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I do not force ink into the sponge, I just fill the ink chamber and let the sponge absorb as much ink as he likes. If it was really dry (something I try to avoid), half of the ink reserve chamber or more goes into the sponge. After the sponge is saturated, I fill the ink chamber again and remove...

afaik you can just lift the carts and check the ink levels. The printer won't do a head cleaning process unless you change an empty cart with a full cart, or a cart without ink level indicator with a new cart.

Today I bought 3/8" tube (9-10mm on the inside) and some other parts. I hope I won't need that for quite some time, but at least I've got the tools now. As you might know, I use a different refill technique, where the refill hole is in the front of the sponge chamber near the exit hole. Would...

I like the flushing techniques presented on this site! I'm wondering about this: Is it better to suck the water from the inside of the filter to the outside like you suggest here, which also represents the normal ink flow? Or is it better to press the water from the outside into the cart, like...

Interesting. Is that a blank cart? Where did you buy it? How difficult was it to guide the needle through the sponge? Are subsequent refills easier, because now their is a discernible "way" through the sponge? Do you think the sponge would be as resistant to a large number of piercings as the...

The parts of the nozzle check which are dark green now normally appear nearly black, because the colors cyan, magenta and yellow are printed on top of each other. If one of the colors is missing, you can only see the other two. Here: yellow+cyan=green. I doubt that the purge unit ist the problem...

Your photoblack seems to be fine (nearly), but your magenta has problems. Start a head cleaning, or check the air vent of the cart, or try another cart or check the purge unit. If this does not do the trick, a manual cleaning of the print head may be a good idea.

Ok, you got me wondering, so I tested it for myself. I pierced the yellow cart 300x by pushing the needle all the way into the ink reserve chamber and pulling it out again. This was no problem for the cart: There was not a single drop of ink coming out of the exit hole or the refill hole...

The sponge damage question was also discussed here before, and is brought up again occasionally by first-time refillers. The general opinion seems to be that it is more or less a theoretical consideration. In practice, there seems to be no noticable deterioration of the sponge. * Also bear in...

Well, on the german refill sites I know it becomes more and more the recommended method for refilling Canon carts. I also tried refilling with hot glue and a hole in the reserve tank, but I find this method faster and easier. I can't say much about the lifespan of the carts, because I refilled...

I examined the carts, and I would say: no, it doesn't. This is because the small sponge(filter) in the OEM carts sits only in the exit port, but does not enter the sponge chamber, like this one does: It's actually quite easy, because the path of the needle is near the bottom of the cart, so...

Today I refilled all my carts again and made a video showing the whole procedure. Nothing spectacular to see here :) I just refined my technique a little bit and got faster (7 minutes for all carts).

Yes, they do. The cleaning cycle is performed after you send a print job to the printer. I made a (very boring :P) video about this. Btw: the cleaning cycle on the vid was forced by doing this: a) remove the power plug of the printer so it is out of electricity, b) set the system clock of the...

No and no. :) Not one drop of ink left the carts unintentionally so far.

I refill as soon as there is still a little bit of ink at the bottom of the tank chamber, so the sponge won't dry out too much. When I refill, I do it like this: I fill the tank chamber, then turn the cart around and let the sponge absorb as much ink as he likes, but I do not force ink into the...

I'm not sure about that. I tested it right now with my iP5200: I made an EEPROM print and then lifted all my refilled carts to check the ink level. Then I put them back and looked inside the printer to see if there is a head cleaning. No, there wasn't any. Afterwards I printed a page normally...

Here you can get them in printer refill online shops like this or this for about 0,30 apiece. Pharmacys may have them, too, or specialised shops for medical stuff. I think they are normally used for extracting spinal fluid or something like that.

Btw: I've read here: So if you only print on PP, you basically have a 4-color-printer which text printing quality is not that good due to dye based ink, and which is slower at text printing than all-around printers like the iP4000 or iP4300. The photo ink just sits in the printer and is purged...

If you want to reset your waste ink counter, you can enter service mode as described above, and then do this: - 4x [resume], then [power]: resets waste ink counter But I would only do this if the printer says that the waste ink pads are 100% full and stops printing. When it says so, you can...

I don't know... I think the printer body will be ok for a while, if you did not have any problems yet. But some other things you might want to consider: - Check the waste ink counter. If it is nearly full, you will have to reset it soon and probably have to dismantle the printer and change the...