DESKJET ink cartridge substitute

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From: Z4648252
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 1989 08:23

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   I've received several messages asking how to 'recharge' the ink cartridges
for the HP DeskJet.  Yes, it can be done and you can save lots of bucks.
   Buy Sheaffer's Skip jet black ink--about $1.50 for a bottle, lasts about
five recharges.
   Take an ink cartridge that is light but is still feeding ink.  Ream out the
air hole to about the width of a pencil eraser.  Now, buy a machinest's
hypodermic syringe and squirt in no more than two CC's of ink.  A sponge
inside of the cartridge will absorb the ink.  Any more ink will cause a
syphon effect to occur and you will lose your ink.
   I've been using the same cartridge for about five months or so and it
has been through about five reams of paper.  There is no way that a regular
cartridge would last through that much paper with the amount of dark desktop
publishing that I do on the HP DeskJet.
   I've not had any luck on using permanet or even India ink on the recharge.
If anyone has had success in this let me know.  HOPE THIS HELPS...



Larry Rymal <Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET>

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