they fully agree with you.Trigger 37 said:So my answer is,...I'm going to continue to fill the same way I have always done, and seal the fill hole, and therefore restore the ink cart to the original conditions for ink flow, and airflow. This also allows be to continue to do a full purge cleaning of any ink cart without changing anything that I know works.
Trigger,Trigger 37 said:To flush my Canon ink carts, since I have always removed the plastic filler ball and used that hole to refill, and re-sealed the ink cart with plugs, screws, and sometimes just good masking tape, this fill hole has become an important part of my cleaning process. Grandad has gone to the trouble of getting special adapters to fit onto his sink and the bottom of his ink carts and flush them out that way. He has had great success with his method. He has however pointed out some problems of shifting the sponge position and possible ablatement of the exit pad. Since I needed to get the job done one day, and I didn't have his tools, I just did it a different way. I removed the screw from the filler hole and sat the ink cart in my laundry room sink and let a medium stream of water hit directly on the filler hole. It is not as fast as Grandad's process, but it has the same result. The water immediatley forces the old contaminated, dry, ink out of both the bottom exit hole and at the same time it forces it out of the air intake hole. Because it is not very high pressure it never has any change of damaging anything. To move things along I also turn the ink cart over and direct the water to the exit port and this moves the last bit of colored ink out of the air intake hole. Within a resonable amount of time the ink cart is devoid of any color of ink, but is full of water. I take it to my garage and use my air compressor to blow air into only the fill hole and the air intake hole. This very rapidly removes all water from the cart. I then have tried letting it dry for a day and sometime I have gone right ahead and refilled the ink cart with good ink. It will absorb the new ink into the sponge so fast it take virtually no time to refill. My tests afterwards have proven to me that it's as good as a NEW ink cart. Again, I do it this way because it is simple, I have the necessary tools, and it works.
I covered up the hole with that adhesive putty that kids use to stick papers to the wall.avolanche said:(3) I cover the small fill hole used in the German method with a small piece of tape(friction tape or the Aluminum duct tape used on HVAC systems).
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