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From: swan@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Joel Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: REFILLING HP DeskJet INK CARTRIDGES -- a warning...
Message-ID: <1585@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>
Date: 23 Sep 89 23:42:37 GMT
References: <890922.08325265.044109@SFA.CP6> <1716@ns.network.com>
Reply-To: swan@jolnet.UUCP (Joel Swan)
Organization: Media Specialties LTD
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In article <1716@ns.network.com> logajan@ns.network.com (John Logajan) writes:
:Larry Rymal Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET (Z4648252) writes:
:>     Here is the official warning from Hewlett Packard.  Refilling the
:> [DeskJet] ink cartridges will probably void your warranty. 
:
:They might as well also threaten to void the warranty for grinning in the
:dark -- for all the good it will do them.  Laws that are impossible to
:enforce (because the violation is undetectable) are always silly.
:
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:- 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 -

True, so far as nothing goes wrong with your printer.  However, the possibility
of the bogus ink clogging the pump inside your DJ is very high.  Once
clogged, someone may bring their printer in for warranty repair.  One look
by the repair technician and out the door you go.

I am hesitant to try any new inks yet because of the priming/bleeding
pump that keeps the ink jets clean.  The "pump" consists of nothing more 
than a slender plastic tube that is squeezed along by a cam.  If the ink dries
out in this tube, you may well be up a creek w/o a paddle.
The "violation" only becomes a violation when someone needs the warranty work.
At that point, detection is inevitable.