Nah! I think I'm more in line for a transfusion. You plum wore me down to a frazzle. ;-)
Tony Jerry Yeager wrote: > Hopefully he has replenished his first aid supplies... grin. > > Jerry > > On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 01:55 AM, Tony LaFemina wrote: > >> C'mon Jerry. Don't you have any compassion for Ward's lip? I put this >> discussion behind me until I have something concrete to support my >> claims. Here's three basic and fairly inexpensive ways I know of to >> measure fluid levels. >> 1. mechanical - The dipstick for measuring the oil in your car. >> 2. electronic - The variable capacitor (or resistor) in your car's >> gas tank. I don't know if that's been updated or not. >> 3. optical - A light source on one side of a container, and a >> receiving unit on the opposite side. >> >> I believe any other systems would be more sophisticated and costly. >> Keep the fires burning. "I'll be back". >> >> Tony >> >> >> Yeager wrote: >> >>> >>> On Saturday, January 4, 2003, at 10:54 PM, Tony LaFemina wrote: >>> >>> <<portions cut out>> >>> >>>> Nothing technical was stated to support Jerry's claims, and >>>> electrostatic charges aren't going to cut it. >>>> >>> >>> I think I see the difficulty here. So that we are clear on this, I >>> will start with a paraphrasing of the original question again: >>> >>> Q: Why does Epson recommend not taking out half used cartridges? >>> >>> A: There are TWO (not ONE, but TWO) reasons. Earlier I had listed >>> both reasons in one paragraph, but I will break them into smaller >>> chunks. >>> >>> 1) The first is the way the cartridges work in Epson printers. >>> Cartridges that are inserted must be electrostatically charged so >>> that the ink flows out. This charging must be done each time a >>> cartridge is inserted and doing it repeatedly wastes ink. (This is a >>> standard approach for many ink-jet printers. Other printers use >>> techniques similar to the dye-sublimation type of technology where >>> the ink is forced out of the cartridge by heating. Both methods have >>> benefits. >>> >>> 2) EARLY versions of OS-X printer drivers were not completed when >>> they were first released. This was true for all of them, including >>> Apple's. The drivers in ink jet printers did not correctly report >>> remaining ink levels if a cartridge was removed and reinserted. >>> >>> Thus Epson told their customers not to yank the cartridges out until >>> they were empty. >>> >>> Dig mon? >>> >>> Jerry >>> >>> >>>> If I'm still allowed to be a part of the list, I'll try my best to >>>> keep responses down to one e-mail, but I can't make any guarantees. >>>> >>> >>> No reason you wouldn't be?????? >>> >>>> >>>> >> -- Tony LaFemina Major in Layout & Design Techniques Minor in Software Fundamentals http://hometown.aol.com/visitmacland/index.html mailto:remacs at optonline.net | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
