Homebrew PCBs

Depends on the cartridge. The C6x and C8x series cartridges have
valved on both the ink outlet -and- air inlet. Making the stock
cartridges very hard to fill.

Steve Greenfield

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Stefan Trethan"
<stefan_trethan@...> wrote:
>
> maybe those use such a strange negative pressure vaccum do it wrong
and  
> you have a flood thing HP used to use...
> 
> ST
> 
> 
> On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 18:01:28 +0200, Lez <lez.briddon@...> wrote:
> 
> > I have just found a uk site that do a spongless cartirdge for my
> >
> > printer (t007) (wished I could find a t009)
> >
> >
> > They also sell pigment inks etc so I thought I was onto a winner, but
> >
> > I read this on their...
> >
> > <quote>
> >
> >
> > These tools are required to fill the spongeless cartridges (you cannot
> >
> > use an ordinary syringe). We supply one with each cartridge set but
> >
> > you may want additional tools so you don't have to wash them between
> >
> > colours.
> >
> >
> > They are like syringes but have a hollow plunger so that air can be
> >
> > withdrawn from the cartridge when the plunger is pulled out and then
> >
> > replaced with ink when the plunger is pushed in. They come with a long
> >
> > metal tube to allow ink to be loaded from thebottom of our 100ml
> >
> > bottles.
> >
> >
> > </end quote>
> >
> >
> > Err, dont you just inject the ink into the cartridge ?