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From: ncreed@ndsuvax.UUCP (W. Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Canon FP-510, Color Printers
Summary: Refilling the ink cartridges
Keywords: Color Printers
Message-ID: <1965@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 88 04:46:38 GMT
References: <2638@ihlpm.ATT.COM> <2424@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> <27086@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: ncreed@ndsuvax.UUCP (W. Reed)
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo
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In article <27086@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> me128-aw@kepler.Berkeley.EDU (me128 student) writes:
>In article <2424@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> muzak@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Stephen F Felicetti) writes:
>>I was so pleased with the quality (NO smearing, DEEP colors, blacks are *BLACK*)
>>that I don't mind the extra expense.  (I've even had people comment on the
>....
>Never mind the special paper, what about the Ink Cartridges!
>means it costs $34.95 for a color cartridge and 29.95 for a b/w!!!
>I've been trying to refill my cartridges, but with limited success.  I drill

Ok, I don't have THAT printer, but I did have an HP ThinkJet (Black only.)

What I did, was save up a couple of old ink cartridges and take a syringe
and pull all the extra ink out of the spent cartridges (it never was all gone)
and inject them into Yet Another spent cartridge.  This worked very well, and
3 spent cartridges gave me one full cartridge that had more ink than a new one.
These cartridges had plastic bags inside the clear plastic shell.
There wasn't any pressure in the bags, so they didn't leak.

Hope this can save someone a few bucks...

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