carts out so I could put Piezograph in a set of cleaning carts in the printer for storage. I plan to run a nozzle check every so often. The carts containing printing ink were to be stored in the plastic box with lid, and that’s when I began getting “leaks” in a couple of the carts.