After using a third party prefilled cartridge vendor to acheive very good economy on my Canon printers, I am seriously considering buying the hobbicolor kits and trying refilling. In the process, I am reviewing various refill instructions available on line.
Common step one seems to be to create a fill hole above the ink reservoir---either by drilling out an existing cartridge and using a screw or rubber plug to later seal the hole. Or by using something like a hobbicolor blank that has a existing screw--one must have a refill hole and a good means of later sealing said hole.---and woe be to the refiller who has a ink injection hole seal that leaks air when the time comes to reseal the ink injection hole.
Then prior to refilling a cap or tape is used to seal the normal ink exit port on the bottom of the cartridge
There seem to be slight variances in the intructions in regard to the air vent above
the sponge-------all instructions state that new ink should be injected into the cartridge resevoir using the ink refill hole---usually around 8ml in a BCI-6---but some say inject that ink slowly and others don't address ink injection speed---some say tape over the air vent above the sponge before any ink is injected. Inject the initial 8 ml of ink---wait for the sponge to absorb ink--then top off the resevoir to 90%. And other say leave the air vent unsealed as the initial 8 ml of ink is injected---then wait for the sponge to absorb the ink----seal the air vent-----then add ink to a level of about 90% resevoir full level.
So I can get a mental handle on this, what happens if the air vent is never stopped up at any stage but ink is injected to the 90% full resevoir level?---because the cartridge when used will have the air vent unsealed else a vacume will develop.
But once the refiller gets to an end stage, the ink refill hole is sealed air tight and the cartridge is stored for later use. Some say put a piece of tape over the air vent and I also see the grand dad method of air tight food containers, rubbing achohol
on the bottom, and no need to seal the air vent.---------but of interest to any with rug rats or playful pets---what happens if the stored cartridges get accidently knocked upside down?
And three last questions----(a) does the low ink sensor in the non-chipped Canons continue to work with any transparent cartridge or does the third party cartridge needs some special prism at the botton of the ink resevoir that some third party cartridges may lack? (b) Is it much better to refill the cartridge before it gets to the low ink level or does it matter as long as the cartridge is promptly refilled? (3) Is it best to have a ready to go cartridge to replace the empty---or is it safe to wait the five minutes or so it takes to refill a cartridge leaving the printhead minus a cartridge meanwhile?
Sorry for the logish post but any help appreciated--tried refilling before on already empty HP cartridges with bad results.---really trying to get a mental handle on the variables involved.
Common step one seems to be to create a fill hole above the ink reservoir---either by drilling out an existing cartridge and using a screw or rubber plug to later seal the hole. Or by using something like a hobbicolor blank that has a existing screw--one must have a refill hole and a good means of later sealing said hole.---and woe be to the refiller who has a ink injection hole seal that leaks air when the time comes to reseal the ink injection hole.
Then prior to refilling a cap or tape is used to seal the normal ink exit port on the bottom of the cartridge
There seem to be slight variances in the intructions in regard to the air vent above
the sponge-------all instructions state that new ink should be injected into the cartridge resevoir using the ink refill hole---usually around 8ml in a BCI-6---but some say inject that ink slowly and others don't address ink injection speed---some say tape over the air vent above the sponge before any ink is injected. Inject the initial 8 ml of ink---wait for the sponge to absorb ink--then top off the resevoir to 90%. And other say leave the air vent unsealed as the initial 8 ml of ink is injected---then wait for the sponge to absorb the ink----seal the air vent-----then add ink to a level of about 90% resevoir full level.
So I can get a mental handle on this, what happens if the air vent is never stopped up at any stage but ink is injected to the 90% full resevoir level?---because the cartridge when used will have the air vent unsealed else a vacume will develop.
But once the refiller gets to an end stage, the ink refill hole is sealed air tight and the cartridge is stored for later use. Some say put a piece of tape over the air vent and I also see the grand dad method of air tight food containers, rubbing achohol
on the bottom, and no need to seal the air vent.---------but of interest to any with rug rats or playful pets---what happens if the stored cartridges get accidently knocked upside down?
And three last questions----(a) does the low ink sensor in the non-chipped Canons continue to work with any transparent cartridge or does the third party cartridge needs some special prism at the botton of the ink resevoir that some third party cartridges may lack? (b) Is it much better to refill the cartridge before it gets to the low ink level or does it matter as long as the cartridge is promptly refilled? (3) Is it best to have a ready to go cartridge to replace the empty---or is it safe to wait the five minutes or so it takes to refill a cartridge leaving the printhead minus a cartridge meanwhile?
Sorry for the logish post but any help appreciated--tried refilling before on already empty HP cartridges with bad results.---really trying to get a mental handle on the variables involved.
