[YLUG] My laptop has died : (

[Varsani, Rajendrakumar (PSD)]

It is a sad, sad day .. I am without my technical electrical friend.

Does anyone have a laptop they'd like to sell me? Just needs to browse
the internet through broadband and run my mobile phone software and
Bluetooth dongle really so it needs USB. Little more.

Failing that, anyone got a regular PC they'd like to sell me?

Failing that, any pointers to a cheap (internet) shop?

Rajendrakumar Varsani BSc (Hons)
Tel:   (01904) 455805 (GTN 5138 5805)

-----Original Message-----
From: york-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:york-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Gaffer
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 6:53 PM
To: york at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [YLUG] Epson print cartridges

On Wednesday 04 October 2006 03:57, David Harker Inscribed Thus:
> Roger Leigh wrote:
> > David Harker <david.harker at oneiria.co.uk> writes:
> >> I look after the PC of a member of my family for her and had to
> >> resort to google when all 3 of the colour ink cartridges in her
> >> epson decided simultaneously that they had run out despite barely
> >> any use. To cut a long story short I'm now the proud owner of a
> >> little gadget to reset the "ink level" (read: "death clock") chips
> >> in them. I don't have an epson and have no idea if it works yet
> >> but if anyone else does and has experienced a similar problem then
> >> I'd be happy to bring it along one evening and zap you. Would be
> >> interesting to see how much more ink you can get out of those
> >> things.
> >
> > The chip should store the amount of ink used; IIRC it actually
> > counts the volume of droplets fired, which is in the picolitre
> > range.  Unless there is a fault, it should deliberately leave some
> > ink in the cartridge (though not much).  This is in order to
> > prevent air and dirt being drawn into the printhead, which would
> > happen if you drained it completely.  The nozzles in the head are
> > very fine precision piezoelectric crystals, and dirt will clog them
> > (potentially irreversibly).
> >
> > If the chip is definitely wrong, it might be safer to return the
> > cartridge for a replacement.  If you reset the chip when the
> > cartridge is half-full, for example, you do risk ruining the
> > printer when it gets fully drained.
> >
> > If you aren't using it already, the "escputil" tool does the ink
> > level checking for Epson printers on Linux.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Roger
>
> Well if that is the case (sounds reasonable to me) then why have all
> three cartridges simultaneously died while very nearly full? Smells
> more than a bit fishy to me! They aren't "half-full", they're about
> 90% full *minimum*. Really not used at all past a bit of testing and
> a couple of copies. There is absolutely no way that they're even
> *close* to running out. I'm still crying foul play by Epson.
>
> David

One way to check and make sure is to weigh them when new and again when 
empty !  You might be surprised !

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