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(From: Roy (royf@iname.com).)
The people who talk about clogging, etc. must have never seen a BJC-620, in which the printhead and ink tanks
are separate. I’ve had a 620 for about 16 months and having printed almost nothing on it (have a laser for most
needs) have noticed that the ink tanks last about 5 months. My third set of cartridges at $40 per set have just
recently gone dry. (Actually only the color ones are dry. The larger black one lasts longer.) I foolishly threw
away the first set of empties, but I still have two sets. I decided that I’ve sent enough money to Canon and
searched the web for a more economical solution. What I found was Bob Nedved and his re.ink.kit refill kit at:

Re Ink Kit Home Page.

where, for $74.50 I got an amount of bulk ink equivalent to about $800 worth of new cartridges. Included also
are 4 syringes and 4 small screws. The procedure is to make a small hole in each tank tank and seal it with a
screw. To refill, you remove the screw, inject a few cc of ink, replace the screw, and clean the syringe with a
little alcohol or distilled water. Filling the first cartridge was a little messy, but once you get the hang of
it, it’s a snap. The kit doesn’t completely eliminate buying new tanks, because the tanks themselves eventually
need to be replaced, but it sure does cut the annual maintenance cost, whether you only use the printer a little
or if you use it a lot.

(From: Bill Sloman (sloman@sci.kun.nl).)

>> Buy Epson Ink Cartridges - CLICK HERE

Epson uses a piezo-electric print head, and an alcohol-based ink. If you don’t like paying for Epson’s ink
cartridges, use Pelikan’s (I think that is the brand I use - it is certainly one of the old-fashioned ink
manufacturers). They seem to use a higher molecular weight alcohol than Epson, so the cartridges last me more
like six months than three in the old (1993) Epson Stylus Q800.

>> Buy HP Ink Cartridges - CLICK HERE

HP and Canon use a water-based ink, that is actually heated to boiling in the print-head to spit out droplets -
so the print head corrodes rapidly, which is why their “ink cartridges” contain an new print-head and only about
15 ml ink, as much as the print-head can reliably spit out.

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(From: Tony Hardman (AHED_CIJ@f54×19.demon.co.uk).)

There is a US publication called ‘The Hard Copy OBSERVER’ from Lyra Research Inc. Tel: (617) 322-0708.

This discusses the latest technologies and who does what. It may not cover the print head technology very much but is a good read if you are into print technology in general.

There are many companies that sell variable print processes. One I have heard of is RALFLATAC. They do a brochure that does an excellent brief of most technologies available for printing. They have UK (and many other sites in europe) and US sites. UK Tel 01732-583661, US Tel (704) 684-3931.

I have no idea if you can easily get copies of either publication from them so here goes a very very brief description.

Ink jet printing has two main types, continuous ink jet (CIJ) and impulse printing (DOD) (drop on demand). Each of these can be a single jet, or an array of jets.

* CIJ as a single jet is used on product identification (sell by dates, serial numbers) on high speed industrial applications.

CIJ is a continuous jet of ink cycling round a system and occasionally (when required) a drop is deflected out of the stream onto the paper. The stream is modulated to break it into a consistent drop size. The deflection works like the beam on an oscilloscope. If you charge 1 drop and pass it between two high voltage plates it is deflected. This system also requires cunning mechanics, but the support electronics is much more complex, and probably one of the reasons for its performance limitations being not up to what you might expect. The calculations of the aerodynamics of drops being deflected is no small task, even if look up tables are used.

* DOD is often an array of small jets used on desk top printers.

DOD works in principal like an old Dot Matrix pin printer. Instead of firing a pin at a ribbon, a drop of ink is fired at the paper. The drop is fired by either a piezo crystal squeezing the ink out of a small tube, or by boiling the ink and the vapor forces the ink out of the chamber. The key to both of these processes is in the mechanical design of very small components if 300 dpi is required. The control electronics is a bit cunning, but I figure it is the easy bit.

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Yes, it’s true if you were born on 2/29 of the leap year. You only get to celebrate about once every 4 years on your actual birth day.

2/29 only comes around every 4 years. I was not born on this day. But, out of my curiosity, I wonder how many people were born on this day and how do they celebrate their birth day. In the non-leap year, February only has 28 days. If they celebrate on 2/28, it’s a day before than the actual birth day. If they celebrate on 3/1, it’s a day after their actual birth day. Is it funny?

I threw out this topic here was to find out if I could get any comment from the Leap-Year babies and how they normally celebrate their birth day.

Today, the long waiting InkJetOffice’s official forum site (http://forum.inkjetoffice.com) has finally launched, a printer cartridge community site has been asked by many of our customers and friends. It’s just like many forums out there on the net. Instead , we mainly focus on the printer and cartridge related topics. However, other topics are also welcomed.

