On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:35:12 +1300, Jinx wrote:
I've noticed ads like this appearing (full colour back page of this
week's NZ Listener - sorry, had to resize and reduce it to b/w

To be fairish to the manufactures, their blurb isn't totally with out
fact. Some of the technology does require the ink to be of certain
specifications - mainly to stop gunging, but some do have added
extras. Plus of course the actual tone of the colours are specific to
the manufacturer - bit like Kodak colour film is slewed towards reds
and yellows, Fuji towards greens and 3M (hard to get) is neutral.

As the inks are proprietory it follows that the 3rd party
manufactures have to make educated/reversed engineered? guesses, and
if they were to have got the anti gunge factoring wrong then the
cartridge would go splat and I have seen a refillable cartridge that
leaked and did very nasty things to the printer.

Having said that they are of course not totally correct either, and
most refill kits cartridges these days are fine.

It should be noted that the manufactures make more profit out of
selling the consumables as does the retailer ,than selling the actual
printer.

colin
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cdb, bodgy1@optusnet.com.au on 15/01/2003

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