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Warning: Heat + Ink Cartridges = A Mess
Posted in: blog, inkjet by CW on 19 July 2010
Better late than never; Summer has finally come to our fair city.
With the arrival of higher temperatures comes a potential issue for those who buy ink cartridges and leave them in their cars while they continue shopping or stop for a bite to eat on the way home.
On a day when the temperature outside is 86 degrees, the temperature inside a car can quickly reach 135 or even 150 degrees! When ink is heated it expands. If you let an ink cartridge heat up to the point the ink expands you’ll get home to find that you have a sealed plastic bag full of loose ink with a cartridge floating around in it.
To prevent this, after purchase keep the cartridge in as cool and shady place as possible. The best possible situation would be to wait until you’re all done with your other stops and buy the cartridge when you’re ready to head home. That minimizes the amount of time the cartridge is subjected to the heat.
So remember, a hot car is no place for a pet, a child or a freshly filled ink cartridge.
(Heat does not affect laser cartridges the same way. Toner is a powder and not subject to expansion from heat. We still advise, though, that all cartridges be kept in the dark and as cool as possible until you’re ready to install them in your printer.)
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