08 Sep 2003, 10:48, JIM HOLSONBACK (1:123/140), wrote to EVERETT HERTENSTEIN:

Hi JIM.

 EH>> I have not done this, but if you're desperate, sometime try 
 EH>> distilled water with just a _little_ household ammonia.

 EH>> An alkaline solution (with the ammonia) is a great solvent for 
 EH>> dried India ink.
 EH>>  It just might work here, too, even though the printer ink is
 EH>> definitely not India ink.  In desperation, it wouldn't hurt to 
 EH>> try. :-)
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 JH> If I fail with the distilled/isopropyl, I'll surely give ammonia 
 JH> a try. Not for too long, though, as I'd worry that the NH3 or the OH 
 JH> might end up corrosive to the contacts on the ink cartridge.  rummage,
 JH> rummage - Looking at an old HP cartridge,  I'd use the ammonia in a 
 JH> shallow pool, so as to contact only the inkjets on the bottom,  not 
 JH> the contacts which run up the back side of the cartridge.

I think Everett's suggestion of a _little_ ammonia should not be taken
lightly.  Pure Ammonia is very corrosive on copper, and causes a black
'coating' on gold, but the stuff you can buy is 99% water to begin with. 
Still, there are some pretty fine wires in those cartridges...


     Good luck...  M.

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