Digital BW, The Print

Helen Bach wrote:
> There are two simple ways to remove ink from a 4800 cartridge.
> 
> 1) Prise off the top cover, lift out the bag, snip the corner off and
> pour into a bottle, such as a Nalgene bottle.
> 
> 2) Put a very short length of plastic tubing onto a syringe and make a
> slanting cut at the end of the tube. Jab the syringe and tube into the
>  valve of the cartridge and suck the ink out. You needn't have a
> bottle: you can just fill the R2400 cart from the syringe.
> 
> I use method 1), but I have also tried method 2).
> 
> Best,
> Helen 

Helen has summed it up quite well.

I have one method to add that I use to empty, 10000, 9600, 
9800 carts while keeping them usable for someone else.

Take a 1.5 m - 5' tube of about 2-3mm - 1/8" internal diameter 
and use a part of a syringe coupling (I have Luer>tube 
connectors)  with a small v cut in the end that sits against 
the valve in the cart. That way you press the valve in but at 
the same time the ink can go through the v groove into the 
tube. Hang that cart against the wall at 1.5 m high and a 
bottle at the ground where the tube goes in. Gravity and 
capillary action will suck that cart empty in no time. With 
the 9800/7800/10000 carts you can also blow air into the 
pressure chamber with a short tube at the air connector of 
that cart type. In that case even a syringe doesn't take out more.

Ernst.



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           Ernst Dinkla


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