Re: HP 56/57/58 and Lexmark 10N series (Inkjet Refilling Talk)

Re: HP 56/57/58 and Lexmark 10N series
Author: Alchemist	December 1, 2003 at 21:10:51
in reply to: Re: HP 56/57/58 and Lexmark 10N series* posted by Michael Kay on December 1, 2003 at 20:45:30*

Michael,

Are you cleaning and drying the cartridge before refilling? If not the dried pigment will reduce your ability to get a full refill. Are you vacuum refilling? I normally pull a vacuum of 24" for about 3 seconds on the vacuum chamber, before injecting my ink into the cartridge. I have tried several inks using Cabott dispersions and they seem to work well. Doing so I have been able to average a total refill weight of 51 grams for the HP 56. I do not have enough data yet to give a good refill weight for the HP 57. I am testing some replacement foam and if it works will report the source.

Alchemist

> Hi Yianni, Thanks for your post, and the additional
> information by email. Just today I received a shipment of
> new 56 and 57 HP carts. The black (56) weigh in at 52g, and
> the color (57) weighs in at 56g. On refilling the carts we
> average a weight of about 48g for the black,
>
> and about 50g for the color. This figure drops with each successive
> refill. I have not been disassembling the carts as you do, so I
> have not achieved weights as low as you have (26.5g). Adding 19g to the
>
> 26.5g - or in our case about 28g we have 45.5g, and 47g
> respectively. Of course, ml and g do not match up exactly,
> but I am using it here as
>
> an example. My point is that we just barely are making the 19 ml on
>
> a first refill and it seems to be dropping rather rapidly.
> While attempting to refill a second and third time, we have
> had a lot of trouble with leakage indicating an overfill.
> The purpose of my first post was to see if anyone would
> contact me with a source of new sponge material, however,
> being rather slow, I made a mess of the entry.

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Re: HP 56/57/58 and Lexmark 10N series Michael Kay 12:17:02 12/2/2003 (1)
- Re: HP 56/57/58 and Lexmark 10N series arleen zomer 22:04:17 3/30/2004 (0)

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> Michael, > > Are you cleaning and drying the cartridge before refilling? If not the dried pigment will reduce your ability to get a full refill. Are you vacuum refilling? I normally pull a vacuum of 24" for about 3 seconds on the vacuum chamber, before injecting my ink into the cartridge. I have tried several inks using Cabott dispersions and they seem to work well. Doing so I have been able to average a total refill weight of 51 grams for the HP 56. I do not have enough data yet to give a good refill weight for the HP 57. I am testing some replacement foam and if it works will report the source. > > Alchemist > > > Hi Yianni, Thanks for your post, and the additional > > information by email. Just today I received a shipment of > > new 56 and 57 HP carts. The black (56) weigh in at 52g, and > > the color (57) weighs in at 56g. On refilling the carts we > > average a weight of about 48g for the black, > > > > and about 50g for the color. This figure drops with each successive > > refill. I have not been disassembling the carts as you do, so I > > have not achieved weights as low as you have (26.5g). Adding 19g to the > > > > 26.5g - or in our case about 28g we have 45.5g, and 47g > > respectively. Of course, ml and g do not match up exactly, > > but I am using it here as > > > > an example. My point is that we just barely are making the 19 ml on > > > > a first refill and it seems to be dropping rather rapidly. > > While attempting to refill a second and third time, we have > > had a lot of trouble with leakage indicating an overfill. > > The purpose of my first post was to see if anyone would > > contact me with a source of new sponge material, however, > > being rather slow, I made a mess of the entry.
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