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I wonder why all printers don't use this technology? Clickhere,.. I wonder if you can patent this idea before HP does? I mean,.. I bet they thought of doing this already, but they know that they are making a killing on selling ink so they don't bother making printers do this. Tis a grand idea.
Webby,
They already do use this technology on their plotters, and actually, that is what they are using in the printer he has, just the tanks are a bit smaller. There is another set of tubes running from the small tanks in the printer to the printheads.
& now we start & see why your version costs $4 & commercial versions are 'lots' .. so taken am I with what seems a very simple idea, I've been looking at commercial kits for this, & they all seem to have various (powered, I'm assuming) valves on them to stop this happening.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClickHere2Surf.com
I can't think of a simple notion to do what they are doing though .. hang on - sudden thought, use some tape over these iddy biddy holes when not in use ?
The $340 US kit I saw had no valves or anything, it was the exact same thing I built but with hospital IV bags at the end instead of bottles, I wanted something that could stand up which is why I chose the bags, I realize with bottles it won't detect when it's out of ink as no vacuum will form (it knows it's out of ink when the pump is unable to suck anything out) with my bottles if I don't monitor the ink levels it will just start pumping air rather than detecting it's out of ink.
I just got another idea, I could reseal the tiny hole I made which would activate the out of ink sensor but not when it's out of ink, when the vacuum is getting too strong in the bottles, this would require me to loosen and tighten the bottles every now and then but I have no idea how often, maybe I'll try this on one of the bottles.
Note to self: don't look at continous ink feed systems that are for commercial class printers, when other folks mean 'workgroup level' type printers :rolleyes: (the ones I'd looked at, had 1/2 gallon capacities ! :knife: ) .. but having said that, now I'm looking at the right kind of things, you can find these as cheap as £75 depending on what model you want them for & I've realised this ain't a unique idea at all as there's loads of folks sell them ..Quote:
Originally Posted by ClickHere2Surf.com
So now you are debating something like this ?
http://www.inkbags.com/t_images/hp11.jpg
Huh? I'm not sure I understand your question, when u say half gallon capacity is that in the original cartridges or in a continuous ink system? Because the bottles I got are half and quarter gallons. I know this isn't a unique idea at all, it's just that I did it myself for $4 plus $98 of ink instead of $340 which would have came with a quarter the ink I got for a total of $102.
My question wasn't about capacities at all :rolleyes:, & being a xenophobic american, you'll have course forgotten that what I mean by a gallon isn't what you mean anyway ! :p
& Mmmm, I'm not just 'talking to you' .. I'm also talking to 'everybody else' & I think the general impression & comments like 'why don't you patent this idea', would indicate to most folks, that this was 'a new one on us' - I'd only ever seen this done for enterprise class printers (so those with monthly duty cycles in excess of 500,000 sheets, as you seem to think a 'business class' printer is an entirely different beast to what I call one, you keep calling 'workgroup level' ones that).Quote:
..I know this isn't a unique idea at all..
Sorry, but HP calls these "business" models which is why they are called "business inkjet XXXX" except mine which is actually an officejet, but it's the only officejet that is a business [accroding to HP] model, all other officejets are for home users or small businesses. Also, each time I called HP for support they said "what model officejet do you have... oh that's a business model, this is the home product department, I'll transfer you to the business printer department...".
Ah ok then , HP don't know what one is then either then :devil: , its all subjective measurement anyway .. so I guess I may have an unusual slant on matters, as I deal with several large printing firms who'd absolutely fall about laughing, if they were expected to run their businesses with one of these 'business class' printers you are on about, they'd need about 1000 of 'em to do one days stuff !
Hey! I resent that; he's not one of ours!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by confus-ed
Clickhere is from Canada I believe, so that should explain everything. :devil: :thumbs2:
Whilst fully accepting your explanation, I'd like to suggest 'resemble' would be better :p - as the world stops at the USA's borders doesn't it ? Everywhere after that is just somewhere that NEEDS invading ??? :eek2: ('cept us as we are just another state, least it feels that way much of the time!) .. but 'really' only because you made me think about Celine Dion again ! :thumbs2:Quote:
Originally Posted by 3fingersalute
You teetering on turning this thread political, but I'll just ignore whatever your babbling on about, cause since you're not from the US, what you say is not important anyhow.Quote:
Originally Posted by confus-ed
Oh yeah, here's the "its-a-joke" smiley:
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