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Blue Fingers
May. 13th, 2010 12:18 amI have blue fingers. This seems to happen every time I take on what should be a simple task involving a printer. And ink.
In this case the printer was my Dad's. He has possibly found an interesting solution to the age old problem of printer cartridges always running out.
It arrives as a pair of cartridges (for black and colour) with tubes coming out of them. The tubes lead to a set of ink reservoirs, sitting beside the printer, which can be easily kept topped up. In theory it seems like a very good idea, and it probably would work. Or at least it probably would work if my Dad hadn't attached the reservoirs upside-down, so that no ink wasn't getting into the tubes.
Hopefully now we've corrected this, the ink will start flowing properly, but after several cleaning cycles, there still seemed to be a lot of air in the tubes. Hopefully a few more cycles will get things flowing properly and back on track.
Still you can't really blame the system for my Dad getting it wrong. I'll keep an eye on it for a couple of months and let you all know how it works out. If it's successful, I'll be looking for one myself.
In the meantime, I've got to scrub the rest of this ink off.
In this case the printer was my Dad's. He has possibly found an interesting solution to the age old problem of printer cartridges always running out.
It arrives as a pair of cartridges (for black and colour) with tubes coming out of them. The tubes lead to a set of ink reservoirs, sitting beside the printer, which can be easily kept topped up. In theory it seems like a very good idea, and it probably would work. Or at least it probably would work if my Dad hadn't attached the reservoirs upside-down, so that no ink wasn't getting into the tubes.
Hopefully now we've corrected this, the ink will start flowing properly, but after several cleaning cycles, there still seemed to be a lot of air in the tubes. Hopefully a few more cycles will get things flowing properly and back on track.
Still you can't really blame the system for my Dad getting it wrong. I'll keep an eye on it for a couple of months and let you all know how it works out. If it's successful, I'll be looking for one myself.
In the meantime, I've got to scrub the rest of this ink off.
