Inkjet Printer Forum / Ink Jet Refill Forum

Tudor wrote:

hahaha, the same thing happened to me once. First I thought the clip didn't seal properly somehow... It was the germans!

..don't let's be beastly to the Hun!

rodbam wrote:

That's strange I can take the top fill plug off my CLI8 carts & no ink comes out of the German refill hole. I can also top fill these with no leakage from the German hole.

I think part of the problem was pressure used to plug the top-fill hole. I suspect that pushed a little ink out the German refill hole and started a little bridge that encouraged more to leak out.

Either way it was a salutary experience that didn't result in too much beyond 3 or 4ml of ink loss overall.

I got a small weep when I tried topfill on a German drilled cart.  To be on the safe side I fill hole with expoxy resin, hot glue gun did'nt stick but only have hobby grade sticks.  I also have had puddles big ones with top fill.  But no more with Octoinks excellent clips, leaks I now realise were caused by using one of my motley collection of clips with elastic bands.  If you do not have the original canon one a leak is possible.

Mind you I stilll cannot get a full cart with top fill about 3/4/7/8" before the inky bubbles start coming out.  Perhaps I should be satisfied with that The Hat always advocated not filling more than 3/4 and if anybody should know it is our Irish friend.

If you are going to convert a german drilled cart I would have thought it would be wise to fill the hole, wont it leave air leakage path?

websnail wrote:
Used a glue gun with my high grade adhesive and Top Hat's little trick of metal straight over the glue to flatten it down then remove cleanly..
it seems to have done the trick..

The trick of flattening the hot wax with the metal coin was joseph1949’s, I think and all credit to him for that one.

Now before anybody comments on me saying Hot Wax, I called it that
because unlike glue it can be made back into a liquid by simply heating it,
that’s my reasoning behind it, So Boo..

barfl2 wrote:  Mind you I stilll cannot get a full cart with top fill about 3/4/7/8" before the inky bubbles start coming out. 
Perhaps I should be satisfied with that The Hat always advocated not filling more than 3/4 and if anybody should know it is our Irish friend.

There is no need to over fill an OEM cartridge, i.e. filling it to the very top I mean, again my reasoning for that is.

If filled to ¾ full there is still 10% more ink in your cartridge than there is in a brand new OEM one,
and you also avoid the possibilities of getting ink into the air maze.

The myth of under filling is that the ink will run out before the chip/printer can register empty, not so.

So long as there is sufficient ink to cover the prism inside the reservoir and with the chip reset to full again,
the printer WILL still show firstly the low ink warning followed later by the out of ink notice. (No difference)

The only downside of putting a small amount of ink into the cartridge is the need to refill it again so quickly,
which doesn’t make sense to do in the first place, it’s over filling that can cause all of the troubles...