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I've been known to put a few drops (not sure of the actual percentages) in my refilled HP 02 cartridges. I have pints of each color left of this cheap ink that I bought about two years ago... about every three months it would clog the printer even with frequent usage. With a bit of Windex...

Interesting. This may be a good solution for those who don't have the equipment or don't want to bother with profiling their printer. You gonna start selling this stuff? ;-)

I wonder how much cleaning cycles are increased on these newer printers when ink level monitoring is disabled?

I top off cartridges all the time and experience no leakage. About 10 cartridges a week, different printers. I wonder what's different?

On the CLI-221 series when the cartridge is flipped over you can still see the clear "prism" on the underside in between the ink reservoir and the sponge area. After I have once filled the reservoir and flipped it back over so that it can soak into the sponge, I then top off the reservoir...

To get the needle in straight I just try and keep a little pressure on the needle so it stays flat across the bottom of the cartridge. This seems to work well for me.

If the print is not perfect try and clean again. Windex takes a while to fully dissolve all of the deposits. Let it sit overnight, rinse, and repeat.

Then without an ARC or resettable chip there is no hope to refill that printer.

There is no way to override them like on the Canon or HP printers?

I haven't seen anyone refilling these cartridges. I'm assuming that they are chipped, can you continue to print after the printer says that a cartridge is out of ink? If so, then I'm sure that there is a way to refill these cartridges.

Yes, you could transfer the chip from your PGI520 and then ignore the empty cartridge warning. If you have a chip resetter, you could also reset your PGI520 chip so it will show "full" with the new cartridge.

I had this happen once with an OEM cyan cartridge that had only been refilled 4-5 times using the German method. I'm still not sure what happened to it, I could see no visible difference with that cartridge and others that I have. I purged the cartridge and it made no difference. Let us know...

Time to get this imported to the US so we can play with it :-)

First off, if this is not the correct place for me to post this then please move it! I recently bought a Canon IP6000D which uses the BCI-6 (And also CLI-8? Not sure) cartridges. Unfortunately, 4 of the 6 cartridges are strange aftermarket ones that are really dried up and have a SMALL sponge...

The printer has to prime the system first go around, which takes quite a bit of ink

Tis the season :)

At only ten pages a week you would probably be better suited with the cartridges. Less potential headaches! Especially since you wouldn't be printing enough to realize the benefits of a CISS.

I'm certainly not an expert, but it appears that you have an electrical problem. This is evidenced by the exact 50% band in the dark cyan strip. Also, the exact vertical banding present in the magenta strips.

:( My condolences.

Yes, I have a small area dedicated to printers still in the box. I bought my first Canon printer last March. Before that I had been refilling HPs since about 2003. Both the single black/tri-color type with the built in printhead and the HP 02 type cartridges. I always had good success...