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Edible surface? What do you mean? I'm printing photos, not pastry. Just plain generic glossy 4x6 photo paper.

It's news to me if there's any such thing as magenta, cyan or black food colouring. I use the all-in-one cartridges because that's what the IP1000 takes. How could I use anything different? The printer was dumped, so it cost me nothing (it had 5 cents stuck in the paper feed) so I have...

I agree with Paddy. I ruined a dozen or so carts before I woke up and started dripping the ink into the output filters. I think 50 or 60 drops usually does it. I worry about overfilling the colour ones, as it would seem to be asking for inter-colour contamination.

I used plain blue for the Cyan (close enough), yellow for Yellow (of course), and 50/50 Rose Pink and Pillar Box Red for Magenta. These are food colourings made by Queen (available from any supermarket in Australia) I mixed all 3 for black until dripping into running water in the sink produces...

I have made very good vacuum pump for $0 using compressor out of an old fridge. Nothing to it.

Vacuum cleaners are useless unless you only need a weak partial vacuum. You can pull a pretty good vacuum with an old fridge compressor, and it won't cost you anything except some time to fart around with it.

The manufacturers make far more money on aftermarket cartridge sales than they do on the printers themselves. The irresponsible ones (HP, Lexmark, etc.) make the printhead integral with the tank, making the cartridge fantastically expensive and the company a lot of money. Worse even are those...

This is very interesting. I have a Brother DCP-150C which also uses LC-37 cartridges. I liked it so much I bought one for my daughter as well. She called me one day and said that she had replaced some cartridges with off-brand ones, there had been some ink spilled inside the printer, and now...