Jonas, I have three apple Stylewriters printers that were unused for at least five years and last month i fired them up and left the printers on for about an hour and started a print job and they all printed: one of the printers was very very faint.
So i just filled it up with black HP ink and let it stand overnite then used it the next day no problems. Apparrently the heat from leaving them on helps the ink flow. Just buy yourself a bottle of HP black ink and a drill to drill out a hole on the top ( you will see where the plug is ) and use a syringe and fill it up. You may have to dab the bottom metal part of the cartridge on a piece of wet paper towel until you get ink spots on the wet paper towel. That trick gets the ink flowing. Another trick on old old cartridges i learned is to inject about half a syringe full of warm water. Or, if you can find Cannon BC-01 and 2 cartridges they also work but they are hard to find and sometimes expensive. Find a ink refiller business in your area just to get started or to buy the ink from them. Good luck. On Dec 24, 9:31 am, Jonas Lopez <[email protected]> wrote: > I want to buy 1 l of inkjet ink for the printer on my Mac, but this $ 40 > purchase has a question: what is the shelf life of inkjet ink? > > If you are like me, you have been paying very, very, very, high prices for > black ink, so why not find and buy enough to last a long time if the shelf > life is ok. > > jml -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
