HP inkjet with high capacity black

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> My aging 820 has starting to have problems picking paper,


Rub the pick-up rollers with sandpaper, or similar abrasive.
Do it **gently** and cover the entire surface of each roller.

Works wonders ...


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"Bob Headrick" <bobh@proaxis.com> wrote in message
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> > Speaking of volume, is any of the new blacks come
> > in a cartridge with more than 21 ml of ink?
>
> The Business Inkjet 1200 has 69mL black cartridges.

I know that those ink only cartridges are are all relatively high
volume. (didn't know the exact #, though) What I meant to ask
whether there is a high volume (say, >30 ml) black cartridge with
a 15/16 pl drop size and a built in printhead like the venerable 45.
I know that the spring bag can hold quite a bit of ink.

>> How does the "Vivera" inkset differs from the ones used in the
>
> Waterfastness is similar. Both waterfastness and
> lightfastness are heavily influenced by the paper. Unfortunately paper
> excellent for one is generally only fair for the other.

Is there any coating that can be put on a printout without any
degradation or adverse effect to protect it from water and
sweaty hands? If I remember right, Canon had (or have) a
printer that actually did that.

> As it turns out most of the composition of a typical photo
> is actually in the gray levels. When the gray cartridge was
> proposed I must confess I was not a big supporter, but in
> side by side comparisons it does provide noticeably improved
> details.

Yes indeed. As for the number of inks, do you see any further
expansion? I can't imagine many more shades within the current
colors (yellow is light as-is), but I think in professional printing
there's also violet and orange inks.

TIA

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"Bob Headrick" <bobh@proaxis.com> wrote in message
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> If the real question you are asking is "is there a black print cartridge
with
> a 15 or 16 pL drop size that will give an equivalent page yield as the
> venerable HP #45 cartridge?" the answer would be yes. The #96 cartridge,
> although rated at 21mL of ink, is rated at 800 pages per cartridge in the
> DeskJet 6540 printer. This compares favorably with the 833 page yield of
the
> larger #45 cartridge.

OK, that's good to know, assuming the coverage was the same.
I guess the "side effect" of this is no more soaked paper when printing
large black areas.

>
> What kind of printing do you want to do?

I mostly do black text (source code) with some webpages thrown in,
but girlfriend just filled up a 512 mb CF card 3 times (!!) during a few
days in Hawaii, so I do expect some photo printing in the near future,
unless we can get those printed out for a reasonable price somewhere
else. She does have a reasonably recent Deskjet (much newer than
my 820) she bought for around $100 without consulting with me first,
so of course it has small cartridges. :-(

For myself, I'm leaning toward a 1200dn, but I might get a more photo
oriented printer both of us could use, or maybe one solely for photos
and one for everything else. I just need to get acquinted with the pros
and cons of the currently available inkjet printers.