On Behalf Of Shangara Singh > > Yes, I think that's what Luminous Landscape stated too but > someone mentioned on this list 17ml on the side of the carts. > A 5% loss is quite high. Does it get swallowed up in head > preens or some other magical, money minting 'feature?' <g> >
Well, it is difficult to say exactly what the usable ink is, but many agree about 30% of ink gets left in the cartridge; this seems to apply to both sponge-filled cartridges (e.g. Epson 1290 carts and earlier) and the strange 2100-and-later carts which do not have sponge in, but do have the most amazing number of nooks and crannies in which ink could get caught up in unused. Simply put, the printer m'fers seem to like leaving quite a large margin for error so that the printhead never gets air in, because things get very erratic when air is in the printhead. (When you run out of petrol in a car you need to 'reprime' the fuel lines somehow!) Nij Nigel Rheam www.mwords.co.uk Digital Fine Art =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
