Brad said:
The magenta in my colour cartridge ran out last week, and I refilled it last
night. I have the HP 1350, its the 57 cartridge. My other colours were ok,
didn't need to refill them yet. This cartridge was also refilled by an ink
refill shop last year.
I only used maybe 2ml of ink. I can draw the ink out, but when I print, it
starts ok but fades out, as shown in the images below.
http://img278.imageshack.us/img278/3705/magenta16zc.jpg
The yellow-magenta-yellow is suppose to be yellow, magenta, red.
http://img278.imageshack.us/img278/4382/magenta25yg.jpg
Ink is not getting drawn down to the header, I am not sure why. Any
suggestions?
Thanks
Exactly what happened with my 78 cartridge. But
all may not be lost.
My first refill of a 78 cartridge went smoothly
because I refilled before it went empty. The
second refill was not as good because I put
pigmented black in the cyan chamber. Realizing
the problem immediately, I pulled as much out as
possible, then added cyan, and pulled it out (to
rinse the chamber) and added more cyan. I let it
sit until it quit weeping; it bled a lot of cyan
ink. Then I put the cartridge in the printer and
got streaks, cleaned it, medium cleaned it, and
then deep cleaned it and it was ok. If the
printer was not used for a few days, it would
print with streaks, but would clear on the second
picture.
Finally it ran out ink again (of cyan of course)
and I refilled it. I noted that the cyan chamber
in particular seemed to have a fairly hard sponge
and figured that might reduced the capacity some.
The cartridge dripped a lot after filling and
when it had nearly stopped, I put it the printer
which printed a very bad test, so I cleaned it,
another poor test print, medium cleaned it and
the test was generally ok. I printed a 1 page
year calender with small picture and the first
three were small pictures were ok and the rest
showed a lack of cyan. I did this several times
and every time the first row was generally ok, so
I knew ink was there but it just wasn't moving
fast enough toward the head. I assume that the
capacity had been reduce by my mess up with the
black pigmented ink. So I, gave up and went to
bed. The next evening I prepared to mess with the
cartridge again to see if could get it to work
(more vent, more ink, etc.) Before I took the
cartridge out, I printed the calendar and
everything was fine.
My conclusion was that the main problem was an air
bubble near the head that caused the problem and
it was slowly absorbed over a 20 hour period. I
still believe that the capacity of the sponge. If
I were you I would let the cartridge sit for a
couple of days and then try it. If blotting the
print head shows a good ink pattern, the problem
is not lack of ink or a clogged head. And, trying
to print without ink flowing through the head can
result in the heat chambers being damaged.
