Get help, advice and information on all your Computers and Technology issues. http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/cartridge.htm Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:49:05 GMT en The LTO ( Linear Tape Open ) tapes came in two forms Accelis and Ultrium. The Accelis is 8 mm tape, dual reel cartridge. It was actually developed in 1997, and the purpose was the fast access to data, that loads at the midpoint of the tape to minimize access time. IBM were the pioneer in this tape format by introducing (short-lived) 3570 Magstar MP product. The real-world performance of Accelis does not exceed that of Ultrium tape format. Ultrium is 12" tape, single reel cartridge. In the mid 1980s, DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) and IBM (International Business Machines) converted this kind of tape into a single reel, enclosed cartridge. IBM named their cartridge 3480. LTO Ultrium was developed as a replacement for DLT(Digital Linear Tape). This development made possible for robotic tape library vendors to convert their DLT libraries into LTO. The Ultrium drive reads data from a cartridge in its own generation and at least the two prior generations, and writes data to a cartridge in its own genera tion and to a cartridge from the immediate prior generation in the prior generation format. LTO tape products and versions are: LTO 1, LTO 2, LTO 3, LTO 4, LTO Barcode Labels, LTO Cartridge Memory Reader, LTO Cleaning Cartridge and LTO Empty Cases. LTO 5 and LTO 6 under development and will be available in future. LTO-1 ( 100200 GB) Released in September 2000 LTO-1 was the developed by Seagate, HP and IBM as a contender for the market that was then dominated by DLT tapes (owned by Quantum). LTO-1 has 100 GB native capacity and compressed rate of 200 GB Has a transfer rate of up to 15 MBs. Uses RLL 1,7 (Run length limited) Tape thickness is 8.9 μm, and tape length is 609 m. LTO-1 has 384 tracks. Wraps per band are 12 and linear density (bitsmm) is 4880. Bit density is low, compared to second and third generations. LTO-1 tapes have a quick to market design and are made by easy techn http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/88628_The_Lto-1_Ultrium_Backup_Tape_Media_Cartridge.html Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:03:01 GMT Laminating with a Xyron cold process laminator is actually very easy. You simply insert the cartridge, put your document in the opening and crank the handle to pull the document through and laminate it. There really isnt that much to it. However, unless you have the right type of laminating cartridge you will not get the results that you need. This article is designed to help you choose the right cartridge for your needs. The first step in choosing the right cartridge for your laminator is to figure out what model of laminator that you have. Unfortunately, cartridges for different models of laminators are not interchangeable. This means that you will need to choose a laminating cartridge that is built for your particular laminator. Depending on the model of laminator that you have the options for laminating might be somewhat limited. However, here are some of the options that you may get to choose from. http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/74999_Choosing_The_Right_Cartridge_For_Your_Xyron_Laminator.html Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:28:50 GMT While cartridges differ depending on the manufacturer, technology, and so on, the ink cartridge refill instructions are fairly similar between all of them. Some brands will be easier or more difficult to refill, but they all can be refilled if you know what youre doing. Without further ado, below are the instructions for refilling your ink cartridge: 1. You will need an ink refill kit, which can be purchased from a variety of companies, both online and even in some office supply chains. One thing you need to make sure is that the refill kit is the right one for your specific cartridge, as the results are far from guaranteed if you get one designed for a different cartridge. The kits will cost less than new cartridges, but the price depends on which printer you use and which company you buy from. http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/74419_Instructions_On_How_To_Refill_An_Ink_Cartridge.html Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:11:57 GMT There are a number of different problems that might occur to a person when they are in the process of using their printer to print and the unfortunate truth of the matter is that a number of them are quire common. Regardless of what type of ink cartridges you are using, the printer cartridges that you currently have in your printer can experience a number of different problems. Now, different problems might cause the same symptom and one of the biggest symptoms of a problem when it comes right down to it in the printing world is the printer cartridge head being clogged. There are many things that might be able to cause it, but it is the clogging that you are eventually going to have to deal with if you want to print well again. Now, there are a few strategies that a person can use in order to clear the head and start printing again. The most common strategy for performing this kind of procedure involves putting the printer head in warm water to release some of the clogging and then cleaning it out partially through the use of a cotton swab and partially through the use of the cleaning utility software that comes with the printer. http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/61750_Priming_A_Printer_Cartridge.html Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:07:08 GMT Companies from Hewlett Packard (HP) to Epson to Canon and many others have all now come out with what is known as recycled cartridges. These recycled inkjet cartridges are essentially the types of cartridge that you can either refill yourself at home or alternatively cartridges that you can send in to companies like Hewlett-Packard for them to refill themselves. Hewlett-Packard inkjet cartridges nowadays for example are usually going to be refillable simply because the cost of HP inkjet cartridges has gone up so much that it really is not worth buying a new cartridge each time the printer inks run out. One of the problems that people sometimes run into when they have printer cartridges that are very old and have been refilled a number of times is a problem related to dried ink clogging the cartridge up. This has two negative effects on the print job as a whole. The first negative effect that it has is to obviously clog the cartridges up so that the ink that is coming out does not get distributed in an even fashion across the page and what eventually happens there is streaking and uneven sections of ink density on the printed page. The second negative effect is that if the dried ink is dried in clumps along the bottom of the cartridge head, then what you are going to see is that it might even cause small rips in the paper because of the friction caused by the contract between the ink and the page itself. http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/61739_Removing_Dried_Ink_From_Your_Cartridge_Head.html Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:08:58 GMT Perhaps one of the most important questions and one of the most frequent questions asked in the world today relates to ink cartridges and the capacity that they have. People want to know for reasons related to toner refill products and replacement cartridge purchases how many pages their ink cartridge will print. While this is certainly a question that is worth discussing, unfortunately there is no real answer when it comes to putting down an exact number on paper as to the capacity of a specific printer cartridge. Why is there no answer? Well, this is primarily because the different manufacturers have different ink levels in different cartridges. Taking an average value of pages that were printed by the different cartridges would be a useless average because it would be possible for there to be a huge deviation from the average value for a number of different cartridges. For example, if ten cartridges printed a thousand pages each and ten printed a hundred pages each, the average amount would be 550 pages per cartridge; a value that corresponds to none of the cartridges that were looked at. http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/61733_Ink_Cartridge_Capacity.html Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:10:59 GMT