refilling once again

[TMorris862@aol.com]

Well it now seems like I have a following on this list.

I get a lot of posts thanking me as they really have learned a lot from my 
many tricks I have posted. I only post these trick because a lot of times it 
is very easy to do things that some folks will tell you are impossible to 
do.Hey I just do what I have to do.

The reason I posted the reply to the person saying that refilling is a big 
pain is he was right as doing anything incorreclty is a big pain! I really 
have no big master plan here guys I am just making my "day job" as small as 
possible so I can get going like a lot of folks want to with a Epson product 
line.

When I first started to refill over 2 years ago nobody and I mean nobody (I 
asked) had a clue how to refill the Epson cartridges. What is a surprise to 
me is that  almost the same applies today! I mean why the other refilling 
guys do not tell you to weigh the cartridges after your attempt to refill is 
you will see instanly what a poor refill fraction you are getiing! I get 100% 
to 110% of the Epson ink volume with all of my refills and  have been getting 
this refill volume for about 6 months now!

 I have been refilling for about 1 year now with a greatly reduced vacuum. As 
I have posted I traded the high vacuum for a much higher flow vloume.I get 
perfect printing better than facory cartridges. I never get banding and I got 
some banding with factory cartridges! I weigh each refill as a quality 
control and I always get my refills to contain more ink than the Epson 
factory filled ones!

I flush 100CC's to 200 CC"s of ink thrugh the carridges at almost no real 
effective vacuum! I have found this works way better than a high vaccum. You 
see the high vacuun systems tend to suck in air through the small leakls that 
form around the cheaply designed sealing methods they use. And I do not have 
to prepump out the air before I refill!

It just takes a tiny and I mean pin hole leak to ruin an entire refill! Once 
the air is sucked in it will be almost impossible to get out using the 
current crop of so called vacuum refill sysyems. Sorry but the sponge media 
is a bubble magnet!

I tried the injection method using just a syringe for months it just does not 
work! But if you must use injection then get at least 2 sets of cartridges to 
refill. And allow then to sit for 10 hours before you use them. Top them off 
each hour for several times before you stop refilling. You must wiegh the 
cartrigdes to make sure you got enough ink for like a few pages of printing. 
I would keep a log and then pull out the cartridges within the limits that 
give good printing! Sorry but the injection method is not very good you will 
hit a lot of bubbles and get skips. In general you may get like 30% or less 
of the printing that you would expect from a factory filled cartridge! 

                                             TomCat

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