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Great post----seeing is believing.

Having bought two hobbicolor refill kits for two printers---with no spare cartridges bought-------I now look to my supply of OEM cartridges and some used bulkinkjetcarts.com to provide one or more replacement sets of cartridges. Step one seems to be to create a new ink inlet hole. I note that...

Neil, I agree with that residual ink factor---which is why my 45x had that already figured in---and I was using 10.5 ml as the amount of ink to refill.---and not the 14 ml. You are also right about the cleaning cycles-----but I assume those would occur equally regardless if an OEM cartridge or...

To rainy, Given you have one printer, you might just get two hobbicolor medium refill kits--which would get you a 8,4,4,4---2 complete cartridges sets and even an extra syringe.---remember that the ink only has a shelf life of two years. And 2 kits cost very little more to ship then one. Then...

To Neil, Who informs me that if beg Joe I may be able to get ink in 16 oz. bottles at a $96./ US gallon rate.--which leaves my Canon estimated OEM charge at $4323.43 for a US gallon OEM BCI-6 ink unchanged when bought in BCI-6 OEM cartridges. So now your estimated saving factor goes from a...

To Neil, Reading this post and your referenced post---a few things puzzle me about your math. 1. You state that you have printed 20,000 pages with 200 oz. of ink---or 100 pages per ounce---which would be about 33.82 pages per 10 ml increment.--so given that, I have to conclude you are doing...

I have somewhat been interested in the same question---without actually dong the sciece stuff my self I rely on a post by JV on bukinkjetcarts----where he by weight determined that a Canon BCI-6 contained 14 ml of ink---and the low ink light came on with 3.5 ml of ink left in sponge----vs. the...

I don't have a printer that takes BCI-24 cartridges, certainly would regard them as too small to be good refill candidates, but I do know there are a plethora of third party vendors who sell those cartridges at a buck a pop.--and at that price they probably would be not be worth the hassle in...

I certainly now agree with any posting recommending that the hobbicolor ink outlet cap should be removed prior to the first initial fill. But sadly I did not read that advice until I did my first fills of virgin cartridges. But I was feeling somewhat smug because I felt that a paper towel...

If hpnetserver is correct on this spring loaded valve in spongeless cartridges, this may be a reason they are so problamistic. If this outlet to valve distance is not a dimension that is tightly controlled in printer manufacture, be it printer to printer in a given model and make or across all...

Yep great idea. But now you got me a little baffled. 1. Where exactly did you get the container--it looks ideal. Well worth buchering for a buck. 2. How did you cut the holes in the cover--they look precise but I note the left forground hole is a little ragged.---but anything that works will...

Yes, you should uncover the air vent which is usually located at the back end of the sponge section on top. Its usually covered by a small piece of tape or plastic you pull away--often it says pull. As the ink goes out, the air vent allows pressure to equalise in the catridge. With the air vent...

Sound like to me that your cyan cartridge is not feeding correctly---over time you get enough ink through the sponge to get some ink to the ink outlet---you print something depleteting ink faster than the sponge lets ink through.---no ink to the printhead means nothing to absorb the energy of a...

I agree with drc0232 on all those clairifcations. All I know is that 16 oz of each color would like last me forever. And Dave at Hobbicolors recommends or advertises the ink has a shelf life of two years. One standard medium kit comes with 4 oz of pigmented black and 2 oz each of each color...

To Alexandereci. 1. I would say any ink vendor that makes no distintion between inks---or basically vends the same ink for all printers is to be avoided. You are asking for trouble---why--stick with inks approved on this forum. Hobbicolors is by no means the only good ink---hobbicolors is...

I can't comment on the two local brands-- ink man and ink king as I have never used them. Maybe other users can-----but given so many inks have been reviewed on this site, its a why buy a pig in the poke-----the general advice is there is no universal inks that work in any printer---the ink...

All three are different printers. The ip2000 is based on the ip1500 printer engine---I think the ip2000 has the additional bell of pic bridge support---but that printer is non-chipped but uses rather small size cartridges---a BCI-24 black and another BCI-24 color cartridge---and OEM vs. OEM...

I am guessing hobbicolors is in a wierd situation vending on ebay---ebay probably wants a piece of the action regardless if Hobbicolors vends on ebay or on some independent channel. Until Hobbicolors severs all links to ebay that will probably be so regarding developing independent channels...

I had somewhat the same experience---but on the four color kit---some weeks all kits are listed, some weeks some kits are missing, at least on the ebay site. You can get a contact email address by googling hobbicolors--and finding the hobbicolors.com website---or wait a week and it will probably...

Hold on here, This turn on turn off thing may be the problem. When a Canon printer is turned on with its power switch, then powered off by simply cutting power off to the printer, the heads don't park correctly. Exposing the ink outlet to air and drying everything up. When the printer is next...