Ausjet Inkjet & Laser Supplies Blog
Saturday night at the movies
Recycler promoted new industry DVD 'It's Your Choice' at Remax 2010. It was shown at an event called Saturday Night at the Movies. Watch the video below.
It's Your Choice from Recycler TV on Vimeo.
Ausjet Deal : Free Pool Table
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FREE POOL TABLE + ACCESSORIES + FREE DELIVERY!
CONDITIONS: Goods must be purchased on one invoice and shipped on or before the 28th February. Offer applies only to goods in stock. Goods will be delivered free of charge. *See shipping note at bottom of this page Offer only open to Australian resellers. Offer ends 28th February or if our stock of pool tables are depleted. Choice of colours is limited to stock availability. However, we will try to get you your colour of choice. Pool Billiards Snooker Table Blue or Green Felt A fantastic pool / snooker table package with everything you need to complete the ultimate pool room. See below for heaps of FREE extra's. A stylish and modern design, this pool table consists of a deep blue/Green playing surface on a wood grain finish completed with ultra modern chrome corners. The modern design of this table will suit any home, bar or garage. FEATURES: ·Automatic ball return system ·Smooth Blue felt (green also available) ·Wood grain finish ·Height adjustable chrome finish feet ·Hardened MDF Base ·Soft table cover for protection ·Solid construction weighing 115+kgs! ·This table has not been marked with a pool D or Snooker spots. Dimensions: 7 Ft. 213cm x 112cm x 84cm. Table Top Height: 25cm. Weight 114kg. 8 Ft. 243cm x 132cm x 81cm. Table Top Height: 25cm. Weight 140kg. FREE ACCESSORIES: ·1 x pool ball set ·1 x snooker ball set ·2 x pool cues ·2 x snooker cues ·2 x bride stick ·1 x pool table cover ·1 x wooden triangle ·1 x plastic triangle ·1 x score board ·1 x table brush ·1 x kelly ball set ·2 x chalk ·1 x head cue ·1 x bridge head cue ·1 x 7-pc cue rack This package has been designed to fit into a flat pack carton (2.3 x 1.33 x 0.27m) to minimise chances of damage during transport. Each table comes securely packaged in wood for peace of mind. This ensures it is safe on its journey to your front door. Installation: 90% complete, simply screw in the legs and you are all setup to develop your stick skills with your mates! Stop staring at the TV and fine tune your pool play or snooker tactics in your own home. *SHIPPING: Please note, this item is large and the driver will require assistance to off-load at your residence/shop. If you live in a rural area, home delivery may not be available due to its size and you may be requested to collect from the nearest depot. Please contact us for more information.  Phone: (07) 3823 5433 Fax: (07) 3823 5422 Email:sales@ausjetinks.com.au Web:www.ausjetinks.com.au | ||
Technical Bulletin 15-02-10
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Technical Bulletin 15-02-10 Information on the new Virix Printhead using Lexmark 100 cartridges (Video) Epson - Printing circuit boards with inkjet Prints Printing bones with inkjet printers Using Epson R280 to manipulate Genes Phone: (07) 3823 5433 Fax: (07) 3823 5422 Email:sales@ausjetinks.com.au Web:www.ausjetinks.com.au | |
Weekly Deal & Cli-521 available now!
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 Portable Battery Powered! Resets OEM and Procolor Cartridges Deal of the Week Ends Wednesday 3rd Feb Procolor 73N & 81N Cartridges  73N Bk C M Y Normal Price $3.75 NOW $2.65 81N Bk C M Y lc lm Normal Price $4.45 NOW $2.65 Procolor 73N and 81N can also be reset by our Procolor 9 Pin resetter. To redeem the above offers you must order either online at www.ausjetinks.com.au or call and quote the code below: * This Weeks Code Is : Candles *
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Friday 22nd January - Ausjet mid year stocktake (Closed from 1PM) $19.95 $11.95 $11.95 $11.95 $11.95 Phone: (07) 3823 5433 Fax: (07) 3823 5422 Email:sales@ausjetinks.com.au Web:www.ausjetinks.com.au | |||||||||||
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Point of Sale Products in Stock Now
(Click on the above images to see our complete line of 50+ POS products) Products include : Alarm clocks that fly away from you so you have to get out of bed to turn it off Mini RC controlled Helicopters for when the boss is away Moshi power and battery Alarm Clocks - Voice Activated Alarm Clocks Soccer Ball Mouse - Celebrate the World Cup by scoring your own goals Cute Mouses(mice) Porsche Mouse with LED lights The most popular body Mouse Webcams Solar powered flowers that sway under sunlight Plus much much more Cli-521 (Portable) Battery Resetter update (For OEM and Procolor) The battery powered version of the Pgi-520\Cli-521 resetter will be here by end next week. We would like to thank many of our customers for preordering the resetter and I am pleased to inform you that all of your resetters are now guaranteed for delivery. After resetting over 200+ cartridges and testing on various Australian printer models it has achieved our quality tick. At Ausjet we continually work hard to bring you resetting solutions for OEM and PROCOLOR cartridges. New Cli-521 (Permanent) Mains Powered Resetter Requires a power socket on your workbench, a more permanent solution where portability is not an issue the Mains powered version of the resetter could be the solution for you. This resetter (redsetter type) is a different design to the portable resetter and we will begin testing on this model early next week. If all goes well these resetters will be shipped to us in the 1st week of February. Ausjet is a proud member of: Phone: (07) 3823 5433 Fax: (07) 3823 5422 Email:sales@ausjetinks.com.au Web:www.ausjetinks.com.au | |||||||||||||||||
