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Ink Refill Tech Tips
 
Product Selector Guide

Newly updated printer and cartridge cross reference guide to our three product offerings: cartridges, refill kits, and refill services.

 

Trouble Shooting Tips

Tips to help with common questions and problems.
Canon
Epson
Hewlett Packard

 

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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.

 

 

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!)

 

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.