Hopefully he has replenished his first aid supplies... grin.
Jerry
On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 01:55 AM, Tony LaFemina wrote:
> C'mon Jerry. Don't you have any compassion for Ward's lip? I put this
> discussion behind me until I have something concrete to support my
> claims. Here's three basic and fairly inexpensive ways I know of to
> measure fluid levels.
> 1. mechanical - The dipstick for measuring the oil in your car.
> 2. electronic - The variable capacitor (or resistor) in your car's gas
> tank. I don't know if that's been updated or not.
> 3. optical - A light source on one side of a container, and a
> receiving unit on the opposite side.
>
> I believe any other systems would be more sophisticated and costly.
> Keep the fires burning. "I'll be back".
>
> Tony
>
>
> Yeager wrote:
>
>>
>> On Saturday, January 4, 2003, at 10:54 PM, Tony LaFemina wrote:
>>
>> <<portions cut out>>
>>
>>> Nothing technical was stated to support Jerry's claims, and
>>> electrostatic charges aren't going to cut it.
>>>
>>
>> I think I see the difficulty here. So that we are clear on this, I
>> will start with a paraphrasing of the original question again:
>>
>> Q: Why does Epson recommend not taking out half used cartridges?
>>
>> A: There are TWO (not ONE, but TWO) reasons. Earlier I had listed
>> both reasons in one paragraph, but I will break them into smaller
>> chunks.
>>
>> 1) The first is the way the cartridges work in Epson printers.
>> Cartridges that are inserted must be electrostatically charged so
>> that the ink flows out. This charging must be done each time a
>> cartridge is inserted and doing it repeatedly wastes ink. (This is a
>> standard approach for many ink-jet printers. Other printers use
>> techniques similar to the dye-sublimation type of technology where
>> the ink is forced out of the cartridge by heating. Both methods have
>> benefits.
>>
>> 2) EARLY versions of OS-X printer drivers were not completed when
>> they were first released. This was true for all of them, including
>> Apple's. The drivers in ink jet printers did not correctly report
>> remaining ink levels if a cartridge was removed and reinserted.
>>
>> Thus Epson told their customers not to yank the cartridges out until
>> they were empty.
>>
>> Dig mon?
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>>
>>> If I'm still allowed to be a part of the list, I'll try my best to
>>> keep responses down to one e-mail, but I can't make any guarantees.
>>>
>>
>> No reason you wouldn't be??????
>>
>>>
>>>
>
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> Tony LaFemina
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> Minor in Software Fundamentals
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