Sunday, 27 April 2008

Printer Ink - A Step Up From the Standard Typewriter Ribbon


Decades ago when you pounded away at your typewriter trying to produce a document or type up a letter to family you did not have to worry about printer ink. All you had to worry about was the typewriter ribbon running out then you would have to re-wind the spool to get one more use from it before you changed the ribbon. Today it's a lot simpler and a lot neater than the old style typewriter ribbon. All you need is to change your printer ink when your printer runs out. All you have to do is pull the little plastic sheet off the end and put it into its receptor slot and you're ready to print more documents from of your printer.

One of the most frustrating things about printer ink is not having enough ink in the container. Sometimes when you print out something the images are blurry, faint, or have lines going through them that make them look incomplete. This could happen because the ink is low. There is no one certain method to check all ink levels in all ink cartridges. You can check your printer documentation to find out how to check for your particular model or you just run out a test page and see if there are any issues with the printing output. Take out the print cartridge and clean the receptors on the cartridge. There could be printer ink residue that is clogging the images from being put on the paper. Once you clean the cartridges put the printer ink container back into the printer and print a test page. If the test page comes out okay then all you had was just a clogging problem. If you run a test page and it comes out with problems you probably need to change the printer ink.

There are many different ways for you to refill your printer ink. The simplest way is to buy another ink cartridge from either an online or brick-and-mortar supply shop. You can also buy a recyclable ink cartridge in which once the printer ink is gone from the cartridge you can send it to a company and they will give you a discount on a full one. This is ecologically sound and also provides a good, cheaper source of printer ink. Another source of printer ink is from a refill kit. Some people like to use the refill kit but others have said that in some models of printers it is messy and time-consuming. You just have to find out what the best printer ink refill method is for you.

No matter what method that you choose to refill your printer remember that it is a lot easier than what your parents or grandparents went through with typewriter ribbon. The printing industry has come a long way and printer ink is as technologically advanced as the printers they go into. So, when you have to change your printer ink the next time remember that back in the day it was not so easy.