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From what I can gather one of the biggest selling points of the multi cartridge printers are that you can easily change one cartridge (When empty) without wasting ink in the other cartridges, well I can tell you that’s total rubbish.
For most printer users this sounds like a great idea but in actual fact it’s a hugely wasteful way to run your printer whether you’re using new OEM cartridges or not and dedicated OEM ink users should beware of this.
As others have pointed out this practice wastes more ink than you could ever imagine, it can be as much as 12 ml (Depending on printer model) in every complete set of cartridges you have purchased. (1 extra cartridge)
Now that can be as much as10% maybe more of the most expensive liquid on earth all because your following the manufactures own guidelines, does this sound fair or right to you.
Your cartridge is out of ink so you change it, and your printer does a cleaning cycle and you then think you can get back to doing your next photo print, well think again because this cleaning cycle has most lightly near emptied another cartridge on you.
So you change that one too and you get a repeat cleaning performance from the printer now you may in fact manage to get one or two prints more before the same darn thing happens again and again till you have replaced every one of the cartridge in the print head.
But it doesn’t end there because by the time you have replaced all the cartridges with new ones at least 30% of these cartridges are now at or below 50% full again and your cycle of replacing the cartridges will begin all over.
To stop this wanting waste when one of your cartridges is showing empty you change all of your cartridges that are now showing 50% full or below with a complete set of new ones.
Don’t dump these cartridges but place them in a box labelled 50% full and the others in another box labelled 25% full, now you have a record of two lots of used cartridges.
The next time another cartridge shows empty, repeat the above process and when you have got enough replaced cartridges in the box of 50% you can use them to fill the print head and the same goes for the 25% lot when you have enough of them.
This exercise is for photographers who only wish to use new OEM cartridges every time and not for the ardent refiller, the refiller however can use this method to save on ink if he wishes too..
For most printer users this sounds like a great idea but in actual fact it’s a hugely wasteful way to run your printer whether you’re using new OEM cartridges or not and dedicated OEM ink users should beware of this.
As others have pointed out this practice wastes more ink than you could ever imagine, it can be as much as 12 ml (Depending on printer model) in every complete set of cartridges you have purchased. (1 extra cartridge)
Now that can be as much as10% maybe more of the most expensive liquid on earth all because your following the manufactures own guidelines, does this sound fair or right to you.
Your cartridge is out of ink so you change it, and your printer does a cleaning cycle and you then think you can get back to doing your next photo print, well think again because this cleaning cycle has most lightly near emptied another cartridge on you.
So you change that one too and you get a repeat cleaning performance from the printer now you may in fact manage to get one or two prints more before the same darn thing happens again and again till you have replaced every one of the cartridge in the print head.
But it doesn’t end there because by the time you have replaced all the cartridges with new ones at least 30% of these cartridges are now at or below 50% full again and your cycle of replacing the cartridges will begin all over.
To stop this wanting waste when one of your cartridges is showing empty you change all of your cartridges that are now showing 50% full or below with a complete set of new ones.
Don’t dump these cartridges but place them in a box labelled 50% full and the others in another box labelled 25% full, now you have a record of two lots of used cartridges.
The next time another cartridge shows empty, repeat the above process and when you have got enough replaced cartridges in the box of 50% you can use them to fill the print head and the same goes for the 25% lot when you have enough of them.
This exercise is for photographers who only wish to use new OEM cartridges every time and not for the ardent refiller, the refiller however can use this method to save on ink if he wishes too..
