Seems like the heaters in the cartridge might just blow themselves out when there's no ink to cool them off... Harold On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:16:08 -0800 Brandon Irwin writes: > The 'destroying' mechanism could be a high power voltage spike that > just kills all the internal contacts. Lots of little fuses maybe. > > You have to realise that HP loses money for every printer that they > sell. To make up for the loss and to make a profit, they sell the > ink. > > _____________________________________________________________ > Get your free email here at http://www.e-ha.com > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. > > FCC Rules Online at http://hallikainen.com/FccRules Lighting control for theatre and television at http://www.dovesystems.com ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body