I wanted to share a method that has allowed me to use almost ALL the ink in my 440 cc carts. Out of weekend desperation I needed to finish a job and was out of....you guessed it...Magenta. I had been saving all the empty carts. to recycle so I decided to ignore the printer warning and continue to print until the cart ran dry. When it was empty I decided to weight and it weighted 288gm. Based on that I started weighing my so called empties to find that some weighted as much as 312gm based on that I started loading the carts one at a time and printed until they reached about 292-294 gm because I did not want to run dry again I just did that the first time to get a Baseline. I was lucky that the job was 3' x 3' banners so I could check the weight in between banners. I have been doing it with all my so called empties. I do it on smaller jobs so that a mess up is not that costly. I also break off the warning tab so that I do not have to listen to BEEP BEEP.
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Getting all the ink
- Thread starter bpatrick3
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CanuckSigns
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don't you run the risk of getting air in the lines? If that happens, wouldn't you loose any savings you got in time spent re-priming the lines?
Correct, and I did waste some ink the first time just to see what an empty cartridge should weight. Instead of wasting all 4 colors to prime up, in this case, magenta. I created a 50" by 2" file that was 100% magenta and printed it until I had magenta flowing again--it was primed on the 3rd try the first one did not print any magenta and it freaked me out but then the second time it was printing but a little uneven and the third was perfect. Now I just pull the cartridge at 292-294gm. and have not run dry, I might be able to push it to 290gm but I am not that greedy.
J Hill Designs
New Member
cool story
CanuckSigns
Active Member
I'm sure some will benefit from this tip, I just don't see the reason to fuss over 20 grams of ink (what is that in litres anyways?)
I realize that times are tight these days, but this seems like a "spending dollars to save pennies" situation to me.
I realize that times are tight these days, but this seems like a "spending dollars to save pennies" situation to me.
tpartrg310
New Member
i suck the ink out of all empties with a dedicated syrenge for each color and transfer the ink into a back up cartridge. Get as much as 45+ cc's each time from my roland cartridges.
gabagoo
New Member
I agree, the risk is not worth the reward..... I'm still using OEM inks and we are strill making money so not sure why you would risk possible service call$$$
20 grams is about 5 percent of the cartridge. While I agree with "spending dollars to save pennies" is useless. I only took the time to pass on this info because it is as easy as cake, once you know the numbers. Putting an ink cartridge on a scale it pretty easy, I hope that I am not sounding harsh, I just do not know how else to say it. I myself will probably continue to collect empties and then when time permits go back and use them up on a slower day or weekend or out of desperation.
That's cool, not sure what risk or what service call you are talking about.
CanuckSigns
Active Member
J Hill Designs
New Member
the possible one from air in lines, bottom-of-the-bag contamination, etc etc etc
Nice, your way may be even better or a combination of both.
Hey man, whatever works!
LOL, you got that
