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I hadn't considered refilling the OEM cartridges. I watched one of the videos but it used a plug for the air hole during filling and had some ink squirt out at the end despite having put some vacuum on the syringe before removing it. I'm not sure if the person said how much ink to put into a...

Is anybody using the Maxify Compatible PGI-1200 Cartridges from Precision Colors? Are you satisfied? Are there other good choices/suppliers for PGI-1200 refillable cartridges and inks in N. America? I see Inkproducts.com has some good videos on refilling these cartridges, but he's got a...

The most recent one was a TS9020 which lasted about a year and a half. The one before that was an MG5420 which lasted about 3.5 years but it was fussy for awhile before I replaced it. I hate to give up the CD printing because they look professional when I print directly, but the Maxify series...

I've been refilling Canon printers since the days of black only cartridges. The Canons had been reliable but the last three I've had (bought because they print directly to CD/DVD) have each clogged fatally about a year after switching to refill ink. The most recent two were using Precision...

Inkstained, thanks for your reply. I will explore the printer models you suggested. Do you or anyone else have experience with both Canon and Epson printers to know if Epson printers clog less often than Canons using refill ink. I've gotten my ink from Precision Colors, recommended here on the...

I actually have multiple questions. The first is refillability - note - this would be a US based purchase. I see that someone else had a US purchased Epson that took 410 cartridges and aftermarket refillables were not compatible with his printer - his was an XP-630 and the thread is here...

One of the requirements is direct printing to CD's. I don't believe anything in the Maxify line will do that.

CLI 270/271 refillables from Precision Colors and less than a year old. The printer is a TS9020. The problems started a few months ago with the Magenta cartridge not being recognized after refilling. Despite getting an error message when inserting the Magenta cartridge I could turn the printer...

I was only on my 2nd refilling of your cartridges and was experiencing red ink starvation. I thought I had refilled it incorrectly and was going to have to go through the purge procedure. I used the paperclip trick and the cartridge is printing fine again.

@mikling has a good video explaining why it's important to refill the cartridge when it's low (when the ink reservoir is first emptied) and not to let the cartridge go to the point that the computer says it's empty. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0hsiUlgoKY In theory, if you refill as soon as...

At least for the Precision Colors refill cartridges, that may have changed. Here's a quote from @mikling earlier in this thread: A hole just big enough to admit the refill needle would be more convenient. It takes some finesse to fill the large ball hole. Since I have some new ARC...

What you describe is the way my old 250/251 ARC cartridges worked. You had to wait until the empty sign came from the printer. The reset chips have been updated per @mikling. At least with the ones he sells you no longer have to wait until they're completely empty. When the printer indicates...

In a post here: https://www.printerknowledge.com/threads/first-experience-refilling-and-resetting-cli-271-pgi-270.12714/page-2 @mikling from Precision colors gave this information about his autoreset cartridges: Since the new cartridges from PC reset earlier now, I assume that best...

I was careful when I made the glue plug not to have it heaped up too high. If dripped in just right, it sags into the ball hole and is slightly concave. When it's heaped up, I have a metal spatula that I used to squish it down. You can see the clearance inside my printer in the photo below...

I got it at Refill Bay https://refillbay.com/product/canon-cli-271-pgi-270-chip-resetter.php

Oh, and I built a hot glue wall in the offending 271 cyan cartridge to fill the hole I drilled and used the ball hole for a refilling area. After putting this cartridge back in the printer, the nozzle check results look as I expect them. No excess of cyan bleeding into the magenta. Whether...

Here are my photos of using hot glue in the ball hole. The glue from my glue gun was not hot enough to melt the plastic of the cartridge, something of concern to me. I confirmed that rubbing alcohol (isopropyl alcohol ~90%) acts as a release agent for hot glue. Here's what an old 251 cartridge...

OK Mike. You convinced me. I just ordered a set of your ARC cartridges because you can refill them when they hit Low which hopefully will alleviate sponge drying and potential print head problems. You'll have to educate me/us about the topping off. I know what you mean by topping off, but...

It did indeed enter the sponge chamber. It seemed to straddle the divider between the two chambers with the hole in that location. It's pretty clear now that the plugs and instructions that came with the refilling kit were the wrong ones. With the smaller 1/8" low clearance plugs, you could...

We all know that it's a bad idea to let the ink completely run out before refilling, but at least in the set of ARC 250/251 cartridges I had, you had to let the printer tell you the cartridge was empty before they would reset. I didn't like them for this reason. My impression is that as a...