Cleaned CLI-42 Yellow Cart...You be the judge

Hello everyone. I just received my flush kit and went to work on the Canon yellow cartridge. I flushed the cart as follows:

1. Filled syringe with warm tap water and pushed/flushed water through sponge and out the fill hole to get rid of as much of the yellow ink and the junk that had built up with plain water as possible. Did this until I saw no yellow ink.
2. Filled syringe with windex and pushed/flushed the windex through sponge and out filled hole. I did this 2 times.
3. Filled syringe with water and flushed the windex out of cartridge to get rid of any remaining ink/contaminates. I did this to remove as much contaminates as possible before proceeding to step 4.
4. Filled syringe with windex and pushed it through the sponge until it was saturate and the cart was filled with windex. Let this sit overnight (just over 12 hrs.)
5. Filled syringe with air and flushed the windex out the fill hole (could've used water also at this point).
6. Filled syringe with water and flushed the cart - did this 3 times (note: I did not have any distilled water, but will flush with it today when I get some).
7. Use the syringe to pulled out as much water as possible.

Note 1: All the steps were done with my finger covering the vent hole to force the liquid through the fill hole. Also, after step 3, the cart was white (i.e. cleaned) but I erred on the safe side and did step 4 to be sure. I did see just a hint of yellow being pushed by the windex, but wasn't sure if could've been the yellow label showing through.

Note 2: The yellow cart was only topped off once, so it's basically a new cart, which may be the difference in getting it fully cleaned or not. I'll let you be the judge as to if it's sufficiently cleaned or not.

Below are images showing the before, after and comparison to the refurbished cleaned CLI-8 cartridge.

Images 1-2: Shows yellow with the junk in it
Image 3: Reference to show both Canon CLI-8 refurb cart and CLI-42 Canon cart
Image 4-5: Shows the cleaned CLI-42 yellow Canon cart
Image 6: compares the refurbished CLI-8 cart (black dot on base) to my cleaned yellow cart

Again, you be the judge. Let me know

Thanks for looking...Al

I would be very confident and happy to use either of those cartridges, great job Al…

I don't know which cartridge is which, but in the last picture the cartridge at the right looks most clean and white to me.

I have cleaned one OEM yellow cartridges to the same pristine level and refilled with Image Specialist inks without adverse effects.

However, at the moment the preponderance of evidence seems to be that it could be ticking time bomb, and consequently I swapped the chip onto a CLI-8 Yellow.

At the moment the evidence about the yellow problem is still circumstantial, but who wants to risk clogging or even frying a print head. Especially when swapping the chip is so simple.

Hopefully more empirical data will surface about this issue in due course. Certainly the manufacturer of Image Specialist inks should be commenting on this matter.

Roy S.

The Hat said:

I would be very confident and happy to use either of those cartridges, great job Al…

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Thanks.

PeterBJ said:

I don't know which cartridge is which, but in the last picture the cartridge at the right looks most clean and white to me.

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The cart with the black dot (on the left) is the refurbished CLI-8 cart. I edited the original post to make it stand out.

Thanks...Al

Roy Sletcher said:

I have cleaned one OEM yellow cartridges to the same pristine level and refilled with Image Specialist inks without adverse effects.

However, at the moment the preponderance of evidence seems to be that it could be ticking time bomb, and consequently I swapped the chip onto a CLI-8 Yellow.

At the moment the evidence about the yellow problem is still circumstantial, but who wants to risk clogging or even frying a print head. Especially when swapping the chip is so simple.

Hopefully more empirical data will surface about this issue in due course. Certainly the manufacturer of Image Specialist inks should be commenting on this matter.

Roy S.

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I already swapped the chip from the original Canon cart. I wanted to see if I could get it completely cleaned. I have no reservation using this cart at all, if needed, however, I've already have one of the CLI-8 carts filled and ready for service. I will keep cleaned Canon cart in inventory and use when necessary.

Thanks for the response.

Question. How do I reply to more than one response at a time, so that I don't have to create too many unnecessary posts?

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Methodical said:

Question. How do I reply to more than one response at a time, so that I don't have to create too many unnecessary posts?

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You can copy/past the relevant bits you want to respond to, into your response and put quote tags around them.

If you want each quote to correspond back to the original post (ie: with the quote=username, post: xxxx, member: ref_id) then you can right click each "Reply" link and choose "Open in new tab" (or window) and parse down the bits for each you wish to respond to before copy/pasting each nugget into a single response.

There is a new way to do this now by using the date and time in the top left corner, by just right clicking and (Copy shortcut) like this..

http://www.printerknowledge.com/threads/cleaned-cli-42-yellow-cart-you-be-the-judge.8553/#post-67652