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Getting Fingers Dirty
After lurking forever and hemming/hawing about it- I just refilled my first CLI-8 cart for my Canon Pro9000.
I knew I didnt want to pay the insane oen prices, and after a bad experience with some aftermarket refilled carts (LD brand), I was committed to trying it myself.
This forum was crucial in giving me the confidence to do it (top fill, with Mikling-vent-block step to avoid oversat the sponge).
Well, it was pretty darn anticlimactic!
everything went great- too me longer to type this than to actually do the whole thing.
The only danger I saw was nearly tipping over the bottle of ink while refilling..... methinks some squeeze bottles will be in my future!
So just a few questions before I try my 2nd cart:
1. Do I need to make sure the syringe and needle is BONE DRY before starting? I bought a syringe for each color- but now I see that was overkill since it cleans up so well.... but just wondering on this question.
2. How full do I fill the cli-8 cart so that the chip is accurate? Im using a resetter and want to make sure. I underfilled the first cart (thinking that would be a good trial), but then realized that was the worse possible choice since it will likely run dry before the chip says so....
3. Since I'm switching to Hobbicolors- should I just swap out all the other non-OEM carts regardless of ink left?
I knew I didnt want to pay the insane oen prices, and after a bad experience with some aftermarket refilled carts (LD brand), I was committed to trying it myself.
This forum was crucial in giving me the confidence to do it (top fill, with Mikling-vent-block step to avoid oversat the sponge).
Well, it was pretty darn anticlimactic!
everything went great- too me longer to type this than to actually do the whole thing.The only danger I saw was nearly tipping over the bottle of ink while refilling..... methinks some squeeze bottles will be in my future!
So just a few questions before I try my 2nd cart:
1. Do I need to make sure the syringe and needle is BONE DRY before starting? I bought a syringe for each color- but now I see that was overkill since it cleans up so well.... but just wondering on this question.
2. How full do I fill the cli-8 cart so that the chip is accurate? Im using a resetter and want to make sure. I underfilled the first cart (thinking that would be a good trial), but then realized that was the worse possible choice since it will likely run dry before the chip says so....
3. Since I'm switching to Hobbicolors- should I just swap out all the other non-OEM carts regardless of ink left?