Preorder your CLi-521 Resetter Now
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New Product Releases
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New Products We have just completed testing a resetter for the Pgi-520\Cli-521 cartridges and it works on the original and procolor range of cartridges. The delivery date for this product is about 1-2 weeks away. Due to the expected high demand we would highly advise that you preorder so you don't miss out on the first shipment. Pg-510\Cl-511 Cartridge Clips now Available A new clip is now available for the PG-510\CL-511 and the high yield versions PG-512\CL-513 cartridges. These cartridges are becoming more and more popular. This clip offers a very good solution for sealing the printhead and provides protection for the electrical contacts against scratches and dents. Compatible Kodak Series 10 Cartridges Arriving Soon The Kodak series 10 equipped AIO printers have been in the Australian market for quite a while now. They use two chipped cartridges one which is Black and the other is a 5 colour(CMYcm) cartridge. The cartridges are a foam based tank configuration with the printhead inside the printer. The cartridges will work in the following Kodak AIOs - AiO ESP3, AiO ESP5, AiO ESP7, AiO 5300, AiO 5500. Point of Sale Products in Stock Now We have a wide range of new point of sale products that have just arrived in our warehouse. Back by popular demand is the ever popular novelty computer mouses(mice) and we also have new novelty mousepads as well. The amazing Moshi 'talking' alarm clock is now available in battery or mains powered versions. Plus many many more unique point of sale products to help add additional $$ to your invoices. Don't miss out on the opportunity to add another product to your customers orders. Ausjet is a proud member of: Phone: (07) 3823 5433 Fax: (07) 3823 5422 Email:sales@ausjetinks.com.au Web:www.ausjetinks.com.au | |
Technical Bulletin - 07-12-09
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Technical Bulletin 7-12-09 Phone: (07) 3823 5433 Fax: (07) 3823 5422 Email:sales@ausjetinks.com.au Web:www.ausjetinks.com.au | |
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PC-CLI-521M PC-CLI-521Y H2WL2 - Budget Pigment Ink To redeem the above offers you must order either online at www.ausjetinks.com.au or call and quote the code below: * This Weeks Code Is: Movember *
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Technical bulletin - 27-11-09
Ausjet Cartridge Selector:
We have spent a lot of time recently updating our cartridge selector on our website. From our cartridge selector you can find the following information :
Which cartridges are used in selected printers
Which inks, instructions, clips and seals etc we have for the cartridge you are searching for.
Photos and descriptions of products.
Its a good tool for you to easily find information about our products. I hope you make good use of it.
Procolor Pgi-520\Cli-521 Resetter available Soon:
We have just had final confirmation that the development for this Procolor resetter is now complete. This is GREAT NEWS as this means that finally a reset solution is available for your customers that use these printer models. You can now refill and reset the procolor Pgi-520\Cli-521 cartridges to fully functional with full ink levels.
Epson 73N firmware upgrade:
We have heard from various sources that Epson has released a new update with the 73n which as usual will cause a bit of havoc with compatible Epsons. Fortunately at this stage our Procolor chip seems to be handling most firmware issues quite well.
Resetting Procolor Pgi-5\Cli-8 with our Mean Green Resetter:
As well as resetting the OEM pgi-5\cli-8 range of cartridges the mean green resetter will also reset the Procolor range. A recent update to the chip on these cartridges has had the effect of a slight change to the resetter procedure. Previously when you reset the procolor cartridges the red light would stay on at the end of the reset, now the only indication of the chip been reset is that the chip light flashes once. But don't worry, one flash indicates that the chip is reset.
From ink injection to the nozzle plate (Thermal foam based cartridges) - An Overlook On How It All Works
Ink injection:
No matter what filling equipment you use, you should aim to accomplish at least the same fill volume as the OEM cartridge. There are a number of factors that can contribute to this not occuring.
1) Speed of filling - you may be filling too quickly resulting in frothing of the ink.
2) Condition of foam - its current state - how hydrophilic the foam current is. Cleaning the foam and allowing to dry is often used to bring the foam back to a hydrophylic state.
3) Air trapped in the foam - Removal of air from the foam(vacuum filling) greatly increases the chance of filling to the correct ink volume.
