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Getting Fingers Dirty
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Mechanical genius I'm not so don't know if this makes sense, but the ink absorber pads that you decribe sound similar to the stuff you find at the base of a roast you buy in the meat market. It absorbs the blood past some plastic sheeting into a collection area with pads so it can absorb more without putting liquid blood into the bottom of the meat package. Remember when packaged meats use to have liquid blood that would leak out all over you and your paper bags? Not near the problem now with these nifty (stuff) little absorber gadgets. Could something like this work as an absorber simply with a drain hole at the bottom of a raised printer?
Couldn't a hole be drilled in the bottom of the printer, at the specified location, a plug of some type be installed, and periodically just open the plug and let the ink drain out onto our collection absorber described above? And, do this as a regular maintenance schedule.
Or, what about an outlet cap similar to what is on the caps of ink bottles that allow you to eject ink into a syringe without leaking ink out of the bottle if it happens to fall over on it's side? With this outlet cap plugged into the strategically placed hole at the waste ink dump area, it would be air tight, and would only need to have a periodic ejection process to keep clean. The collection absorber could be used under the hole as a safety precaution and checked periodically.
Mechanical genius I'm not so don't know if this makes sense, but the ink absorber pads that you decribe sound similar to the stuff you find at the base of a roast you buy in the meat market. It absorbs the blood past some plastic sheeting into a collection area with pads so it can absorb more without putting liquid blood into the bottom of the meat package. Remember when packaged meats use to have liquid blood that would leak out all over you and your paper bags? Not near the problem now with these nifty (stuff) little absorber gadgets. Could something like this work as an absorber simply with a drain hole at the bottom of a raised printer?
Couldn't a hole be drilled in the bottom of the printer, at the specified location, a plug of some type be installed, and periodically just open the plug and let the ink drain out onto our collection absorber described above? And, do this as a regular maintenance schedule.
Or, what about an outlet cap similar to what is on the caps of ink bottles that allow you to eject ink into a syringe without leaking ink out of the bottle if it happens to fall over on it's side? With this outlet cap plugged into the strategically placed hole at the waste ink dump area, it would be air tight, and would only need to have a periodic ejection process to keep clean. The collection absorber could be used under the hole as a safety precaution and checked periodically.
