The Dirty Little Secret Of Inkjet Printers

Here's a surprising fact about inkjet printers that I don't think the manufacturers want you to know...

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Science & Technology

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• printer
• ink
• technology
• expensive

[bigmoney66b]

Also one should be careful dissembling a printer as you can skew it out of alignment. This is definitely not an EPSON, because EPSON squirts its ink on thick porous pads that absorb ink and it has a counter that stops printer before the pads become too soaked to avoid flooding printer with ink. I use refills mate, no more worries about ink costs. What is strange is how come you have a flood of ink in your printer, it's supposed to be directed to the pads, you might have a tubing problem

[AtomicShrimp]

@bigmoney66b

The pads in this one had rectangular cutouts in them - apparently designed that way so that the liquid components of the ink would wick into them, leaving mostly solids in the reservoir.

You're wrong about the brand - It was my intention to try to obscure it in the video, but this one was indeed an Epson - one of several that I took apart in similar circumstances (end of life due to full waste reservoir) - and they were all similarly mired with sludgy ink residue.

[chillichomper]

Ok. Nice little "secret". What is the solution? If no solution , workaround or mitigating action then this was 1:37 of wasted viewing time.

[AtomicShrimp]

@chillichomper

It is not necessary to formulate a solution in order to identify a problem. Laser printers are typically cheaper to run - or the solution might be just not printing so much.

[88beauzeau88]

The solution is to FIRST bypass the waste tank. When you get a new printer, before you ever hook it up, you should take it apart and lead the waste tank tube to the outside of the printer, into a bottle that you can easily empty from time to time. Then, you should hook up a CIS.

[bigmoney66b]

It's not a dirty little secret. Printers are required to pass ink through the nozzle at set intervals in order to keep the nozzles wet, otherwise, ink dries up and you get clogged nozzles . BTW, I don't know what brand of printer this is, but I have owned many EPSON printers and in all cases I would mod them to redirect the waste ink tube outside the printer to a bottle so my printer inside is dry and clean and so are the pads...squeaky clean.

[Nik121294]

@calutzubv dont buy an inkjet printer

[sasukesan767]

This is standard, even for the big 24" and 36" printers. I wouldn't say its a secret but its good to let people who didn't know, know. Also there are laser printers, including my own that waste toner because it re-calibrates it self, leaving loose toner all over the inside of my printer.

[wbmaxon]

Thank you for sharing.

[calutzubv]

and what's the point????

[Eihort]

Here's a dirty little secret: Printing isn't free.

[TheSillyification]

is the printer epson



[booboomanification]

@chillichomper there is a solution to it. a russian programmer made a program that will disable the error message and magically the printer works again