While self refilling your ink cartridges may be an attractively cost-effective way of taking care of your printing needs, there are many pitfalls and circumstances which depend on its success. Inktank cartridges are not included here.

Inkjet Cartridges – Refilling

1) Vacuum Conditions

You have to fill ink cartridges under vacuum conditions, if you don’t it creates air bubbles inside the cartridge. When this happens the ink gets blocked and the ink cartridge will not work.

2) Quality of the ink.

If you refill a inkjet cartridge yourself you’ll probably be buying poor quality ink which won’t give good printing results. We use high quality German ink manufactured by a company called OCP. The ink we use has a very similar test result to original ink cartridges.

3) Getting the ink cartridges to work.

Once an ink cartridge has been filled you need to feed ink into its printhead ready for printing. This is done by a special machine which uses suction to draw ink directly to the inkjet cartridge printhead.

4) Specialist Equipment

While you don’t need specialist remanufacturing equipment to fill an ink cartridge it certainly helps. At ink’n’toner’uk we use state-of-the-art remanufacturing equipment to fill all our compatible ink cartridges. We go quite a long way to ensure you get the very best compatible ink cartridges from us and implement lengthy and time consuming techniques and procedures to ensure that our cartridges will not only you the best printing results but they will continue to give you fantastic looking printing for the duration of the ink cartridges life.

5) Age of the cartridges you are filling

You should be refilling an ink cartridge as soon as it has been used up to prevent the sponge from drying up and the printhead becoming blocked. The longer you leave an ink cartridge the less likely it is to work. If you do want to buy refilling kits however here are ours.

6) Testing for quality

We would like to point out that all our compatible inkjet cartridges which we sell have all been tested for print quality and electrical failure. People who refill their ink cartridge themselves may not be able to identify if the reason their ink cartridge is not working is because the electrical strip on the ink cartridge is broken.

FAQ

What is an ink cartridge printhead?

The printhead is where the ink comes out of the ink cartridge. It is located on the bottom of the inkjet cartridge and also prints out the image of your page.

What is a sponge in ink cartridges?

The sponge is where all the ink in an ink cartridge is stored. Sponges sit inside the inkjet cartridge and cannot be seen. The sponge, however, will become heavy when it is full of ink and will become lighter as the ink is used up.

What is the electrical strip on the outside of the ink cartridge for?

The electrical strip is the brain of the ink cartridge. Its job is to tell the ink cartridge what to print. It can be seen on the outside of the ink cartridge and, additionally, has contact points which connect with your printers electrics.