Is it true that you could hack your printer to give you and unlimited supply of ink?

I think he means a continuous ink supply system where you usually have to 'hack' a lump out of the printer to fit it. The ink continually flows via the system, which is tubes that run into the ink cartridges, so you no longer need to even change the actual cartridges. As long as the external ink bottles are full the printer never runs out of ink.

Such systems are for ink jet printers. So he may actually be right dependant of what the full conversation was but there is no actuall ink in a printer only in the cartridges. Once the ink is used in the catridge there is no more ink untill a new full cartidge is put in.

These are what they are and he might have meant.

https://www.continuousink.com/home.html

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/3276782766/ref=...

You can't hack a printer to make it give you unlimited ink. Your friend has no idea what he's talking about. Ink is a physical liquid contained in the cartridge that will eventually run out and need to be refilled.

It's ludicrous to say you can just hack a laser printer to give it an unlimited supply. It's kind of like your friend saying he can hack his water bottle so he'll never run out of water because it'll just keep refilling itself.

yeah, that's not how a laser printer works.

the only thing the laser does is activate the ink. the ink is transferred onto a drum, which the laser then sweeps across. then, when the drum rolls over the paper, the parts of the ink that the laser activated is transferred to the paper, while the rest of it remains on the drum.

i'm not exactly sure the science or chemistry from it, but yeah.

yeah no. You buy the ink cartridges so the printer can take the ink out of those and put it on the page. That is why it empties.

Yeah... I've been trying to hack bottles of liquids... just hasn't been working too well. They always seem to run out.

Here's the thing, tell him to buy you an ink cartridge and empty out the ink. Plug it in. there you go. problem solved.

When the ink is gone it's gone and all the hacking in the world will not change that...

Ma man I've neva heard of a bigger nonsense...

Thanx for da laugh I've just had....

H

Yes, you can. It requires 4 goat hearts and a jar of gypsie tears.

Thats crazy! not really true

No it is not possible.