Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!attctc!jolnet!swan From: swan@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Joel Swan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: REFILLING HP DeskJet INK CARTRIDGES -- a warning... Message-ID: <1618@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> Date: 28 Sep 89 05:54:25 GMT References: <890922.08325265.044109@SFA.CP6> <4056@ucselx.sdsu.edu> <1989Sep27.230532.25344@ns.network.com> Reply-To: swan@jolnet.UUCP (Joel Swan) Organization: Media Specialties LTD Lines: 31 In article <1989Sep27.230532.25344@ns.network.com> logajan@ns.network.com (John Logajan) writes: : :I don't see how this could have anything to do with refilling the :cartridge. I mean, the whole print head IS the cartridge. If you :replace the cartridge, you'd have to invoke homeopathic magic to :blame it on the previous cartridge! The blame would be on the clogged passage ways BELOW the print cartridge. :To the guy that claimed that your HP repair guy would be able to tell :the difference between HP clogged ink and so-called "bogus" clogged :ink -- NONSENSE! Do your really believe that the HP repair guy is :going to send out samples of your clogged ink to a chemical analysis :to determine if he should void the waranty or not? Nobody has that :amount of luxury time available. The HP ink is water soluble. Your ink isn't. Can you think of a quick easy way to check if you've used HP's ink? (A water faucet can't be too far away...) >- John M. Logajan @ Network Systems; 7600 Boone Ave; Brooklyn Park, MN 55428 - >- logajan@ns.network.com, john@logajan.mn.org, Phn 612-424-4888, Fax 424-2853 - I prefer to watch the situation for another 6 months or so. If no real problems develop, I'll probably switch to a home brew too. In the mean time, keep us up to date on any repairs needed (how would you clean solid water proof ink form a thin plastic tube?) Hope things work out. I'd like to save some $ too. Joel