Re: Frugal tip for ink jet printer owners

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That I can't believe.
I scrapped my old HP Deskjet in favor of a Canon i960.
Ink refills are a third of the cost (tanks too,  not just bulk ink).

Those tricolor cartridges are the pits,  even if you refill them.
They are easy to overfill,  then they're ruined (colors get mixed).
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HINT' refill the tank before it completely runs out.
I stick to just re-filling the black.

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 On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 04:45:58 -0700, Crusader george


That's not my main problem.
It's knowing when to stop adding ink,  or how much to add,
because of trying to guess how much ink is in each
section of the cartridge.

Canon ink tanks are almost transparent,  so you can SEE how empty they
are.  Also,  the Canon system is more accurate in reporting ink
levels.

The HP system tries to compute it by number of lines/pages printed.
Lexmark is just as bad,  in that regard,  if you're lucky enough
to have the old ones without imbedded "smart chips".  else,  you have
to hack the drivers.

FWIW:  I try to never run cartridges dry,  because it can burn up the
pring head.  HP carts have integral print heads,  so no matter,  but
Canon models with Think Tanks don't  and a new print head is
expensive.  So that is ONE drawback with Canon's.  :-)





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 The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining
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 On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 16:52:38 -0700, ~^Johnny^~


However, I find that I can often buy a new Canon printer with the
latest, greatest features for less than the replacement print head for
the old one.

For example, the replacement print head for my last Canon inkjet
printer would have been US$70 (+SH).  A brand new replacement Canon
printer with better performance and features, and with a complement of
full factory ink cartridges installed was US$50 (incl. SH).  A new set
of factory ink cartridges (1 black, 3 color tanks) for the latter is
US$50 (incl. SH).

Go figure.

Dennis (evil)
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The honest man is the one who realizes that he cannot
consume more, in his lifetime, than he produces.

 Dennis wrote:

It's really easy.  They sucker you in on the cheap printer price and
make it back on all the ink cartridges you end up using.