How-To Refill Your Ink Cartridge

Written by Marisa Pellegrino


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5. Once you placerepparttar cartridge back inrepparttar 107690 printer, runrepparttar 107691 cleaning cycle 1 to 3 times. If there are any gaps inrepparttar 107692 printing, runrepparttar 107693 cleaning cycle again.

Don’t Forget

There are a few things to remember when refilling your cartridge. It should be refilled beforerepparttar 107694 cartridge is completely empty to avoidrepparttar 107695 chamber from drying out and clogging. Also, it is a good idea to letrepparttar 107696 printer cartridge sit for a few hours (or overnight) so thatrepparttar 107697 pressure inrepparttar 107698 cartridge will stabilize.

Some printers, like newer Epson models, have a green chip on their ink cartridges which is visible by looking at your cartridge. They are often referred to as “Intellidge” cartridges. The chip keeps track of how oftenrepparttar 107699 cartridge is used and letsrepparttar 107700 computer know whenrepparttar 107701 cartridge may be low or empty. As long as you resetrepparttar 107702 chip, refillingrepparttar 107703 cartridge with ink from a refill kit will not be a problem. A resetting tool can be used to resetrepparttar 107704 memory onrepparttar 107705 chip. This allowsrepparttar 107706 printer to recognizerepparttar 107707 cartridge as being full which makes printing with a refilled cartridge possible.

Refilling your own ink cartridge is easy, good forrepparttar 107708 environment, and very good for your pocket.

A recent grad from Concordia University's English Department, Marisa uses her computer technology skills along side her writing skills to be the webmaster for The Print Pot. Sharing her interest and expertise about ink jet refill kits has helped convince many of the advantages of refilling rather than discarding empty cartridges.


Computers are Running My Life

Written by Ieuan Dolby


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I played that other game Age of Empires many times to. Love that game as it takes s kill and thought as well as two fingers and rapid movement and I became extremely proficient at it as time went by. My computer often struggled to cope withrepparttar size of my army andrepparttar 107689 enemies that I faced. I would sit there for hours on end, maneuvering, shifting, attacking and withdrawing tillrepparttar 107690 sun started to come up onrepparttar 107691 horizon. It would be then that I would force myself away and climb into bed only to resurface two hours later, make a large urn of coffee and re-attack with a vengeance. Although this game never caused me to start charging at other cars onrepparttar 107692 highways or lobbing screwed up notes at others inrepparttar 107693 office it did cause me to take a good look at myself. What would happen if suddenly I started to do this sort of thing in real life? If I started to make deals with my neighbors to attack next door offices or ping elastic bands atrepparttar 107694 mail delivery boy? I’ve stopped playing games now and have become a serious and boring "been there, done that and cured myself" type of person. I do have long and empty hours where I feelrepparttar 107695 urge to take up where I left off and I get extremely jealous when others talk about games or I see others playing them but I resist. I think it must be like smoking where one never losesrepparttar 107696 urge to light up and take a draw – justrepparttar 107697 one! No, No, I cannot! I now sit there and lecture others onrepparttar 107698 dangers of playing games and that they should stop before it is too late. And they? They just nod politely and then disappear to talk amongst themselves............."must be and ex-player", whisper, whisper, whisper.

Ieuan Dolby is the Author and Webmaster of Seamania . As a Chief Engineer in the Merchant Navy he has sailed the world for fifteen years. Now living in Taiwan he writes about cultures across the globe and life as he sees it.


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