Ink cartridge
An ink cartridge (including the ink cartridge ) is an ink -filled container, which is used in ink jet printers and the time necessary for the pressure during printing.
Inkjet cartridges are manufactured and hand over the ink, if the print head is not firmly attached to the cartridge, usually via a puncture or a spongy area of contact to the print head in different designs. Together is typically a pressure compensation system that is on the top of the cartridge can be often carried out as a labyrinth (eg, company labels) afterflow air, without the ink may leak through the fine channel.
In many ink-jet printers, the print head is integrated into the cartridge. Ink cartridges ( cartridges for ink) for printers may be filled as a pure liquid container in the appropriate form with a foam sponge in addition to the design, which holds the ink in its pores or consist of a vacuum system. Differences arise in addition to limitations imposed by patents through various approaches to ensure an even flow of ink in any pressure situation. Here the printing technique and fluidity of the ink plays a role, as problems with mobile printers.
In this market segment, the manufacturer, for environmental reasons have to take back all used cartridges by law. For example, fall alone 500 tons of empty HP cartridges per year.
Unused ink cartridges in exchange
Modern printer cartridges frequently have a microchip that stores the level of a cartridge change out, especially after a refill. Some manufacturers, including Epson and Hewlett -Packard, were each indicted in the United States because their equipment ahead of the fill level "empty" angäben as before there would be actually no substantial amount of ink more.
A study by TÜV Rheinland of 2007 showed that some printers more than half of the ink is disposed of unused. In monochrome cartridges remained between 9% and 64% (Kodak EasyShare 5300), an average of 20 % of the ink in the "empty " cartridges, while in multi-colored compact cartridges, the proportion is much higher, since they must be changed as soon as only one of the colors contained "empty" is.