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From: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
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Subject: Re: HELP request: Ink refills for ink jet printers for Amiga
Message-ID: <15948@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 5 Sep 90 20:33:12 GMT
References: <33316@cup.portal.com> <15885@s.ms.uky.edu> <1990Sep5.080242.21793@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <1990Sep5.080242.21793@agate.berkeley.edu> vincelee@tornado.Berkeley.EDU (Vincent H. Lee) writes:
>PH martins watercolors are not printing inks but watercolor paint particles
>suspended in water.  Thus, they WILL CLOG up your printer if you are not
>very careful to clean out all the ink from your printer every time you
>use it.  The Xerox 4020 has an automatic cleaning cycle, but I don't think
>the Diablo C150 did--one reason the model is discontinued.  
     The C150 does have an ink-purge cycle which executes every time you
shut the printer down. Runs for a couple of seconds, tops, but does clear
the ink jets.
     I've been using Martin's for a few months and have actually had to
do significantly _less_ cleaning when them than with the original Xerox
inks. (For example, I printed a particular set of graphics I generate
every so often all the way through with Martin's, without needing to
stop and reclean once. I've _never_ been able to do that using Xerox's
inks.)
                                                          - R'ykandar.
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