Digital BW, The Print

Yesterday I had to refill several spongeless carts for my Epson R220.
One of them leaked pretty bad during refilling, emptying half its
content on several layers of newspaper. I put the top plug back on,
cleaned the mess up and now I'm left with an half empty cart. 

So this time I put a bottom fill adapter (without the serynge) up the
bottom hole and ascertained that it was nice and tight. Took the plug
off, refilled the cart, put the plug back on and took out the bottom
fill adapter. Voila, no leaks. It worked but I still fear an
in-printer leak.

Cheers,
Andre

Andre:

I don't know how you work when refilling a cartridge.  In my practice,
the only time I had a leak while refilling was when I overlooked
taping the outlet port.

For the Epson Photo 2200 (MIS sponge carts)and a Canon i9900 with MIS
cartridges also, my first act upon removing a cartridge is to wipe the
exit port clean with a paper towel.  I then cut about three inches of
plastic electrician's tape which I stretch tightly as I center it on
the exit port and secure it to the cart sides.

I then remove the bit of tape (no plug) which seals the fill hole.  I
give that area a swipe with the paper towel and then apply a small
spring clamp to the non-sponge area of the cartridge.  Ink is then
added and, generally, a new bit of tape closes the fill hole.  The
clamp is then removed and the cartridge returned to the machine after,
of course, removing the exit port tape.

Reinald
--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Andre Moreau"
<andre1moreau@...> wrote:

>
> Yesterday I had to refill several spongeless carts for my Epson R220.
> One of them leaked pretty bad during refilling, emptying half its
> content on several layers of newspaper. I put the top plug back on,
> cleaned the mess up and now I'm left with an half empty cart. 
>