in a Ink-Jet printers ink tank dump called?

Stripped and cleaned the printer down but want to replace the waste mat the
excess ink soaks into but don't know what its called.

cheers.

"George" wrote in message
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in a Ink-Jet printers ink tank dump called?

Stripped and cleaned the printer down but want to replace the waste mat
the excess ink soaks into but don't know what its called.

Sponge

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in a Ink-Jet printers ink tank dump called?

Stripped and cleaned the printer down but want to replace the waste mat
the excess ink soaks into but don't know what its called.

Sponge


Nah! man,Tis like a thick bed of blotting paper...just can't think what to
replace it with? as getting an original would be impossible.

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"George" wrote in message
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in a Ink-Jet printers ink tank dump called?

Stripped and cleaned the printer down but want to replace the waste mat
the excess ink soaks into but don't know what its called.

Sponge


Nah! man,Tis like a thick bed of blotting paper...just can't think what to
replace it with? as getting an original would be impossible.

You could just try thick blotting paper. However, open cell polyethylene
foam would work and it can be washed out next time.

Colin Bignell

RW wrote:
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in a Ink-Jet printers ink tank dump called?

Stripped and cleaned the printer down but want to replace the waste mat
the excess ink soaks into but don't know what its called.

Sponge


Folded up kitchen paper???

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"George" wrote in message
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in a Ink-Jet printers ink tank dump called?

Stripped and cleaned the printer down but want to replace the waste mat
the excess ink soaks into but don't know what its called.

Sponge


Folded up kitchen paper???

What about MDF...would this work?

George wrote:

What about MDF...would this work?

Doesn't act as a great sponge IME (though it doesn't like prolonged
exposure to water)

On Oct 26, 1:03*pm, Andy Burns wrote:
George wrote:
What about MDF...would this work?

Doesn't act as a great sponge IME (though it doesn't like prolonged
exposure to water)

Whatever you use has to be rotproof, so natural fibre felt and paper
are out. Microfibre cloth maybe.

Re low cost lasers, they're surely the way to go if you can do without
colour. I'd have to be mad to go back to an inkjet, what a PITA
technology they were. Reminds me... I still remember being seriously
impressed when seeing a daisy wheel that double printed to give bold!
Anyone remember 7 pin dot matrixes with no descenders?


NT

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in a Ink-Jet printers ink tank dump called?

It's usually a thick felt pad.

On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:44:43 GMT, George wrote:
in a Ink-Jet printers ink tank dump called?

Stripped and cleaned the printer down but want to replace the waste mat the
excess ink soaks into but don't know what its called.

cheers.

can you just soak the old ink out of it, rinse it a few times
then dry it out and replace it?

"pete" wrote in message
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On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:44:43 GMT, George wrote:
in a Ink-Jet printers ink tank dump called?

Stripped and cleaned the printer down but want to replace the waste mat
the
excess ink soaks into but don't know what its called.

cheers.

can you just soak the old ink out of it, rinse it a few times
then dry it out and replace it?

No that doesn't work,tried that years ago on an old olivetti,turns out when
you wash it and dry it out its loses its thickness and absorbancy.

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On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:44:43 GMT, George wrote:
in a Ink-Jet printers ink tank dump called?

Stripped and cleaned the printer down but want to replace the waste mat
the
excess ink soaks into but don't know what its called.

cheers.

can you just soak the old ink out of it, rinse it a few times
then dry it out and replace it?

No that doesn't work,tried that years ago on an old olivetti,turns out
when you wash it and dry it out its loses its thickness and absorbancy.


Isn't it poor technology - You pay a fortune for a bit of felt impregnated
with ink - the cartridge - and when you clean the heads most of it ends up
as waste. Laser printers are getting cheaper. Anyone tried a £100 laser
yet?

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On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:44:43 GMT, George wrote:
in a Ink-Jet printers ink tank dump called?

Stripped and cleaned the printer down but want to replace the waste mat
the
excess ink soaks into but don't know what its called.

cheers.

can you just soak the old ink out of it, rinse it a few times
then dry it out and replace it?

No that doesn't work,tried that years ago on an old olivetti,turns out
when you wash it and dry it out its loses its thickness and absorbancy.


Isn't it poor technology - You pay a fortune for a bit of felt impregnated
with ink - the cartridge - and when you clean the heads most of it ends up
as waste. Laser printers are getting cheaper. Anyone tried a £100 laser
yet?


The printer I have is still giving me good results...I thought I'd just give
it a cleaning service from stripping it down to reassembling..
If you want to talk about laser printers please start your own thread about
them.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "George"
saying something like:

If you want to talk about laser printers please start your own thread about
them.

1. Thread drift is to be expected.

2. This isn't your thread.

On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:55:51 +0000, John wrote:

"George" wrote in message
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"pete" wrote in message
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On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:44:43 GMT, George wrote:
in a Ink-Jet printers ink tank dump called?

Stripped and cleaned the printer down but want to replace the waste
mat the
excess ink soaks into but don't know what its called.

cheers.

can you just soak the old ink out of it, rinse it a few times then dry
it out and replace it?

No that doesn't work,tried that years ago on an old olivetti,turns out
when you wash it and dry it out its loses its thickness and absorbancy.


Isn't it poor technology - You pay a fortune for a bit of felt
impregnated with ink - the cartridge - and when you clean the heads most
of it ends up as waste. Laser printers are getting cheaper. Anyone tried
a £100 laser yet?


I've been using a Samsung ML-1210 for several years now. Only for
domestic purposes, not as an everyday business machine. It's proved to be
very good! One of my reasons for getting it is that I've had enough of
inkjets getting clogged and having to scrap cartridges (or even complete
machines!) because of it. Another reason is that Samsung machines are
well supported in linux. :-) It's replacement appears to be the ML-2010
and that's what I'll probably get when my current cartridge runs out -
it's about the same price as just replacing the cartridge.

