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Thanks fofofreek for these tips. I have noted them to my file on "inkjet refilling". And, I can just see it now. I've sucked on a black ink cart and my teeth and mouth are black for days. The only thing left for a self respecting person to do is to tell people that my spouse hit me for...

turbguy OOOOh!!! Sounds like I'll have to do some mega experimentation to prevent that from happening to my 30 freshly flushed and dried carts. I think I'll know when I try to refill the first one of these carts, watching the sponge window on the side to see the penetration of the ink....or...

stratman Thank you ever so much for this advice. I'm grateful to all the posters here, but you and websnail have truly hung in there with me with your enduring patience through I'm sure some fairly dumb questions. I'll have to admit though, this is really fun. When I've done my first...

Thanks Martin. I will definitely take your advice and not refill all of them at once. I may have never even needed the 30 carts from Ebay, but I wanted to learn how to flush, dry, refill etc. And, they were not very expensive, they seem to be in good shape, and I figured it never hurts to...

Just purchased 30 virgin OEM carts from Ebay and they seem to be in very usable condition with the ball still in tact. I've flushed and wick dried 12 of them with 18 to go. After reading some posts on a dried sponge possibly starving the printhead of needed ink moisture and the problems that...

Stratman: Thank you for reposting this. However, now that I've flushed and dried about 12 OEM virgin carts with about 18 to go would you recommend that I use this sponge revival recipe of pharmacists on the 12 that I've already cleaned (and on the remaining 18 as well)? Do you do this...

Tha Hat: Thanks for your tips. As you've advised, I've changed my methodology to include adding the orange clip back to the cartridge if I need to change out the lipped plug for the flat one. And, I had realized after buying some virgin carts off Ebay that with the window I wouldn't need the...

Thank you rodbam and emerald. I've added your suggestions to my saved refill page with these great added steps, products, and ideas.

Geklingel Does this look like your scale?

While I've refilled an HP 98 & 95 cart, I've not yet refilled a cart in my MP990 printer with 220/221 carts. I did like irvweiner's idea for a toothpick dip stick method to refill and wanted to run this by ink refiller masters to be sure it makes sense. I've read a lot here and I want to make...

Mikling We will just never know as much as you do.

A Canon tech told me recently that the MP990 cleans; 1. when you turn on the machine. 2. when you put in a new cartridge 3. when you run a cleaning cycle yourself 4. when you put the printhead in. 5. and, ever so often on it's own (which tells me there is a timer of sorts that automatically...

Thanks Stratman: I will leave my printer on, print mostly on the fast setting (except for prints of artwork I do for clients and the art books that I'm writing), and will use the plain paper setting while using matte photo paper (it the print quality remains good). I have had the printer on all...

Installed my MP990 refurb recently and I'm just about to run out of ink and will get to do a refill. But, I have a problem with the printhead already. Canon is sending me a new printhead to replace mine. Thank gosh I had an extra black cartridge to put in the machine so the tech could...

Stratman Thanks for your thorough answer. Sounds like one of those brainteaser puzzles that you think is impossible to work, but by plugging away, voila. It's conquered. Someone will figure this out. I have all the faith in the world in these forum members. They are s-o-o-o-o smart.

ghwellsjr Mechanical genius I'm not so don't know if this makes sense, but the ink absorber pads that you decribe sound similar to the stuff you find at the base of a roast you buy in the meat market. It absorbs the blood past some plastic sheeting into a collection area with pads so it can...

Oh Dear. Not what I wanted to hear. Sounds like another hill to climb in a learning curve. Is it worth the time to learn how to bypass the pads and divert the waste ink somewhere else?

Stratman I'm sorry to ask such a silly question, but where does the ink go when the machine dumps ink as it performs an automatic cleaning?

Thanks, Redbrickman. BTW, I'm trying to get better at using the search function of this forum. I'm not really good at it yet, and I've been a bit scolded for asking so many, many questions. I do understand how monotonous it must be for the refill masters to keep repeating the same answers to...

Much thanks to all. I'm sure you saved me from a big mess. Redbrickman, that is a good tip to have a full reset cartridge on hand. I'll create a system for reset, refilled spares.