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sure you can.

oh i thought it would continuosly open and close during the printing and it would stay otherwise closed when the printer was off avoiding ink coming out, my mistake. Yep i got it wrong the way i was thinking it. it actually its on H ;) in mikling picture its right under that plastic "spike"...

there is actually another valve, after the damper towards the outlet hole inside that "pipe" that can be clearly seen in the pic, i think the "damper" and that valve work together to form a sort of pump so once that last valve opens and create a litle negative pressure the damper sucks ink into...

I know im new here and i dont really know much but i bothered opening a TO441 cartridgeto see how it was working. So here are both sides of the cartridge (for the casual visitors: its not a cartridge cut in half, just the same piece of plastic with one picture per side one beside the other)...

Never intended to hit the technicians or all the repair people and connected to them. In my ignorance i always thought that the ink left in there was a waste and you gave me an explaination for it that makes perfect sense, i still think that 1/4 of the ink being not used its a little too much...

chippedoff, Bob Powell came out with that, the pic its from a page in his site actually. But i fully second it. I understand the usefulness of a chip that tells you the ink level of a cartridge, maybe its less expensive than an optical device nowadays, maybe, who knows...(id vote for a toilet...

wow, mikling, now that sort of worries me, i had the idea that the ink in the cartridge and the new one could not being happy together but i didnt figure it would have been much of a big deal if i started printing a lot after the first refill to lets say "flush" until it was practically all new...

thanks for the replies. Switching from epson to canon its out of the question, for some reasons too long to explain ill keep going on with this one, i own even an old canon bjc4200 that i have some "plotter projects" for, so i might think of turning those cartridges into continuos flow (if ill...

hi everyone, i just came across your forum looking for instructions on how to refill epson cartridges. I have an epson cx4600 and i found the refills (ims ink) only because they were at Costco right beside the original cartridges. had no idea that a chip resetting device existed before that, so...