Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!uwvax!umn-d-ub!nic.MR.NET!ns!logajan From: logajan@ns.network.com (John Logajan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: REFILLING HP DeskJet INK CARTRIDGES -- a warning... Message-ID: <1989Sep27.230532.25344@ns.network.com> Date: 27 Sep 89 23:05:32 GMT References: <890922.08325265.044109@SFA.CP6> <4056@ucselx.sdsu.edu> Sender: news@ns.network.com Organization: Network Systems Corporation, Mpls., MN Lines: 42 coffey@ucselx.UUCP (pat coffey) writes: >> Ok, as far as crusting is concerned which can clog the tubes >>and make a general mess of things..... I've yet to see crusting >>that is differant than that of the HP crusting. >I've been refilling my hp carteidges for about 6 months now, and, >last weekend, my dj stopped printing. I put in a brand new cartreidge >that had an expiration date of 12/90 and it printed about 10 pages >and then died. 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! 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. When I had my HP DeskJet Plus taken apart to pieces (a very easy task, by the way) I saw the little plastic tube that runs the primed ink down to a blotter pad in the base of the unit. It certainly wouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how to clean the tube out if it did become clogged! (The fact that HP ink is air drying and so is "bogus" ink, leads me to seriously doubt that one is more likely to clog than the other.) The type of person who refills ink cartridges is almost suredly the same type of person who will take the skins off the DJ+ to clean his own plastic tube. Let HP make is ripoff money off the types who don't know which end of a soldering iron to hold. I'll gladly continue to (start to) refill my cartridge without fear of HP detection or loss of waranty. -- - 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 -