On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 11:01:59AM +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
Compatible carts are going to be used in it RSN, as we're being given the poor old thing, and the compat carts are ~ 20 quid for 4 black + 4 colour, so that'll do... there's not a hell of a lot of printing going on there, so they'll last "some time". As for clogging up printheads, feh, who cares, I find that I've broken the printer well before the point where the printheads are knackered ;)
I have seen compatible carts leak all over the print mechanism which was quite funny on a friends (brand new 200 quid) printer :) but the best way of fixing a clogged print head is isopropyl alcohol (no, you can't drink it, well you can but it will probably kill you) if you spray copious amounts of this stuff into the print head it *will* clean it and you should have a working printer again. Although the other way to avoid blocked print heads is to make sure you run a page containing lots of different colours through your printer every week.
Adam