Which type of refill ink for Brother LC1000 cartridges

[pharmacist]

A friend of mine is asking me to refill here Brother LC1000 cartridges. As far as I know Brother printheads are piezo based like Epson. Can I use the same ink for Canon printers or should I use Epson compatible dye/pigment ink... ?

Does someone has experience with refilling Brother cartridges using an aftermarket ink made for another type of printer (Canon, Epson) ?

 

[tigerwan]

You should only use ink made to refill your particular cartridge, NEVER an ink made to fill other cartridges.

 

[Tin Ho]

I once tested the ink of a Brother inkjet printer. It had Black and CMY inks. I washed the print and the ink including black all washed off. That told me that Brother uses dye based inks in that printer. I don't think it was an LC1000. It was an older model. I thought it uses thermo print head too. I was once told by an Epson sales rep that Epson is the only manufacturer that uses piezo print head. Well, this does not apply to all industrial printers. I had seen one that wasn't Epson but had a piezo print head. My believe is HP, Canon, Brother and Lexmark printers all use thermo print heads.

 

[Smile]

You can use HP dye ink in Canon printer without any problems, but to get correct colors you need a custom profile.

 

[pharmacist]

As I can conclude that Brother is using therm print heads and HP dye ink can be used in a Canon printer. Thus using Canon ink is possible in Brother cartridges.......

Actually the Brother is a CIS-based printer with stationary inktanks and the ink is fed to the printhead by capillary action.

 

[chaosoffar]

I have a couple Brothers with LC41 carts, only the one's been in use for a while though. I've been refilling with a G&G ink refill kit(used their carts before) without a problems. I've really only found a link or two selling Brother specific ink, not sure on the quality of the inks/links I did find. Here's the one link I bookmarked: http://www.oddparts.com/ink/Ink_Listings/Brother/LC41.htm