250 ml refillable ink bottle, looking for a funnel cap to spill ink

[james3]

Hello everyone,
recently I bought from OCP in Germany the inks for my printer Epson Stylus Photo PX820FWD aka Artisan 835, 250ml each color (BK Y C M LC LM )
Those inks came each with a 250ml square bottle and with just a cap, I was trying to identify the cap standard and check if there some kind of funnel cap that I could use on it to semplificate the refilling procedure as in the attached image, I'm not interested to use some kind of syringe needle since I discovered that the holes in my refillable cartridges are exactly the same size of the tip of the attached funnel cap

Please see the attached images to better understand what I'm taking about

 

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That's a 24mm neck so it's likely I have a spout cap that would fit.

Just out interest, have you already asked me this question directly and I've missed answering or am I weirding out?

 

[james3]

Something similar, I was looking for cap similar to SquEazyfill but I discovered that the syringe tip fit perfectly in the refillable cartridge hole so I will go for these kind of cap that seems more easy to get thanks
Anyway this bottle is DIN 25 standard, I asked OCP, so it will be even more difficult to find something that will match!

 

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They may be the same as some of the litre bottles of OCP ink we have here. I'll take a look and see if the 24mm SquEasyFill caps will fit. We have a few here so we'll see.

 

[james3]

Thank you, the only thing I'm a bit concerned about the SquEasyFill system is the needle because I see some review on youtube that don't recommend to insert the needle into the cartridge because it could accidentally damage the thin plastic layer on the cartridges insides walls ,plus these caps fit flawlessly into the refillable cartridge holes, so once inserted you just need to squeeze (they are the same size of a syringe tip without the needle)

 

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Thank you, the only thing I'm a bit concerned about the SquEasyFill system is the needle because I see some review on youtube that don't recommend to insert the needle into the cartridge because it could accidentally damage the thin plastic layer on the cartridges insides walls ,plus these caps fit flawlessly into the refillable cartridge holes, so once inserted you just need to squeeze (they are the same size of a syringe tip without the needle)

Had to think about this for a second and then realised that they're referring to the plastic film that's used to seal the cartridge moulding on one side. You can avoid this issue by aiming the needle towards the plastic moulded side of the cartridge and away from the film side. It's pretty rare to puncture things without getting into rage mode though so it may be a slightly overcautious idea.

Anyway, if it helps we have PTFE and Polypropylene needles available as well (albeit not on the OctoInkjet site) so those might be an option, but not the cheapest.

That said... if you have an option that works like the one you mentioned, you don't throw it out just because...