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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:06:18 -0400
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From: Richard Moore <rmm@cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Refilling Inkjet Cartridges?

Jim Skees wrote:
> 
>   The H-P black ink cartidges for the small H-P
> inkjet printer I have at home are rather expensive.
> With tax, the bill comes to about $25.00.  When I
> was at Office Max yesterday, I noticed that NuKote
> is selling an ink refilling kit for these H-P cartidges.
> Anyone have any experience with this?  Do these kits
> do the job and are they easy to use?

I used this type of kit to refill an Epson inkjet printer cartridge and
it wasn't too bad. I've refilled a single cartridge 2 or 3 times without
making a mess (although the potential is really there!). Performance
was the same after modifying and refilling the cartridge, as far as
I could tell.

Rich