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About inkjet printer ink
No, you can't refill your HP DeskJet cartridges
with fountain pen ink!
(The following is from someone who also sells
inkjet refill kits so this may not be an entirely unbiased writeup.)
(From: John Connolly (toner@idirect.com).)
There are at least 10 ingredients in inkjet ink,
starting with triple distilled, de-ionized water, dye or pigment
color of a known particle size, humectants such as glycol to minimize
evaporation (and head clogging), surfactants to balance the surface
tension and paper wetting, resins to get good paper adhesion, biocides
and fungicides and buffering agents for the correct pH. These considerations
ensure that properly reverse engineered inks not only work, but
produce a print comparable to the OEM. For printers like Epson,
with fixed permanent print heads in the printer, expensive repairs
are also avoided.
To make matters worse HP has rigged their most
popular black cartridges for the Deskjet 500 & 600 series to curb
refilling, with air bladders, constantly changing maze/ venting
assemblies at the bottom, and logic to change the signals to the
micro-resistor jets on the 3rd or subsequent reinstallation of the
cartridge. The color cartridges for these MUST be refilled before
air locks occur, particularly in the yellow chamber.
Some people still manage to get an acceptable
refilling success rate with these Deskjets, but we feel it is a
bad introduction to refilling for the first time refiller. Deskjet
series 700, 800 & 900 are better bets to refill.
But, the current Lexmark, Canon, Xerox and Epson
cartridges are by far the easiest to refill.
Image Control's refill kits for the Canon 4000
series refill the BCI-21 black 40 times, or the BCI-21, 12 times
EACH color.
More details on inkjet inks, a description of
our refill kits which are larger than most offered, references and
printer/cartridge tips are available at Image
Control's Web Site.
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