refillable inks

[John G]

Good points - one thing I forgot to mention, you can leave a laser printer untouched, not even switched on, for a week, month or even a year and the 1st print will be the same as the last - perfect. Try that with an inkjet and you would have clogged nozzles and be head cleaning for a month to get it printing again.

[JSR]

Good points - one thing I forgot to mention, you can leave a laser printer untouched, not even switched on, for a week, month or even a year and the 1st print will be the same as the last - perfect. Try that with an inkjet and you would have clogged nozzles and be head cleaning for a month to get it printing again.

That's a good point. Although I've rarely experience severe clogged nozzle issues, you do away with it entirely with laser printers.

[flatcap]

hi Laura thanks for the link unfortunately it did not help me but thank you so much for helping.
and thanks you guys for the posts about laser printers, the problem is i have just brought the s21 because it takes refillable cartridges and i have paid for the cartridges and bottles of ink already.
So i need to work out how they fill and whether the pinkish fluid needs to be removed
I've been trying utube for videos on refilling but no luck nor for search on google for instructions

[bms]

From my experience a refillable cartridge, when new, is completely empty. They're called virgin empty cartridges and should never have had any ink or liquid in them. You definately need the rubber bung that you are missing and ideally a large syringe with a sharp needle.

I don't know what type of cartridge you have and can't really help with the filling/ refilling process of these, but when we fill from new and empty we create a vacuum inside the cartridge by sucking out the air (sharp needle through one of the rubber bungs) and pull back in the syringe chamber. Remove the syringe and needle completely, load with ink and re-insert the needle through the rubber bung. The cartridge will fill automatically by sucking the ink to fill the vacuum and this avoids any air locks inside the cartridge.

[flatcap]

hi martin,
i've been looking at videos of all the epson refillables and they are many and varied and i found a vid that's not to clear but i can see they have removed the colour bung to fill so i know know that hole is where the ink goes, and not the one in front of each colour bung. each bung has a pin hole on the top of the bung but the hole does not go all the way through which i think from what you say is how you do it
would be to force the syringe through and fill
i've just dismantled the office and found some spare bungs and a set of syringes looks like i'm ready to go now that you cleared up my problem about the layer of liquid in the cartridges
thank you so much

[flatcap]

hi all anyone know how to get dye based ink of of hands i'm covered in all 4 colours forgot to put on gloves
but managed to get the cartridges to fill though
thx for all your help

[purpledragon]

heat press them

[Paul]

I wonder what color they turn ??

[mrs maggot]

try cutting a potato in half and rubbing on failing that a good old mixture of granulated sugar and washing up liquid should get it off

[flatcap]

I wonder what color they turn ??

purply violet my hands looked like paul with a hint of summer yellow
tad extreme dragon but at least the pain would make me forget my discoloured hands
Laura you are a genius sugar and fairy liquid done the job couldn't try the potato it's sunday roast day and i want to eat them
thanks guys