INK REFILL TECH SUPPORT & TIPS
Follow the links below for
technical assistance.
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
For additional
information please feel free to contact us directly:
Tel. 1.604.439.9497
Email: Service@cartridge-depot.com
Refilling
Tips For Canon:
If you have any tricks
that worked for you, or any specific cartridges you need help with, email us
at Email: Service@Cartridge-Depot.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 Email: Service@cartridge-depot.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 Email: Service@cartridge-depot.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.
