Text 59715, 44 rader
Skriven 2010-01-27 17:19:24 av Sean Dennis (1:18/200)
  Kommentar till text 59683 av TOM WALKER (1:123/140)
Ärende: Ink +
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Hello, TOM.

Tuesday January 26 2010 at 07:40, you wrote to AUGUST ABOLINS:

 TW> since Ink sales are the MAJOR prifit source in the printer divisions
 TW> they have purposely designed the cartridges to be throwaway. HP is
 TW> particualrly bad because the ink nozzles are part of the cartridge.
 TW> With printers where to nozzles are part of the printer like hte epson
 TW> you should to be able to get more refills. Unles of course they are
 TW> usoing electronic trickery to make the printer rejuct any refilled
 TW> cartridge.

As someone who used to work as an inkjet refill technician, let me say this
about that. :)

What is happening is that not only are printer manufacturers using "electronic
trickery" to make it impossible to refill a cartridge, they are also sabatoging
the ink.  The inks are becoming more and more bizarre and full of really
unnecessary things so that it's nearly impossible to reverse engineer the ink.

Myself?  I am no longer buying inkjet printers.  We now have a HP LaserJet 1320
(monochrome and easy to professionally refill; I don't recommend doing laser
cartridges at home since HPs have to be rebuilt with new parts every time) and
my good old Panasonic KX-P2324 (132 column, 24-pin dot-matrix).

My Epson Artisan 800's cartridges (all six of them) cannot be remanufactured
and I'm not spending $90 a pop every time that thing needs ink.  Also, Epson
cartridges dry out quickly because of their design.  If you remove an Epson
cartridge while it's being used (plugged into the printer), you stand a high
chance of ruining that cartridge because Epson printer cartridges work on
vacuum that can only be kept if the cartridge is left in there for its entire
working life.

Sad, isn't?  But that's how the printer manufacturers make money: give away the
printer, kill ya on the ink.

Later,
Sean

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