\centerline{\bf Recharging Toner Cartridges}
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\noindent
It is possible to have your old laser printer
toner cartridges refilled. PPI will recharge
a carrtridge for the Canon LBP-CX engine for
\quid45.00. This is substantially cheaper than
buying a new one. And they put more toner
in than you had the first time. It appears that
cartridges can be refilled many times, but of course
they insist that the cartridge must be in good
condition. If you want to be more colourful, that
costs more --- they charge \quid55.00 for a colour
refill (you can put a colour refill in a cartridge
which had black toner). They will refill single
cartridges, and also offer
discounts for bulk, offereing a discount of 20\%
on quantities of 50.
The Canon engine is the heart of many
a laser printer, including the HP LaserJet,
the LaserWriter, QMS800 and Imagen, to
name but a few. For further information:
{\obeylines\parindent2em
PPI
228 Anerley Road
London SE20 8JT
Tel: 01 676 0055
}
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\centerline{\bf Bulletin Board}
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Personal \TeX, suppliers of pc\TeX\ and an
increasing number of other quality \TeX\ add-ons
have a bulletin board for their users. Its contents
read a bit like \hax, but there is quite clearly
a fair amount of self-help going on. There are
a number of files available for downloading,
including some utilities. Among the files
are the sources of the Boston Computer Society
\TeX\ benchmarks.

I have had a look through some synopses which
\DW\ provided, and include a  taste of
the material present. 

There was an account
of the meeting of German \TeX\ users in Heidelberg
in October 1986. Norbert Schwarz has developed another set
of German hyphenation patterns which are said
to be better (linguistically), and to take up
less room than those of Bernd Schulze.
The Schulze hyphenation patterns are available
through Personal \TeX. Personal \TeX\ will
also be releasing Michael Ferguson's multi-lingual
\TeX, which allows simultaneous multi-lingual
hyphenation. They give June\slash July 1987 as a release date,
but I don't believe them.

Those who read TUG will also know of the Portugese
hyphenation patterns from Pedro de Rezende, which
may by now be part of some \TeX\ distribution
tapes.

This is quite a lively bulletin board, and it seems
to go some way to providing an alternative to
\hax\ for those without academic networks to back
them up. The only real problem I see is
the expense of transatlantic telephone calls.
If this sort of service is a feature of Personal \TeX s
commitment to \TeX, then it bodes well for them and us.

\rightline{\sl Malcolm Clark}