My MAXIFY 5350 is on refill ink

[stratman]

This lower ink outlet has to be sealed anyway, if not you have a big splash of ink when inserting a refilled cart.

Good to know!

I've just started using the MB5120 and am pleasantly impressed with the speed and quality of the output so far. The images are better than I feared, given the cautions on quality others have advised, and the text does not streak with highlighting.

I am re-reading this thread for valuable tips on refilling. Thank you.

 

[palombian]

Good to know!

I've just started using the MB5120 and am pleasantly impressed with the speed and quality of the output so far. The images are better than I feared, given the cautions on quality others have advised, and the text does not streak with highlighting.

I am re-reading this thread for valuable tips on refilling. Thank you.

I am shure you will add a lot more tips.

Enjoy !

 

[stratman]

@palombian and @The Hat

At the moment, I am undecided about buying a set of OEM XL cartridges and using ARC chips as palombian does, or, buying a set of empty aftermarket cartridge with chip already on them as The Hat does.

Since both of your methods appear to work, what are the positives and negatives of your version of Maxify cartridge refilling???

 

[palombian]

@palombian and @The Hat

At the moment, I am undecided about buying a set of OEM XL cartridges and using ARC chips as palombian does, or, buying a set of empty aftermarket cartridge with chip already on them as The Hat does.

Since both of your methods appear to work, what are the positives and negatives of your version of Maxify cartridge refilling???

@stratman, the setup carts (you are printing with now I suppose) can contain the same volume of ink as the OEM 1500XL cartridges.
About 35ml BK and 12ml CMY (versus 70ml and 19ml for the 2500XL)
It are (most probably) physically the same cartridges, only marked SETUP and partially filled bags.
Your only additional costs are 4 ARC chips (about €/$ 10 in total at Aliexpress).

I experience much less leaking/cross contamination with refilled OEM's (in casu SETUP's).
Once loaded they print until empty.
OTH you need to fabricate (or buy) a tool to insert in the ink outlet to refill (by alternated pumping and aspiring as explained in the video's).
And you have to seal the outlet afterwards with aluminum tape.
No idea how many times they can be refilled.

The aftermarked refillables are easier to refill via separate sealable holes, they are transparent and the outlet has a valve so they do not leak out of the printer.

Correction: @stratman uses the large PGI-2200 carts (-2500 in Europe), not the smaller PGI-1200 (-1500).

 

[stratman]

as explained in the video's

What videos?

The refill kit from Precision Colors has a priming adapter tool that attaches to the end of a syringe for first time refill of his aftermarket cartridges. Instructions here.

I wonder if @mikling's Precision Colors cartridges are the first or second generation cartridges @The Hat has used? The first generation were a failure but his second generation cartridges work a treat.

Waiting to hear from The Hat about his pluses and minuses...

 

[The Hat]

I have never used OEM carts in the Maxify, so I don’t know how they compare to 3rd party ones, nor do I know if my set are setup carts or not, maybe someone using the OEM carts would know, my colour carts are 64 gm and the black is 103 gm. in weight.

I first used Octopus carts starting out and they leaked occasionally, but since switching to the AliExpress ones, leaks are a thing of the past, I also bought a set of ARC chips from Octopus for €30, before I purchased the new set of carts from AliExpress for €14.16.

The AliExpress set has a little circular gadget clearly visible inside them and the Octopus don’t and yet the Octopus set were 3 times the price without ARC chips, and I’ve been perfectly happy with AliExpress ones, well the printer seems to like them..

 

[Artur5]

Welcome to Maxifyland @stratman. ( One after the other all the regulars in this forum are being converted to the new religion. )

After two and a half months of use my MB5150 is now over 2750 pages.
Believe it or not, CMY chanels are still using OEM ink from he setup carts that contain much less ink than regular units. You can see that I print very little in color with the Maxify.
Black has been refilled twice after OEM ink was exhausted.

No problems to speak of since I refill with Inktec black ink, and yet something nags me a bit. While nozzle checks are perfect and black text in standard mode is flawless, there’s noticeable ink starvation printing on standard mode if the page contains huge expanses of solid black. That doesn’t happens with the other colors ( still OEM ink ).
If I print on high quality, no starvation at all because printing speed being much lower inkflow can cope with the demand, so to speak.
Honestly, I don’t recall if there was any kind of ink starvation with OEM black. I print mostly text so pictures with large areas of black aren’t usual in my workflow.

See the attached picture, That revolver should be pitch black and so it is when printed in high quality mode but look at those black to gray gradients at left.

 

[palombian]

Welcome to Maxifyland @stratman. ( One after the other all the regulars in this forum are being converted to the new religion. )

After two and a half months of use my MB5150 is now over 2750 pages.
Believe it or not, CMY chanels are still using OEM ink from he setup carts that contain much less ink than regular units. You can see that I print very little in color with the Maxify.
Black has been refilled twice after OEM ink was exhausted.

No problems to speak of since I refill with Inktec black ink, and yet something nags me a bit. While nozzle checks are perfect and black text in standard mode is flawless, there’s noticeable ink starvation printing on standard mode if the page contains huge expanses of solid black. That doesn’t happens with the other colors ( still OEM ink ).
If I print on high quality, no starvation at all because printing speed being much lower inkflow can cope with the demand, so to speak.
Honestly, I don’t recall if there was any kind of ink starvation with OEM black. I print mostly text so pictures with large areas of black aren’t usual in my workflow.

See the attached picture, That revolver should be pitch black and so it is when printed in high quality mode but look at those black to gray gradients at left.

I observe exactly the same behaviour with solid black prints and can't compare with the OEM either.
Although it is slower, for final drafts to customers I print in high quality.
Since the Maxify has no draft setting, we can't expect everything from normal, it is the lowest quality.

 

[Artur5]

Thanks for the feedback. I was afraid it could be a problem of the ink or my method of refilling.

 

[stratman]

noticeable ink starvation printing on standard mode if the page contains huge expanses of solid black.

noticeable ink starvation printing on standard mode if the page contains huge expanses of solid black.

Are both of you using a refilled OEM cartridge?

I've had beautiful solid Blacks in images such as X-Rays with the new OEM cartridge supplied with the printer. No issues whatsoever.

@The Hat has not said anything about ink starvation of any color. He uses the Alibaba cartridges.

Maybe @mikling can chime in about his aftermarket cartridges?