Based on our survey, our customers who shop for printer cartridges also like to find out other stuff like printer cartridge tips, usage and other issues are totally not related to the printer cartridge. As a result, we featured several other forums (Advertisement, Development and Miscellaneous) due to high demands to better serve our customers. If you find other needs, please feel free to post your recommendations to the “Suggestion” forum under the “Help Desk” or simply email us at (CustomerService@InkJetOffice.com).

Please drop by and have fun! See you all there in our printer cartridge forum.

The priming station of a typical ink-jet printer (e.g., HP DeskJet 500C) includes a rubber seal (’boot’) and small pump to actually suck on the end of the print cartridge to free up nozzles (there are 50 or more in a typical print cartridge) that have dried up or become clogged. It may fire all the nozzles at some point during this process as well. It also includes rubber ‘flappers’ which the end of the cartridge pass over to wipe off excess ink.

Priming and cleaning are normally done automatically upon power-on and possibly between pages. However, additional cycles may be needed at times.

With the water based ink, even if the printer is powered off properly which seats the cartridge(s) on a rubber seal, some evaporation occurs so priming will often be needed after it sits idle for a while. Note: Don’t kill power to an ink-jet printer as soon as your printout pops free - it needs to position the print head and cartridge(s) on the rubber boots. Wait until the print head stops moving and clunking. Some (older) printers don’t even have a seal in which case letting it sit idle is even more likely to result in problems.

If there has been ink spilled into the priming area, it may clog up the little hose connecting the priming station to the pump - I have used a wooden toothpick to clear the hole though this may be risky if it should break off. With care, a wire rounded off at the end so as not to puncture the tubing can also be used. Complete disassembly and washing of the parts is probably the best but is probably a pain. Search below for great deals on all of your printing needs, including printer cartridges, toner cartridges, ink refill kits, cleaning cartridges, printer paper, and much more.

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Radio station AM810 and AM680 have become part of my daily life since I started working in Silicon Valley several years ago. I listen to AM810 in the morning when I go to my office and listen to AM680 in the evening when I drive back home daily Monday through Friday.

Both of them have very good talk show programs and take calls from the listerners. Both focus on the daily domestic hot topics as well as the international news. But, most of the time, they talk more on the domestic and local news. I believe everyone should know what is the polical hot topic right now; the presidential primary. However, today, I don’t plan to write anything about the presidential primary. It’s a too big of topic for a little citizen like me. I may write something about it when I’m in good mood. Who knows.

Today, I want to use this space to thanks the 2 radio stations who have been with me for the past serveral years and continue to be in the future many many years to come. I’ve learned a lot by listening to them. I get to know all the daily top news without spending extra time reading myself(btw, I don’t have extra time reading news due to my busy schedule). In addition, it makes my boring commute hours more meaningful and interesting especially when I stuck in traffic or in a bad day. I’m a big fan of both stations. Thank you, AM810 and AM680.

(From: John Nagle (nagle@netcom.com).)

The original ink jet printer of this type was the Teletype Inktronic, which introduced the concept of video-type distortions to printing. It appeared around 1970, and was so bad nobody tried again for years.

(From: Tony Hardman (AHED_CIJ@f54×19.demon.co.uk).)

I guess that is why it was used in industrial applications I guess. Were the ‘video-type distortions’ a deliberate feature or just a coincidence of how they turned out?

Who are/were Inktronic???(apologies to anyone connected with them) I guess that may have been spin off development from some work contracted out by IBM, but it was so….?? (costly/low res/unreliable - choose one) they lost interest. Although one of the very early machines still runs well on a textile mill. It had a large number of jets side by side, and may be multi color too. I’ve only seen the patents so don’t know exactly what it looks like.

I thought original ink jet printer was a chart recorder developed in the last century. It was just a nozzle on deflection mechanism, and was not modulated so it was always printing. It was a lighter mechanism than actually trying to move a pen and so had some performance advantages over other technology available at the time…

The same reason CIJ still sells world wide, even when high resolution DOD is biting at its heals.

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Today, I found a site review for InkJetOffice.com posted in http://post-reviews.blogspot.com/, thought would be beneficial to everyone in the company and our customers. So, I would like to copy and paste it here in the blog to share with everyone.

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Well I don’t know whether this store is number 1 in America or not, one thing I’m sure that this store has a lot collection of printer cartridge and other products related to printer….with cheap price. Aside of the price, this store also has a 1 year free purchase risk free program so whenever you didn’t satisfy with the product you buy, just return to them and get a full refund, shipping free. How good is that.

The site load fast and has a simple layout with images on every product. The navigations are superb, you can browse the collection very easy. They sort the collection by printer, model and by price. The downside is this store doesn’t provide contact details like address or phone number, only email.

Overall Good site and I’m impressed with the navigation and the collection. To build more trust with new customer, this site need to put its contact details.

Here is the link again in case you need a cheap printer cartridge :
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