Page 1 of How to fill up your injet for a couple of quid!

I kid you not, A few years ago I use to read a Atari magazine and in it was an article about a guy that owned a Canon printer, the trouble was he could not afford to run it, is solution was to use FOOD COLOURING.

I bought a inkjet printer a couple of years ago ( £56.00} and when the ink
ran out I got a syringe kit ( Maplins for a couple of quid) and food colouring, and I have got photos of my children on hanging on my wall and people dont believe that they are from food colouring.

You put the blue and yellow in straight and mix a bit of red and blue for the red and mix them all toghether for a s***y black or use black ink .

I got rid of my printer when the inbuilt print head gave up after three years,

If you have got a Lexmark with a print head built in the cartridge then try it you aint go nothing to lose.
If your printer as got a inbuilt printhead then you might not want to risk it.

I only have put this up because people are throwing away the printers because it cheaper to get a new printer with cartridges then buy the cartridges on there own, so nothing to lose realy.

Also I filled up my printer a least a couple of dozen times if not more.

The article recomended that use the food colouring from Tesco. about 40p a bottle.

Try this at your own risk. ..

PS The printer that featured in the article cost over £200.00 same quality now for £29.00 to £40.00.

This item was edited on Monday, 20th January 2003, 11:42

Tried printing onto rice paper for edible images yet!?!?

No! The money I save on ink I can afford beef!

Tasty Tip !

Hmmm, and even if the pictures look c**p, you can always eat them afterwards !

Apparently bananas are in danger of becoming extinct, so I suggest a trip into Tesco with the Digital cam, take a few snaps, then print a pic of said bananas using banana flavoured food dye, eat and enjoy (Cue Homer Simpson impression - "Hmmmm banana flavoured pictures") Doh!!