Refilling Your Own Cartridges
Although in this day and age, many activities can be performed online, it is often desirable to be able to print a hard copy of some information as well. If you love to print out your own photos, you know how much ink you can go through producing a top-notch quality picture.
Purchasing a printer to hook up to your computer isn’t very difficult and not that expensive any more. The ink, however, can be a different story. You will save money by refilling your own ink cartridge? How can you refill an ink cartridge? A brief tutorial on that subject is next.
1. If you want to refill ink cartridges, first purchase an ink refill kit. You can find them in a number of different stores or online.
2. Gather needed supplies. You will need some paper towels, scotch tape, disposable gloves, and a sharp pencil. This isn’t surgery but it is close to it. You need to be prepared.
3. Take your ink refill kit and your supplies to a large, flat working surface.
4. Remove the empty ink cartridges from your printer.
5. Now is the time to enlist the aid of your disposable plastic gloves. Put the empty ink cartridge on a paper towel. Fold or use multiple paper towels to keep from making a mess.
6. Read the instruction manual for the refill kit. Specific ink cartridges might have different requirements for refilling ink.
7. To find where the refill holes are, run your fingers on the top of the ink cartridge. Reading the instruction manual will help you locate where the holds are exactly.
8. Take your pencil and poke through the refill holes on the top of the ink cartridge.
9. Make sure you refill the correct ink color into the corresponding holes (magenta, cyan and yellow). It would be best if you follow the example in the instruction manual to ensure the proper color is placed in the correct hole.
10. Insert the long needle from the kit into the hole of the correct ink color and slowly add the new ink.
11. Carefully watch the hole as you approach maximum capacity. If you see any ink oozing from the hold, stop, but keep hold of the bottle. Allow for the excess air in the needle to be released, and be mindful not to spill ink. Remove the needle slowly.
12. Dab the top of the cartridge with a paper towel until you get all of the ink around the hole wiped off. Next, use scotch tape to cover the hole. There should be “seal dots” included with your ink refill kit to utilize for this same purpose, but some people have found scotch tape works better as a sealant.
This same process should be repeated for each color. The ink cartridge should not have any leaks before you put it into the printer. The last thing you want is to leak ink all over the internal components of your printer. Print a test page to ensure that you’ve refilled the ink cartridge correctly!
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