Ink Level Monitors ExposedWritten by Barry Shultz
When you print a page on your inkjet printer, if you have your drivers properly installed, you will see a small screen pop up telling you how full your cartridges are. How does your printer know this? Most printers count ink drops. Every line of print is produced by tiny droplets of ink and your very smart printer keeps track of every one of them. It's pretty impressive because it's nothing for todays inkjet printers to lay down 12,000,000 drops per second. Canon also uses an optical method. The ink sensor monitors ink levels through optical detection and dot counting and alerts users when supply of any color ink is low. Canon's ink level system is probably most accurate although you can still trick printer into printing more from an "empty" ink tank. Just tell software that you have installed a new cartridge and you can get more pages out of it.
| | It's All In The SettingsWritten by Barry Shultz
Inkjet printers do a great job on text printing but many people do not know that you don't need a photo printer to make great photo printouts. Sure a photo printer is going to do a superior job and a little faster but you really don't need a photo printer for spectacular photo quality prints. Most inkjet printers on market today have a mode for printing on photo glossy paper. If you use good quality photo glossy paper, 7 - 10 mills in thickness, you can get a picture perfect print. A good quality digital camera helps too. Most digital cameras sold today have capability of making a decent print even on lowest resolution. Of course if you want a better print you need to use a higher resolution on your camera. I won't go into resolution settings here because everybody has their own idea of what their perfect resolution is and my inbox would be flooded. :-)
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