I wouldn't recommend these machines for photos. They are very good for
text & line diagrams though.

--
Mick (Working in a M$-free zone!)
Web: http://www.nascom.info
Filtering everything posted from googlegroups to kill spam.

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On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:55:51 +0000, John wrote:

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"pete" wrote in message
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On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:44:43 GMT, George wrote:
in a Ink-Jet printers ink tank dump called?

Stripped and cleaned the printer down but want to replace the waste
mat the
excess ink soaks into but don't know what its called.

cheers.

can you just soak the old ink out of it, rinse it a few times then dry
it out and replace it?

No that doesn't work,tried that years ago on an old olivetti,turns out
when you wash it and dry it out its loses its thickness and absorbancy.


Isn't it poor technology - You pay a fortune for a bit of felt
impregnated with ink - the cartridge - and when you clean the heads most
of it ends up as waste. Laser printers are getting cheaper. Anyone tried
a £100 laser yet?


I've been using a Samsung ML-1210 for several years now. Only for
domestic purposes, not as an everyday business machine. It's proved to be
very good! One of my reasons for getting it is that I've had enough of
inkjets getting clogged and having to scrap cartridges (or even complete
machines!) because of it. Another reason is that Samsung machines are
well supported in linux. :-) It's replacement appears to be the ML-2010
and that's what I'll probably get when my current cartridge runs out -
it's about the same price as just replacing the cartridge.

I wouldn't recommend these machines for photos. They are very good for
text & line diagrams though.

Seconded. I too have an ML-1210. It's brilliant for text printing (although
only single sided).

I have a Canon Pixma iP6700D for photos, which quite recently replaced the
old Epson Stylus Photo 1200. That was becoming a right pain as it needed
repeated head cleanings every time I used it. The only feature I'll miss is
its A3 ability, although TBH I only ever used that about twice in the
several years I had it. Before dumping it I taught it a lesson by taking it
all to pieces. That waste ink pad in the base contained a remarkable
quantity of ink, and took up most of the base of the printer. Being an A3
the base was pretty big too.

Regards,
Simon.

On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:41:23 +0000, mick wrote:

On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:55:51 +0000, John wrote:

"George" wrote in message
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"pete" wrote in message
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On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:44:43 GMT, George wrote:
in a Ink-Jet printers ink tank dump called?

Stripped and cleaned the printer down but want to replace the waste
mat the
excess ink soaks into but don't know what its called.

cheers.

can you just soak the old ink out of it, rinse it a few times then dry
it out and replace it?

No that doesn't work,tried that years ago on an old olivetti,turns out
when you wash it and dry it out its loses its thickness and absorbancy.


Isn't it poor technology - You pay a fortune for a bit of felt
impregnated with ink - the cartridge - and when you clean the heads most
of it ends up as waste. Laser printers are getting cheaper. Anyone tried
a £100 laser yet?


I've been using a Samsung ML-1210 for several years now. Only for
domestic purposes, not as an everyday business machine. It's proved to be
very good! One of my reasons for getting it is that I've had enough of
inkjets getting clogged and having to scrap cartridges (or even complete
machines!) because of it. Another reason is that Samsung machines are
well supported in linux. :-) It's replacement appears to be the ML-2010
and that's what I'll probably get when my current cartridge runs out -
it's about the same price as just replacing the cartridge.

I wouldn't recommend these machines for photos. They are very good for
text & line diagrams though.

=========================================
You can get cheap re-fills for the ML-1210 which makes it a very
economical printer. Re-filling is easy if you use a small domestic funnel
to get the powder in. I've been using mine for about five years. I can't
find a bottle of toner at the moment but I'm pretty sure this is the one
I've been using:

http://www.consumablecafe.co.uk/acat...LED_TONER.html

Cic.

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Using Ubuntu Linux
Windows shown the door
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John wrote:

Anyone tried a £100 laser yet?

Yes, HP CP1215 colour printer. Print quality is OK but lower resolution
than even modest inkjets. The same rip-off model is applied to the toner
cartridges as to inkjet cartridges, it costs £200 at discount prices to
replace the cartridges - instore at Staples they cost £320. It makes no
sense to me to save money on the printer when the cartidges cost three
times the amount paid for it. Also the cartridges are pathetic, offering
1,400 pages at 5% coverage.

I do a lot of high volume colour printing for my job, and had to think
carefully about which printers to buy. I used to get Xerox Phaser 850s
which cost a couple of thousand pounds each, but they came with free
black refills for life. Then Xerox dropped the free ink offer and
reduced the price of the printers to a few hundred quid. I currently
have a mix of 850s and 8200s. I still get the free ink for the 850
making them the economical workhorse printers. The 8200s are higher
resolution and better quality print so I use those for the magazine
quality output.

These printers aren't lasers they are solid-ink printers which melt wax
blocks then apply them from an inkjet type head. The inks are sprayed
onto a drum then pressed onto the page which makes the effective
resolution higher than a laser since all inks are overprinted and mixed
on the drum. The basic resolution is 1200dpi, enhanced photo quality is
2400dpi but CMYK inks are all printed on top of each other leading to an
effective resolution of 7200dpi compared to the 300-600 dpi of a cheap
laser printer. Best of all is the price. A set of refills capable of
printing 20,000 pages at full coverage costs me £185.

The printers can be bought for between £50 and £200 secondhand, with a
long life left on them. Service manuals are available on the web and I
found it cheaper to buy another printer from eBay and cannibalise it for
spares than to pay Xerox to make repairs. In the time I've used the
printers (the last six years) I've needed to replace one print head, one
wax-melting unit and one drum heater. All simple jobs for anyone with a
Torx driver set.