Inkjet Foam(sponge):
A high percentage of all OEM cartridges on the market are foam based. In our industry many people refer to the foam as a sponge but this technically isn't correct. Over the last few years the OEM's have been (generally) producing higher density foams. If you look at different types of inkjet foams you will see that generally speaking in older foams it is quite easy to see the cell structure, whereas in more recent foams the density has increased and its almost impossible to see the cell.
The foam is also responsible for creating the backpressure (commonly referred to as negative pressure). The backpressure stops the ink from leaking. It is critical to have the right ink matched to the right foam as well. Ink has to have the right viscosity to have the correct flow rate through the foam. The correct viscosity ensures that the backpressure is not too high. Over a period of time too much backpressure will result in the ink actually been withdrawn back from the printhead into the foam.
Gauze Filter :
Before the ink passes through to the printhead area, it is important that the filter stops potentially nozzle clogging particles. The nozzle sizes these days are approx between 10-20 micron in diameter. As you can imagine, without the filter there would be lots of problems. It is also important that the filter does not have dried ink attached to it as this will restrict the flow to the prechamber which may cause flow problems during printing.
Prechamber and channels:
The prechamber is the area where the ink is pooled. Channels running from the prechamber connect with all the nozzle chambers. It is very important that the correct amount of ink is in the prechamber, as again no ink or low ink is this area may cause flow problems and ink starvation to the printhead.
This is the common reason why you can't just fill a cartridge and expect it to work. You really need to prime the printhead which pulls ink from the foam into the prechamber and into the nozzles. The same result can also be achieved by centrifugal force - a manual priming function built into a centrifuge is a big asset.
Heaters/Resistors :
For every nozzle inside the printhead there is also a heater/resistor attached to it. The heater/resistor is what causes the ink to 'jet' onto the paper. A small voltage is applied to the heater to activate that nozzle, the resistor then heats up causing a vapour bubble to be created. The expansion of the vapour bubble takes up space in the chamber displacing the ink and this forces the ink to jet out. All thermal printhead designs rely on the vapour bubble to fire the ink out of the printhead. They have varied designs with Canon calling their technology bubblejet and HP calling their's roofshooter (because it has the ability to jet upside down).
In many of the new printheads there are as many as 3000 nozzles, which means 3000 heaters/resistors in that small area. Simply amazing technology if you think about the size and the speed it all works at.
There is a number of factors which result in the failure of the heater/nozzle :
1) Age - like many electronic items - don't expect them to last forever.
2) Printing without ink firing onto the page can cause a problem - this means that ink is not filling up the nozzle chamber. This results in the heater/resistors firing but with no ink in the chamber to move the heat away will result in this area becoming hotter than expected. Nowadays printheads seem to be more tolerant to this problem than they were in earlier days, but it is quite possible that this could be weakening the resistors which could lead to an earlier failure than expected.
3) Constant creation and collapse of the vapour bubble will eventually result in the walls of the nozzle chamber breaking and damaging the heater. More and more technological advances in this area have resulted in various patented layers of materials placed between the resistor and the chamber to prevent this from happening. Recent advances have allowed longer life thermal printheads from manufacturers such as Canon, HP and Lexmark.
4) Kogation - from the japanese word 'koga' meaning biscuit. Refers to the build up that can occur on resistors over time. Too much build up may result in a weakened vapour bubble which does not produce an accurate jet or eventual failure. A good cleaning system that is not linear and can clean around corners like an ultrasonic cleaner is the best to remove kogation. It has recently been discovered than some inkjet inks may results in more kogation than others, it's another reason why you should only choose a quality ink.
With the good mark one gets from refilling inkjet cartridges, I personally cannot understand why anyone would not choose to use the best ink available to them. There are many factors that cannot be seen inside the printhead that may result in earlier failure due to not using a high quality ink which has premium components which prevent these issues. The difference in costs per refill between a premium and bodgy ink are cents. Why risk losing a customer or reducing the number of refills you can do because of a few cents per refill?
You can test the resistors by purchasing circuit testers. They will test each resistor and confirm that they are all within the correct working resistance range. This is the only way to know for sure the state of the resistors.
If a resistor has failed this means
1 Failed Resistor = 1 Failed Nozzle
A failed resistor may also cause a break in a series of resistors and could result in :
1 Failed Resistor = Many Failed Nozzles
Nozzle Plate :
The nozzle plate is the part of the printhead we see. Nozzle blockage will occur here. It's a very simple case of the water evaporating out of the ink at the nozzle position. No matter what environment you are in, evaporation will happen (even in an air conditioned office) .Depending on the formulation, water makes up 50%-70% of the ink and with the removal of water the viscosity of the ink becomes much thicker and eventually dries which causes the blockage. A longer period exposed to the environment will also result in drying of the ink in the channels, prechamber and on the filter. This will of course require more cleaning activity to get the cartridge working correctly.
I hope this information has been helpful to you.
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