Archive for the ‘Bubblejet’ Category
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
I use a little Hewlett-Packard bubble-jet printer at work (don't remember the number and now it's the Xmas hols...)
It sometimes plays up with the green and orange lights flashing alternately and the print halts. When re-started it ejects the paper and then the same happens again. Tried changing the black ...
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Sunday, August 19th, 2007
The “efficiency†of an inkjet printer is the proportion of ink that gets onto the paper.
This depends on the detail design of the printer. Printers with separate ink tanks are known to use much more ink than those which have combined ink/print head cartridges, as in the former the head ...
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Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Yes, you can print on edible paper using edible colour inks in an inkjet printer, and then stick the paper on your cakes and such. You can't re-use the printer for ordinary printing, as you mustn't mix the edible and non-edible inks, for obvious reasons. The edible ink is a ...
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Sunday, August 19th, 2007
This message comes up in two steps with Canon bubblejet printers. First there is a warning, then the printer refuses to work at all.
What has happened is that the software has determined that sufficient head cleaning/purging has taken place to fill the waste ink absorber with waste ink.
[It also means ...
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Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Print quality:
There is more to getting good quality prints than putting some ink cartridges in the printer and grabbing a handful of paper. This is particularly important when printing photos. Manufacturers recommend that you use their original ink, that you use their brand of paper, or other recommended paper, and ...
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Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Unfortunately, the first answer that comes to most user's minds is "buy some cheap third-party inks".
I'd like to explain why this is not such a good idea.
While bubble-jets are 1) remarkably cheap, and 2) as good at printing photos as any other kind of printer at any price, they are ...
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