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Priming the Chips

It's important to prime the chips before every dispense to ensure that the reagent has moved through the chip to the dispense point, so that you are dispensing liquid and not air. At this point, you should have already designed a dispense (or opened an existing dispense).

Prerequisites

• You have set up the hardware.
• You have designed a dispense.

To prime all of the chips:

• Click the Prime All Inputs button if you want the MANTIS to prime each chip attached to the MANTIS.
  
  

To prime an individual chip:

1. If you want to prime an individual chip, right-click on the reagent in the Device Control panel and select Attach Input to Hand.
2. Click the Manual Prime button if you don’t know how much reagent you need to dispense in order to prime the chip. Once you see a drop of reagent come out of the bottom of the chip, the chip is primed.
   
   OR
   Click the Auto Prime button if you want to prime the chip with the fixed prime amount (as defined in the input options menu).
   
   

You are now ready to execute the dispense!

Related Topics

• Input Control Panel
• Dispense Overview
• Dispensing ROCK MAKER® Crystallization Software Plate Designs
• Dispensing FORMULATOR® Screen Builder Plate Designs

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