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From: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DeskJet Plus
Message-ID: <15638@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 15 Jul 90 16:35:44 GMT
References: <3486@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
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In article <3486@crash.cts.com> davemad@pnet01.cts.com (Dave Madsen) writes:
>As for injecting your own ink, can you also use India ink or
>Calligrapher's ink?  I have a lot of that laying around just itching to
>be used.  It is also waterproof.
                      ^^^^^^^^^^
     Nononononononononononononononononononono! Bad bad bad! Verrrrrry bad!
     You _must_ use water-soluable ink with inkjets, otherwise the small
amount of drying you get each time you turn the printer off for a few hours
(or days, or whatever) will _permanently_ clog the jets and probably the
ink propulsion mechanism as well. This is what we in "the bidnez" :-) call
a "Bad Thing." It's what Xerox calls a $350 repair (that's how much it would
cost to replace the mechanism on the C150 colour inkjet, one of which I own).
     You can, however, use a suitably high-grade dilute WATER SOLUABLE ink.
(The normal ink provided for use in such printers is dilute. Non-dilute or
concentrated ink is basically a paste and comes in tubes. It's used for block
and printing-press printing.) An ink I've been using with success (thanks to
whoever told me about it - I forget your name, sorry) is Dr. P. H. Martin's
Transparent Watercolours, made and sold by Salis International, Inc
(hopefully, no pun intended.) Their number is 800/843-8293; the colours
to by for the C150 are black, cadmium yellow, magenta, and turquoise. I
don't know how well the non-black colours would translate to your printer,
because I've never used an HP.
    By the way, the only problem you have with reusing ink cartridges that
include their own nozzle assemblies is that you have to start cleaning them
out. This is messy, and made inkjets impractical for a while. I have to give
my C150 a major cleaning every so often to keep print quality acceptable.
The "replace the nozzles every time" approach is a cure for this problem.
                                                      - R'ykandar.
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