Inkjet Printer Ink
No, you can't refill your HP DeskJet cartridges with
fountain pen ink!
(The following is from someone who also sells inkjet
refill kits so this may not be an entirely unbiased
writeup.)
(From: John Connolly (toner@idirect.com).)
There are at least 10 ingredients in inkjet ink,
starting with triple distilled, de-ionized water,
dye or pigment color of a known particle size,
humectants such as glycol to minimize evaporation
(and head clogging), surfactants to balance the
surface tension and paper wetting, resins to get
good paper adhesion, biocides and fungicides and
buffering agents for the correct pH. These
considerations ensure that properly reverse
engineered inks not only work, but produce a print
comparable to the OEM. For printers like Epson, with
fixed permanent print heads in the printer,
expensive repairs are also avoided.
To make matters worse HP has rigged their most
popular black cartridges for the Deskjet 500 & 600
series to curb refilling, with air bladders,
constantly changing maze/ venting assemblies at the
bottom, and logic to change the signals to the
micro-resistor jets on the 3rd or subsequent
reinstallation of the cartridge. The color
cartridges for these MUST be refilled before air
locks occur, particularly in the yellow chamber.
Some people still manage to get an acceptable
refilling success rate with these Deskjets, but we
feel it is a bad introduction to refilling for the
first time refiller. Deskjet series 700, 800 & 900
are better bets to refill.
But, the current Lexmark, Canon, Xerox and Epson
cartridges are by far the easiest to refill.
Image Control's refill kits for the Canon 4000
series refill the BCI-21 black 40 times, or the
BCI-21, 12 times EACH color.
More details on inkjet inks, a description of our
refill kits which are larger than most offered,
references and printer/cartridge tips are available
at
Image Control's Web Site.
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