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From: lorner@ecst.csuchico.edu (Lance Orner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Deskwriter/Deskjet Ink Refills
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Date: 17 May 91 21:16:11 GMT
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In article <1991May17.185806.26658@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies) writes:
>I just found an article from the Berkeley MUG Winter/Spring 1991 issue
>called "Refills for your Deskwriter" (page 200).  It states the
>following --
>
>(a) Deskwriter cartridges last for 1500 pages (true?)

The manual says, I believe, 500 pages, although I've got one cartridge that
I'm sure has passes 500 pages a long time ago.

[Quote from a chemist saying that most ink will burn when used in
the Deskwriter/DeskJet]

Oh come on!  Looking at the article, it looks likes it's an advertisement
for that particular refill kit, and not a totally unbiased report on
refilling your DeskWriter, although I haven't seen the original article.
There are about a half-dozen different refill kits availabe for the 
DeskJet, with the largest one being JetFill which runs an ad in MacUser.
But I've also heard of people using standard good bottled ink from the
stationary store with no problems.

I have certainly never seen or heard a printer going down in flames simply
because he didn't use the ink from this particular refill company.

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