Archive for the 'Information' Category

Your Dirty Little Inkjet Printer!

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Don’t you just feel cheated buying Ink? I do and that’s why I started to look for cheaper alternatives like, compatibles, refills, recycled.Take a look at what another angry and dissatisfied UK printer user did when an error message came up, asking him to take his printer to the service centre… Problem is that all [...]

HP's Less Bang for your Buck..

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Dreadful HP Ink Value over time? I use a desktop inkjet printer, mostly because of their ease of use, convenience and speed. I’ve been watching how the manufacturer’s have been filling cartridges with less and less ink – below are my own personal views and experiences with Hewlett Packard. I would say I’m a typical [...]

Inkjet Photo Paper – Bronzing

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

This picture shows you the effects of bronzing, basically the colours are all sitting on top of each other – on the surface of the inkjet photo paper. This mostly happens with pigmented ink – where the particles of colourant are too large to be absorbed into the surface of the inkjet paper. Another cause [...]

Printer Ink: is it just coloured water?

Saturday, May 5th, 2007

Maybe it used to be… go back in time five years or so, before photo printers were invented, your average everyday inkjet printer would just have used black ink. The printer was a lot like your fax machine – used to print off text pages and maybe a limited graphic. So before the advent of [...]

How do Ink Levels Work?

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

This is a good question….. Mostly the level of ink shown on the screen is just an estimate. The only real accurate way to know the true level is with an optical sensor. Canon’s older printers that used the BCI-3′s and BCI-6 range of cartridges detected the ink levels in this way – in the [...]