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Yeah, that's more economical, although the new printers come with starter cartridges that are often 30-40% capacity of a normal one.
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Even then, purely from a cost perspective, it still makes more sense to buy a whole new printer.
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and they wonder why we're heading for an environmental crisis. Sheesh.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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You can place that blame squarely on the printer manufacturers.
Still that doesn't mean the printer is headed for the scrap heap. You can still sell it (and make back a few bucks in the process), or give it away.
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Did that at home, but buy an extra set of cartridges as the ones you get with the darn things tend to be sample size only!
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Rubbing alcohol? What the hell is that, I want some!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Allow me to rephrase, isopropyl alcohol.
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Oh my goodness the timing. I'm keeping an eye out for a printer this week because this same thing happens to me over and over.
I have some super cheap HP printer where the heads are permanently affixed to the gantry inside and cannot be accessed without ripping the printer apart.
Anyone know about these 'LaserJet' printers? Like this one? [^]
Is LaserJet just a fancy copyrighted name for Laser?
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Quote: Is LaserJet just a fancy copyrighted name for Laser?
In this case, yes - the link starts talking about toner so it's not an inkjet.
I prefer the Epson inkjets: the heads aren't part of the cartridge in the same way HP ones are so the cartridges are cheaper.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yes, but be careful with the Epson printers. I purchased one of those All-In-One Epson inkjet printers and the cartridge dried out and damaged the print head. The printer was useless at that point. Epson stated that the print head had to be replaced and it was gong to be more than the initial cost of the printer.
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Yeah, they use a piezo head technology: http://www.therecycler.com/posts/epson-reveals-secrets-behind-development-of-micro-piezo-technology/[^] which is similar in many ways to the shared wall piezo from Xaar I used to use. And if you gum them up good and proper you can't clean them properly without damage - the droplet volume is controllable between 30 and 80 picolitres which means that the holes and tubes are really narrow and easy to damage. Very, very reliable in normal use though.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I agree. I think the Epson printer with JSOP's solution will make a good combo. I'm thinking about modifying his solution into a Windows multi-threaded service to schedule maintenance for several printers at one time. I have several inkjets at home that can benefit from it. Maybe I'll try to add the test print functionality to it as well and have that as an option for scheduling.
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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I wrote a program that exercises an inkjet. All you gotta do is set up a scheduled task, and let it go. It even uses the same sheet of paper over and over (as long as you put it back in the paper tray until the sheet is full).
Here's the CodeProject article:
Keep Your InkJet Print Head Clean[^]
BTW, someone posted in the article's comments about a better way to clean your print heads than even running this program.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 6-Oct-16 14:14pm.
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JSOP to the rescue!  
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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And downloaded!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Look at the comment about physically cleaning. I think it's better than periodically running ink through the heads.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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My company builds commercial ink-jet printing systems. You would not believe the amount of effort that goes into keeping heads clean and running defect-free.
Of course, when our customers have paid $2.5M for one of these suckers, they do have certain expectations  ...
Software Zen: delete this;
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I hate to say it, but, "You told you so!" 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Are mathematicians reluctant to cosine a loan?
(Sorry it's late, I've been busy)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Is that a sin you went on a tangent?
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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It depends if they are running some sort of angle.
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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OG, have you been drinking and deriving again?
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When combined with yesterday's TotD, yup!
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As long as it doesnt devide the forum users
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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Not if you bribe them with pi.
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