T&T: On-board Printer issues

[Ron Rogers]

That's a good insight. Perhaps a collapsed Ziplock bag with some moisture in 
it might be better. Many inkjet tanks use capillary action to transfer the 
ink from the tank to the printhead. On my Canon tanks you can see a felt 
like material in the bottom orifice. Thereafter, it's a piezo electric or 
thermal transfer. With disuse, the printhead will become clogged as well. 
For some makes there are cleaning cartridges, but now, with a chip in each 
cartridge you would have to clean the head or replace it after long disuse.

Ron Rogers

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob Zanussi" <rzanussi@shaw.ca>


|I have no idea what method gets the ink from the cartridge onto the paper,
| but I am wondering if the vacuum might suck the ink out of the cartridge?
| Sort of an effect of equalizing the pressure inside and outside the 
cartridge.