Homebrew PCBs

On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 00:22:08 +0200, Steve <alienrelics@...> wrote:

>
> Huh. Seems like a crude method. Your reason is to clean all the old
> ink out of the cartridge in preparation for filling it with MIS PRO ink.
> I found an aspirator at a thrift store. I use it to suck cleaning
> solution through, then distilled water, then just a lot of air. That
> gets 99.9% of the old ink and left-over water out. Refill with the new
> ink. I've made bulk ink systems for myself that way that continue to
> work fine.


Yes well, i like to take things apart ;-)
For a CIS this would not be good, since it is difficult to re-seal. But  
with the sponge a airleak should not be a problem, but still the whole ink  
drained somehow. I don't understand it and ideally it would just go away  
;-)

One of my fears with the CIS is that i mess it up somehow and a whole lot  
of ink drains out just as it did with the cart. The amount of ink in a  
cart would be plenty for me for many boards anyway.
But i find a set of spongeless carts and reset chips just too expensive  
(30eur at the very least not including shipping). I can reset the chips  
outside the printer without removing the carts (and getting air in), but i  
think this is a 100% reset so not ideal either because it wastes ink. I'd  
have to put a lot of effort in to use an atmel to simulate the chips...

ST