Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!rsarin From: rsarin@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Raman K. Sarin) Subject: Re: Stylewriter / Deskwriter Message-ID: Nntp-Posting-Host: aix01srv.aix.rpi.edu Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY References: <226252.2812BC57@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> <3011@n-kulcs.cs.kuleuven.ac.be> <17150.28180247@ul.ie> Date: 29 Apr 91 18:09:55 GMT Lines: 31 In article <17150.28180247@ul.ie> tocherd@ul.ie writes: >In article <3011@n-kulcs.cs.kuleuven.ac.be>, kpottie@icarus.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Pottie Karl) writes: >>>PK> The Stylewriter 's got a life expectancy of about 6000 pages, >>>PK> the deskwriter about 60000 . > >Oops read the manual more carefully! Its the ink cartridge life your taking >about not the mechanical gizzmo. > >David Tocher >Dept of Maths >University of Limerick >Ireland Yeah, Right! I don't think so, I have owned a deskwriter since last October, and I've been through maybe 8 ink cartridges, and only about 5 reams of paper. Al Although we do reuse the paper, and print in draft mode whenever we can, I'm sure this doesn't add up to 60000 sheets per cartridge, if only it did. By the way don't ever by the DeskFill cartridges, or JetFill I think, they absoulutely suck. I had two, one had the ink backed up and dried out in the needle, and both leaked out the sides when squeazed, the first ruining a rather nice shirt and a pair of jeans. They're too expensive to be this badly designed. My suggestion get a hold of siringe (sp?) and a clipped needle and do it yourself, it's cheaper. -Raman Sarin .