FLUSHING....WHY?

[CakeHole]

I personally just use the kitchen paper/paper towel method to dry carts i flush...
http://www.printerknowledge.com/threads/draining-a-canon-cartridge.4760/

Never had any issues apart from a very minor one with a PGI cart when the carts have been left to completely dry out. I followed the thread above and left one of my sets of carts well over a week to dry completely. Did not need any "conditioning" solution, just flushed with water and let dry.

 

[mikem65d]

After reading this entire thread i still have a question regarding the flushing and storing time for CLI-8 cartridges.
I chose this cartridge as Hat's advice made sense in that it will work on all 3 of my machines (chip switch for the Pro-100 understood).
mikling's videos on how to flush, refill and the understanding of Canon carts intrigued me to give it a try.
So far i have done a set CLI-8's to use in the i900d i have and things could not have gone any better.........this of course was made easy by all the Topic posts here in regards to "how to" and of course pharmacist's solution and ghwellsjr and Hat's drying method.

I recently acquired some 60 carts that are all used up (and then some).............It makes sense to me that these should be flushed and dried now, but is storing these carts in the dry state for an extended period of time pointless? By extended i mean for up to 1 year.
I have flushed a couple from this batch and they came out snowy white as expected.

 

[Grandad35]

I bought 500 used BCI-6 carts a few years ago and purged/dried the salvageable units. I have experienced zero problems when using a purged/dried cart stored in a plastic bag even after several years of storage.

 

[mikem65d]

thx Grandad

 

[CakeHole]

@mikem65d I do not think you will have any issues storing flushed and dried out carts, my small scale compared to some here few sets of carts which ive flushed and left to dry have had no real issue.

The only problem (i actually think it is better) i had was with a PGI-5 Black pigment cart whose sponge was completely dry, it just meant the pigment black ink took a little longer to saturate the sponge, i filled the ink chamber, made a cup of coffee came back and the sponge had took the ink and then i topped the ink chamber off.

Other than that the set of carts which i had left out not even in an air tight bag for a few months (just chucked them in a small cardboard box with the orange clip on the bottom) have had no problems at all.

 

[mikem65d]

@mikem65d I do not think you will have any issues storing flushed and dried out carts, my small scale compared to some here few sets of carts which ive flushed and left to dry have had no real issue.

The only problem (i actually think it is better) i had was with a PGI-5 Black pigment cart whose sponge was completely dry, it just meant the pigment black ink took a little longer to saturate the sponge, i filled the ink chamber, made a cup of coffee came back and the sponge had took the ink and then i topped the ink chamber off.

Other than that the set of carts which i had left out not even in an air tight bag for a few months (just chucked them in a small cardboard box with the orange clip on the bottom) have had no problems at all.

I ran into this same thing when filling my first set of carts that i flushed from a used printer i got a couple weeks ago. All but the black wicked up as expected, but the black (dye ink) just stared at me on the reservoir side (top filling) as if to say "now what?"...so a few taps on the case and it started to do it's thing. Of course reading this thread this morning taught me that i wasn't the first to run into this and the suck on the vent thing which was my next thought had it come to that.
I appreciate your reply.

-mike

 

[CakeHole]

Once the sponge part starts to absorb ink, which is normally and most of the time pretty much straight away even with a dried sponge in my experience you are pretty much good to go