cyee@argon.berkeley.edu (Clayton Yee) (11/24/90)
I'm considering purchasing the Deskjet 500. The only concern i have is the $17-$20 price tag for the ink cartridges which last only 200-250 pages of letter quality printing. I have seen refill kits, one in a Lyben Computer Systems catalog for $9/refill, and another elsewhere for $20, good for 4 refills. Has anyone tried these or similar kits with success? Is the ink the same waterproofness? How many refills can a cartridge take before a new one is necessary? Or maybe you know of sources for new cartridges, cheap. Thanks for your help. Clayton
tj@anaconda.cis.ohio-state.edu (Todd R Johnson) (11/25/90)
In article <9176@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> cyee@argon.berkeley.edu (Clayton Yee) writes: >> >>I'm considering purchasing the Deskjet 500. The only concern i have >>is the $17-$20 price tag for the ink cartridges which last only 200-250 >>pages of letter quality printing. >> >>I have seen refill kits, one in a Lyben Computer Systems catalog >>for $9/refill, and another elsewhere for $20, good for 4 refills. >>Has anyone tried these or similar kits with success? >>Is the ink the same waterproofness? For an even cheaper solution, go to a kitchen/cooking store and buy an instant marinate device (about $5.00). This is basically an oversized syringe used to inject juice into meats. The one I bought is called Zap!. Then pick up a bottle of Shaeffer jet black skrip for about $2.00. I've only tried the non-waterproof type, but the permanent is also supposed to work. To refill the cartridge, suck up some ink with the syringe and insert it into the hole on top of the cartridge. You have to work it down into the foam block, otherwise the ink will just squirt back out the hole. Next, just move the syringe back and forth (or up and down) and slowly squirt the ink in. Stop when ink starts to come back out the hole. ---Todd -- Todd R. Johnson tj@cis.ohio-state.edu Laboratory for AI Research The Ohio State University
akm@cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) (11/27/90)
In article <9176@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> cyee@argon.berkeley.edu (Clayton Yee) writes: > >I'm considering purchasing the Deskjet 500. The only concern i have >is the $17-$20 price tag for the ink cartridges which last only 200-250 >pages of letter quality printing. > >I have seen refill kits, one in a Lyben Computer Systems catalog >for $9/refill, and another elsewhere for $20, good for 4 refills. >Has anyone tried these or similar kits with success? >Is the ink the same waterproofness? I've been refilling deskjet carts for a while now... I first learnt about it from a very short text file that I found on Simtel20 (and wuarchive.wustl.edu, which is a simtel mirror). There is a directory called deskjet, which has this file (don't remember the name) All you need is a syringe, needle, and good fountain pen ink. The inside of the cart is sponge, so push the needle into the sponge and fill it with ink. The major problem I face(d) is getting a syringe. These days, what with IV drug use and so on, I didn't know how to get a syringe. Fortunately found one in an old vinyl repair kit I had... kartik -- Anant Kartik Mithal akm@cs.uoregon.edu Network Manager, (503)346-4408 (msgs) Department of Computer Science, (503)346-4156 (direct) University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1202