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To: Joe NYC who wrote (77830)	4/20/2002 9:52:43 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Jozef, There is a guerilla war going on against the replacement ink makers. Ink = monster cash cow, and the printer makers feel that the other fake inkmakers are treading on motherhood, Apple Pie and the American flag. Newest tech is internal chips in the print head that meter useage and kill themselves after one tankful has gone empty. All makers will go this route soon as it gives a lock on replacement cartridges. That chip is the driver bubble driver, when it suicides = cartridge is toast. A lot depends on the volume. If you print a few pages per day you can refill most cartridges with no terminator mechanism quite a number of times. If you let them dry out it takes work and the channels never come all the way clear(I think they put some kind of polymer in there so that when it dries it is like paint.....cross linked and it will not wash out, although a mild alkali like household ammonia might free some that are intractable to alcohol since the ammonia ion is quite small and penetrates the semi cured 'paint', and makes it amenable to flushing) I have a good old laserjet 5 that is an iron horse and if I need color I have a friend who uses a 1200 DPI Epson photoprinter daily. I also have a dried out printer graveyard....I cannot quite bring myself to toss them, nor can i justify buying a set of cartridges for a few prints. Color lasers are OK, but I have so little need. There are people who sell replacement color cartridges for the HP in the three primary colors. That allows you to print color with sequential printing under quark or photoshop, but the registration is poor as they were never built for that task. 25 DPI in 3 color mode + 1 black is about all you can get out of them. OK for short brochures with trapped color and little halftoning. But I do not want to do that either. Color lasers are around $500 bottom end now, but even at that price I do not need one. Bill.

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