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Old December 24th 06, 04:38 PM posted to alt.collecting.pens-pencils
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wrote:

I'm wondering if we can't start a discussion of refilling inkjets. I've
been doing it about a decade and sometimes I fail miserably and others it
works just fine.


I'm afraid I can't shed any great light on the secrets of how to have a
100% success rate with refilling inkjets, only to say that I had a
client who was one of Europe's market leading toner cartridge
remanufacturers and a few years ago they decided it was time to move
into the inkjet market. They are now a market leader there too,
however the CEO there admitted to me that they initially tried to
refill inkjets with ink in-house and with no particularly specialist
machinery (which surprised me!) and they came highly unstuck. Their
initial offerings were rather hit and miss - which cost them dearly in
terms of wrecking (for a time) their good reputation and losing them
some clients. They subsequently invested in highly specialist ink
refilling machinery from the USA (which cost them tens of thousands of
pounds) and which did the job properly! This goes to prove, to me at
least, that there is rather a science to "proper" reliable inkjet
printing and even the big boys have got it wrong in the past. Having
said all that, if I hear of any tips, I'll pass them on. In fact I
must try to dig out the URL of a website which I ran into some years
ago which explained some of the more scientific requirements of inkjet
refilling and how to do it in a completely reliable manner.... if only
I could remember where it is....


Mark.
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Old December 24th 06, 09:03 PM posted to alt.collecting.pens-pencils
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Brian Ketterling wrote:

Mark wrote:
wrote:

...I had a
client who was one of Europe's market leading toner cartridge
remanufacturers and a few years ago they decided it was time to move
into the inkjet market...


Pelikan, by any chance?

...Their
initial offerings were rather hit and miss...


They were _awful_, money down the tube.


Absolutely not, Brian... really (but thanks for chipping in!).
However, even if it had been them, I'd have said no because I think you
could be in dangerous territory here, naming names and all that! Don't
want you (or me) to be sued by some large corporation and in any case
it was not the company you mentioned (and I'm not just saying that in
view of the above). I'll stick to my original description of "one of
Europe's market leading toner cartridge remanufacturers" to be on the
safe side. It was, in reality, a company whom many would not have heard
of, even though they apparently make the products 'behind' some of the
famous OEM brand names (allegedly). That's about as far as I think any
of us ought to go from now on, I think, so if anyone else wants to try
to guess the brand, I'll shall remain dumb from this moment onwards and
deny all knowledge (apologies in advance!!).

By the way, I ought to reiterate that the products which the anonymous
company [which is definitely NOT the one you mentioned] now makes are
excellent in all respects and can be recommended thoroughly (Can these
posts be edited after they've been posted, b.t.w.; you're worrying
me!).

Hey, by the way, happy Christmas!

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Old December 24th 06, 09:03 PM posted to alt.collecting.pens-pencils
Mark
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Brian Ketterling wrote:

Mark wrote:
wrote:

...I had a
client who was one of Europe's market leading toner cartridge
remanufacturers and a few years ago they decided it was time to move
into the inkjet market...


Pelikan, by any chance?

...Their
initial offerings were rather hit and miss...


They were _awful_, money down the tube.


Absolutely not, Brian... really (but thanks for chipping in!).
However, even if it had been them, I'd have said no because I think you
could be in dangerous territory here, naming names and all that! Don't
want you (or me) to be sued by some large corporation and in any case
it was not the company you mentioned (and I'm not just saying that in
view of the above). I'll stick to my original description of "one of
Europe's market leading toner cartridge remanufacturers" to be on the
safe side. It was, in reality, a company whom many would not have heard
of, even though they apparently make the products 'behind' some of the
famous OEM brand names (allegedly). That's about as far as I think any
of us ought to go from now on, I think, so if anyone else wants to try
to guess the brand, I'll shall remain dumb from this moment onwards and
deny all knowledge (apologies in advance!!).

By the way, I ought to reiterate that the products which the anonymous
company [which is definitely NOT the one you mentioned] now makes are
excellent in all respects and can be recommended thoroughly (Can these
posts be edited after they've been posted, b.t.w.; you're worrying
me!).

Hey, by the way, happy Christmas!

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Old December 25th 06, 08:43 AM posted to alt.collecting.pens-pencils
Brian Ketterling
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Mark wrote:
Brian Ketterling wrote:
They were _awful_, money down the tube.


However, even if it had been them, I'd have said no because I think you
could be in dangerous territory here, naming names and all that! Don't
want you (or me) to be sued by some large corporation...


I wouldn't want you being sued either, but I don't think they could sue me
for giving my considered opinion of a product I bought and tried, fair and
square (and tried more than once, just in case I'd gotten a bum cartridge or
two -- I was a fan of Pelikan ink).

Regarding the danger of pronouncing their true name, I don't want to open an
ark of worms -- would I be on safe ground if I just called them "Jehovah"?


Hey, by the way, happy Christmas!


You too, and to everyone else!

Brian
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