Ketil Wright
Getting Fingers Dirty
- Joined
- Oct 11, 2015
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- Canon Pro 1000
I just refilled 5 of 10 empty PGI-72 cartridges for a Canon Pixma Pro-10 with Precision colors ink, using the "dribble method". I only stopped due to running out of time for the day.
I referred to a video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGBzHSQx5bU (which discusses this with the similar pgi9 cartridges), as well as instructions from PC. The youtube video suggests that it ought to take approximately 3 minutes per cart.
However, the process of filling just 5 of my 10 carts took me 4h 30 minutes. To be fair, the carts weren't completely empty (based on their weight), so I did take some time to flush them with a couple of milliliters of PC ink (and drain it back out with a syringe), but that was a small percentage of the time spent.
Some observations I had:
I referred to a video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGBzHSQx5bU (which discusses this with the similar pgi9 cartridges), as well as instructions from PC. The youtube video suggests that it ought to take approximately 3 minutes per cart.
However, the process of filling just 5 of my 10 carts took me 4h 30 minutes. To be fair, the carts weren't completely empty (based on their weight), so I did take some time to flush them with a couple of milliliters of PC ink (and drain it back out with a syringe), but that was a small percentage of the time spent.
Some observations I had:
- A couple of the carts filled quite quickly ( Photo Cyan and Photo Magenta). Red went a bit slower. Yellow and PhotoBlack both took a very long time, over an hour each.
- Both of the slower fills exhibited a lot of "bubbling" at the ink port, and much of the time I spent was waiting for those to subside. Even when I tuned my technique to avoid the bubbles, the PBK and Y carts absorbed much slower than the others.
- I bought these carts "as is" online. I have no idea how long they sat empty, or how they were stored. They did arrive in an airtight bag.
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