Here at hpprintercartridges.co.uk we often get order from distant countries, but since we don’t ship outside the UK then we unfortunately can’t do anything other than refund the order and inform the customer.
It’s always a shame to send a customer away, so from now on we’ll try and recommend a cartridge company from the country they’re ordering from. Well today we’re letting you know about our friends on the other side of the world, Australia to be more precise.
Let me introduce you to ink hub the printer ink cartridges specialists. They are an Australian company with great prices on all their printer cartridges, high quality compatible and genuine ink cartridges, excellent customer service and a 30 day money back guarantee.
So if you’re in Australia and need ink cartridges then you know where to go!
Did your camera just run out of batteries again? Or maybe you lost the USB lead to transfer your photographs onto your PC? Well maybe it’s time for you to use some older technology.
This fun DIY project made by Dippold will have you gluing and snipping away till you end up with your own simple but very affective pinhole camera.
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This handmade epson ink cartridge lamp is made from just that, and it looks wierdly cool. Its fairly expensive if you want one at $200, but so are the cartridges that its made from. Its the second best thing you can do with your empty ink cartridges, the first being sending them in to us to recycle.
I bet that at some point in your life you’ve wondered what would happen if you put an ink cartridge in a microwave. Actually the though probabily has never crossed your mind, but I’m going to show you a video of someone microwaving a cartridge anyway. (Don’t try this at home)
It’s roughly how I imagined what it would look like, a burning plastic mess in a microwave.
I’ve seen alot of this sort of thing lately, there are loads of videos and articles about science research labs actually printing human cells, sheets of skin, fingers and even organs. This stuff is crazy futuristic stuff, and I’ve had a little dig around and found some great videos of some of the printers and things they’ve created.
This first video is from a U.S. military research lab that have developed an awsome treatment for severe burns by printing new skin straight onto wherever the skin is missing. They grow skin cells from a patients body and insert them into a sterile ink cartridge and then the printer uses a 3d scan of the wound to guide the printing. All this using a modified inkjet printer.
The second video is part of a series of videos on gizmodo. One of the videos showing scientists at the Wake Forest Institute using inkjet technology to print a small two-chamber heart to illustrate the process of creating an organ! Just follow this link.
This last video I think is also from the Wake Foerst Institute and it shows a bladder and a heart valve created using the same technology and it also explains in more detail how the organs are built up in 3d cell by cell.
Some of this is unbelievable, but it’s all happening. If you want to see more just do a youtube search and you will find a load of videos on the subject of printing organs, etc.
There are alot of eco-printer concepts about lately and the Pencil Printer is one of the most innotive ones I’ve seen so far.
The Pencil Printer by Hoyoung Lee may only be a concept but it’s a great idea. It grounds down pencil stubs to create a fine lead powder similar to the powder used in toner cartridges. Aswell as printing it can also erase in the proccess if you have made any mistakes within the documen. It’s a great concept for anyone who wants to print of documents that would need to be edited alot but is also eco-friendly.
If only the big companies would sponser some of these eco-friendly concepts.
Lets face it, the current printer technology we all use on a daily basis is old. Printer ink and toner cartridges have been around for ages, surely something new and more eco-friendly must be on the way. Well printer technology has still been advancing even though the advances don’t seem to be effecting the mainstream for example ink-less and toner-less printers do exist, but are either to expensive or just not available to the public. Most of these “advances” seem to be aimed towards making a more eco-friendly printer, such as the PrePeat printer.
The PrePeat printer doesn’t use ink or toner, instead it uses a special thermal head to print. The thing that makes this printer even more eco-friendly is that it can recycle paper. You can put in a piece of paper that already has something printed on it, and the printer erases it using the thermal head and prints straight back on to the paper.
This all sounds great, looks like we might be out of business selling ink and toner cartridges…
Or maybe not, the printer isn’t really as perfect as it may seem. The main downfall is that the printer only uses a special type of plastic paper, this paper only comes in reams of 1000 sheets and costing around £2.12 a sheet it’s not the cheapest way to save the planet. The printer itself costs over £3500 and although you can use a sheet of the plastic paper up to 1000 times, I still don’t think it’s the answer to our eco-printing problems… yet.
Lately HP seem to be questioned a lot about their cartridge prices, and there’s no reason why they shouldn’t be. The reason this has come to mind is because I have been looking at the page yield for a couple of HP cartridges on the official HP site. For those of you who don’t know, page yield is basically the number of pages you can print with a give printer and cartridge.
The cartridge product pages on the HP site do specify the approximate cartridge yield, but they do not specify what the cartridge yield is based on and to find this out on the HP site is almost impossible. HP use the the ISO 24711 testing guidelines, for more information you can go to this page on the HP site: http://h10060.www1.hp.com/pageyield/articles/uk/en/IsoInkjetYield.html (had to bookmark it to be able to find it again). But basically they print out 5 test pages (image on the right) one after the other over and over again until the printer says the cartridge is empty.
Although you would think that the tests are carried out to give the buyer an insight into how many pages they will get out of their cartridge, HP state that the results they get may not be what you will experience for regular every day printing. One of the reasons for this is that when you use your printer at home, you will usually print out one or a couple of pages and then not use the printer again until you next need to, and while your printer is not printing it will still use ink to keep the nozzle clear. Whereas when HP do their tests they will print continuously and because of this get more pages out of the ink cartridge.
To be fair, all this information is on the HP site, the only problem is finding it. I’m sure a regular buyer doesn’t want to trail round the site looking for this information when all they want is to quickly buy an ink cartridge.
