| Companies from Hewlett Packard (HP) to Epson | | | | see is that it might even cause small rips in the |
| to Canon and many others have all now come | | | | paper because of the friction caused by the |
| out with what is known as recycled cartridges. | | | | contract between the ink and the page itself. |
| These recycled inkjet cartridges are essentially | | | | Ultimately, removing dried ink from your cartridge |
| the types of cartridge that you can either refill | | | | head is not a difficult thing to do. What you want |
| yourself at home or alternatively cartridges that | | | | to do is get a bowl of hot water and immerse |
| you can send in to companies like | | | | the ink cartridge head into that bowl of hot water |
| Hewlett-Packard for them to refill themselves. | | | | for a few minutes. The hot water will act on the |
| Hewlett-Packard inkjet cartridges nowadays for | | | | dried ink and release it, causing the ink to flow |
| example are usually going to be refillable simply | | | | into the water and away from the cartridge. |
| because the cost of HP inkjet cartridges has gone | | | | After the ink has been released and you don't |
| up so much that it really is not worth buying a | | | | see anything new being added to the water for a |
| new cartridge each time the printer inks run out. | | | | few seconds, you can then remove the cartridge |
| One of the problems that people sometimes run | | | | from the water and dry it using a cotton swab. |
| into when they have printer cartridges that are | | | | Once that's done, what you can then do is install |
| very old and have been refilled a number of times | | | | the cartridge back into your printer and run the |
| is a problem related to dried ink clogging the | | | | cleaning utility that comes as part of printer |
| cartridge up. This has two negative effects on | | | | software packages in today's world. You might |
| the print job as a whole. The first negative effect | | | | have to run it a number of times before you get |
| that it has is to obviously clog the cartridges up | | | | back the quality that you are after, but eventually |
| so that the ink that is coming out does not get | | | | you will find that the quality of the printing should |
| distributed in an even fashion across the page and | | | | go back to the levels it was at before you |
| what eventually happens there is streaking and | | | | encountered the dried ink problems. |
| uneven sections of ink density on the printed | | | | Ultimately, you might find that the cartridge head |
| page. The second negative effect is that if the | | | | is destroyed. If that turns out to be the case, |
| dried ink is dried in clumps along the bottom of | | | | then you are going to have to invest in a new |
| the cartridge head, then what you are going to | | | | cartridge. |