FLUSHING....WHY?

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I use both BCI-6 and CLI-8 carts and refill on the low ink warning every time and suffer very little problems if ever, they never get a chance to dry out, but I TOP fill mine ..:cool:
 

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If you’re refilling your cartridges you save nothing by waiting till the cartridge is declared empty or by over filling them, some say you have to refill less often using this method, but do you really ?
I must be the luckiest refilling SOB because I wait until one cartridge is declared empty before refilling all cartridges, except the Pigment Black cartridge which I typically wait until it is declared empty. I may or may not refill a cartridge depending on how much is left in the spongeless side. It is subjective.

Regardless, point is my single set of CLI-8 cartridges in an MP830 Canon printer have been used for several years now without flushing despite letting them run till declared empty. In my situation, if the Mikling Foam (MF) is occurring then it is not significant in my situation.

Maybe you bought the wrong printer. :p
 

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- if refilling "german": seal the air vent - to avoid sucking the ink too fast and too much into the upper sponge. (what might be the most important advice as I never heard of it before...)
Where did you get this from???
 

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It works for me. I just tested a few seconds ago.
 

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Wasn't working last night either. Switched to IE and downloading PDF like am using a 300 baud acoustic modem. (Yes, had one years ago and thought it was the bee's knees at the time)

OK, just finished the 1.69 MB PDF download -- took 5 minutes. Mikling instructs to tape over the Durchstich fill hole. Martin said to seal the air vent. These are two very different entities, not to mention that sealing the Durchstich refill hole is unnecessary.
 

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See step 1. Seal the air vent holes, and note the two photos at the upper right corner. The text at the right photo clearly says:"Place tape over grooves".

I guess the idea is to prevent the problem mentioned by martin0reg?
 

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See step 1. Seal the air vent holes, and note the two photos at the upper right corner. The text at the right photo clearly says:"Place tape over grooves".
Must have missed that on reading before. Can't get the PDF to download again on Firefox but is loading painfully slow with IE.

When you inject ink it displaces air and must exit the cartridge somewhere. This leaves the ink exit port and the Durchstich refill hole as points of egress for air if the vent is taped off.

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Crikey! I scooted past Step 1 and went directly to Step 2. I wonder if that was subliminal because I do not do tape of the vent. :idunno
 
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