Digital BW, The Print

> Sounds like it.  I must admit taking the cap off should have been 
> obvious. ;-)  The breakage of the collars seems a bit odd unless 
> you over tightened them.  They do not need to be tightened much at 
> all - very gently is enough. At any rate they don't cost much and 
> sounds like you have a few spares. Try not to break the bottom 
> fill adaptor. (I'm not sure why you got the big syringes - 10ml 
> syringes are ok.)  Check the packaging to see if you can find the 
> rubber plugs for the cartridges (a small re-sealable plastic bag).
> MIS doesn't normally forget them.  In the interim some tape over 
> the holes will do.  
> 
> BTW when you rinse the syringes it's ok to pull the plunger 
> entirely out of the cylinder so that things dry a lot faster.
> 
> Good luck. 

I hindsight I guess taking the caps off should have been obvious but 
the needle and bottom fill adapters both fit nicely over the end of 
the cap and it looked like there was an opening there so it 
seemed "obvious" to me initially that that was what was done.

I got the 30mm syringes because that's that MIS sold me. They knew 
what I was doing (refilling 2200 carts obviously) and that's what 
they said to get. I didn't know any better. I agree that these are 
too big and clumsy. My ordering experiences with MIS have not been 
flawless -- it seems that at least in my case that one of their 
hands didn't know what the other one was doing.

No rubber plugs to be found. I don't have the original package any 
more so it possible that they were overlooked and discarded but I 
see no mention of them on the otherwise comprehensive invoice.

So, finally have been able to refill two Eboni cartridges that I had 
bought previously (that have the little caps).

I do have another question.

After using the bottom fill adapter to draw out about 1ml of ink, I 
went to top off the cartridge with the ink that was withdrawn. One 
of the two refilled carts clearly has about 3/8 of inch of emptiness 
at the top so I think it is safe to assume that it is not full.

Strangely when attempting to top off this cart (using an inserted 
needle), it simply would not accept any ink -- it just bubbled up 
from the hole. (But I was able to top off the second cartridge.) 

I can't figure that one out though. Physics hints at some kind of 
pressure thing but I'm baffled why I cannot top off this cartridge.

Am I nuts? Is this how these things are designed -- that is, once 
the bottom fill adapter is used to move some of the ink around 
inside the cartridge, is there some reason why more ink cannot be 
added?

Man, I feel like I'm back in the first grade...