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From: barleben@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Friedrich Barleben)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: HP DeskJet  from black ink  to  colored ink
Message-ID: <1990Sep6.135043.10577@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
Date: 6 Sep 90 13:50:43 GMT
References: <90.248.11:02:52@ira.uka.de>
Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
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s_loewer writes:

>   Hello DeskJet Users !

>   I want to exchange some experiences in re-inking and colorizing my
>   DeskJet  ink cartridges.

>   First I got soon some problems with a cartridge re-inked with
>   'Black Pelikan' ink. You can get this ink easily in almost any
>   shop in germany for less money. After the cartridge was empty
>   I filled it up  with that ink. But soon some of the ink holes were dead.
>   The prime button made things a litter better, but not perfect.
>   Then I simply blew with high presure into cartridge through the small
>   hole on the top, so that the ink dripped out at the bottom. Afterwards
>   the cartridge worked nearly fine again.
>   So  was it about reinking a completely empty cartridge ?

>   Another point is to fill another color (not black) in an old (black)
>   cartridge.  The problem is to clear the old black cartridge in order
>   to get bright color later.
>   Does anyone have got experience in colorizing black cartridges ?
>   Does anyone had opened an old cartridge ?


I have been using the black Pelikan ink without any problems for 2 months
now with my DeskWriter. 3 weeks ago I tried refilling an almost empty
cartridge with green Pelikan 4001 ink. Some 20 to 30 greenish-black
printouts later everything looked perfectly green. I found that by simply
exchanging cartridges and refeeding the same sheet of paper several times to
the printer one can get beautiful looking 2 coulor printouts.

Ink cartridges that have not been used for some time may not work
immediately. You may have to reopen some of the tiny ink-holes on the bottom
of the cartridge. I tried wetting the "nose" of the cartridge with some ink,
carefully wiping it with a kleenex and using the prime button repeatedly. So
far this always worked although there is of course no guarantee that one can
really refill those cartridges several times with Pelikan ink and still get
a perfect printout. It may at some point become impossible to reopen "dead"
ink-holes.  
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Fiete Barleben                            Schaenzlestrasse 1                                                     Institut fuer Biologie III                
                                    D-7800 Freiburg, Germany               
Mail:                       barleben@ruf.uni-freiburg.dpe.de                
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Fiete Barleben                             Schaenzlestrasse 1
                                   Institut fuer Biologie III
                                     D-7800 Freiburg, Germany
Mail:                        barleben@ruf.uni-freiburg.dpe.de