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Re: Reset K7 carts?

2008-03-17 by Jon Cone

All K7 cartridges are designed for refilling. The usual method is to
use a syringe and the vacuum method through the small silicon plug on
the top of the cartridge through which we initially fill the cart.

Temporarily tape over the vent hole. Fill a clean syringe with about
15ml of ink, insert it into the cart, draw out a vacuum, replace the
vacuum with the contents of the syringe. It may take more than one
attempt due to the introduction of foamy ink. But, if you draw your
vacuum slowly through the ink in the syringe, or invert the cart so it
does not draw through the ink, you should be able to replace the
vacuum without introducing foam.  Any foam will go away with an hour
anyway. Then reset the chip, remove the tape and away you go.

Most of our carts hold 21ml ink, but EPSON chip readers in their
printers will not allow more than the use of about 14ml. So you should
be refilling a cartridge which still has some ink contents. This
unfortunately is normal.

Jon

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "hflockwood"
<hflockwood@...> wrote:
>
> Jon,
> 
> Is it possible to reuse the K7 carts from Inkjetmall by refilling
from the bottom, then using a 
> chip resetter?
> 
> Harry
>

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