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Product
Selector Guide |
Newly updated printer and cartridge cross
reference guide to our three product offerings: cartridges,
refill kits, and refill services.
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Trouble
Shooting Tips |
Tips to help with common questions and problems.
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Canon
• Epson
• Hewlett Packard
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For
additional information please feel free to contact us directly: |
Tel: 1.416.856.3898
Email: Service@reinkdepot.com
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Refilling
Tips For Canon: |
If you have any tricks that worked for you, or any specific
cartridges you need help with, email us at Service@reinkdepot.com
General refilling tips for Canon cartridges:
Several of the Canon cartridges have printheads attached to
the cartridge themselves. The majority of the problems that
refillers encounter has to do with the printhead being clogged
up with dried ink. There are several methods you can use to
avoid/correct this situation:
• Refill as soon as the cartridge goes empty, or if
you can tell that it's about to go dry.
• Never touch the printhead with your bare hands. They're
easily damaged.
• If the printhead is clogged, use a cleaning solution
(you can buy it from us). Put about one eighth of an inch
of this in an old cup or saucer. Set the cartridge's printhead
down in the liquid, and leave it there for as long as fifteen
minutes.
• Use a cotton swab or cotton-tipped applicator soaked
in rubbing alcohol to gently blot (not rub or scrub) the printhead.
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Refilling
Tips For Epson |
If you have any tricks that worked for you, or any specific
cartridges you need help with, email us at
Service@reinkdepot.com
Refilling tips for Epson cartridges:
Every Cartridge:
All Epson cartridges are basically the same: plastic shells
with foam inside, and a rubber seal (or nozzle) as the ink
exit port. Likewise, all Epson problems are basically the
same: imperfect printing or no printing. Epson cartridges
are notoriously bad for not "accepting" the ink
into the foam, and as a result the best thing you can do is
be patient. If at all possible, fill the cartridge, wait an
hour, and come back and make sure you can't get any more ink
into it. Let it sit over night if you can. After you have
let it set for long enough, the foam and ink "equalize"
the ink is properly absorbed, but it's not running out. Put
it in and run a few cleaning cycles.
The Epson ink jet cartridges are the most difficult to refill.
Epson did a good job in discouraging refillers. And, unlike
Canon, the user cannot replace the built-in printhead.
There are two issues involved:
• Air-Entrapment- especially when refilling the cartridges
• Nozzle Clogging- ink dries on the surface or debris
gets into the printhead and requires an expensive repair or
head replacement. (we can repair it!)
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Refilling
Tips for Hewlett-Packard: |
If you have any tricks that worked for you, or any specific
cartridges you need help with, email us at
Service@reinkdepot.com
Refilling tips for HP cartridges:
Every Cartridge:
All Hewlett-Packard cartridges (with the exception of the
HP2000c printer, released early June 1998) have printheads
attached to the cartridge themselves. The majority of the
problem that refillers encounter has to do with the printhead
being clogged up with dry ink. There are several methods you
can use to avoid/correct this situation:
• Refill as soon as the cartridge goes empty, or if
you can tell that it's about to go dry.
• Never touch the printhead with your bare hands. They're
easily damaged.
• If the printhead is clogged, use a cleaning solution
(you can buy it from us). Put about one-eighth of an inch
of this in an old cup or saucer. Set the cartridge's printhead
down in the liquid, and leave it there for as long as fifteen
minutes.
• Use a cotton swab of cotton-tipped applicator soaked
in rubbing alcohol to gently blot (not rub or scrub) the printhead
and also the copper flex circuit that runs up the side of
the printhead. |