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RE: [Digital BW] (unknown)

2004-01-19 by Alan Zinn

At 01:11 PM 1/18/04 -0800, you wrote:



Guys,

Simple solution: fill a depleted but re-set color cart with windex.  I did 
that for BO and it works fine. The windex takes on a tint so it still 
prints nozzle checks.

AZ

> > From: sus123452000 [mailto:sus@...]
> >
> > I wonder whether there's any inkjet (not an Epson, I bet) that would
> > be willing to print in black-only ink with _empty_ color cartridges --
> > just empty, dummy cartridges to fill the space -- or whether every
> > injet printer will refuse to go on if its color cartridges are empty.
>
>The latter. But if you did so much black-only printing that the amount of
>color ink wasted in cleaning cycles became an economic issue, you could buy
>a chip resetter and reset the empty color cartridge's ink counter. You might
>eventually wind up with a dried out color printhead, but if the printer was
>reserved for B&W, that wouldn't be an issue.
>
>--
>
>Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
>Paul                mailto:pderocco@...


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