Waste your printer ink wisely!
Did you know that when bought from the manufacturer, printer ink costs more than oil, by weight?
Sure you did. Which is why you wisely invested in a $20 kit and got good with a syringe and refill your cartridges until they decay into dust. You don’t like to be gypped into buying sixty bucks of cartridges every couple months any more than I do. Hopefully you wear gloves, or you’ll also have black, blue and red fingers like I often do.
Once you’re a veteran of this process, however, you’ll inevitably run into the following horrid scenario: while wrangling with a tri-color cartridge, you’ll accidentally get ink into the wrong hole. And that’s it — even one drop and you’ve contaminated your whole supply.
What to do? If you flush the cartridge, you’ll ruin the ink in the other chambers, and especially if they’re both relatively full, that’s a lot of waste. Printing test pages until all three cartridges run dry sucks too.
Thankfully, I’ve now had this problem enough (what with refilling the office printers too) that I’ve decided to formalize my solution: Pages of just one color, for an economical, quick way to burn the ink out of just one segment of a tri-color cartridge. Set the quality to “high” and print out a few of the mangled color’s corresponding page, and voila; fouled ink jettisoned.
P.S. If you care about this post, you spend too much time around computers, like me.
P.S. again: If you’re a printer manufacturer and you have a problem with people circumventing your precious market-manipulation ripoff, I some lip exercises for you…
-PD
These files are intended to not use any ink besides the color in one segment of a yellow/cyan/magenta (yellow/blue/red) cartridge. They work on different printers fo rme but you may have to adjust the exact color for yours.