Refilled Color Cartridges with Wrong Inks - How to Fix Cheaply?

[ahchepey]

I mistakenly refilled my completely empty HP color cartridges using
the wrong color order. The HP color order sticker tricked me. >:-(

I've spent 2 days flushing it out with a syringe and warm water but
the ink still is very strong in color.

Luckily, I only injected 3 mL of ink per chamber (instead of the full
10 mL).


Has anyone made this same mistake and fixed it by cleaning out the
cartridge chambers?

Question: How many days should it take to dilute the mistakenly
injected ink with a syringe and water?

Question: Should I use rubbing alchohol or hydrogen peroxide to force
out the dye based ink? (I'd rather not purchase specialty chemicals
as I want to save money).

Question: Should I cut open the cartridge to wash it out faster? Will
it be difficult to glue back together without leakage?

 

[callsignviper]

Answer: Buy a new cartridge.

-Taliesyn

I second that emotion.......er, motion.

Too much trouble for no gain to try and clean the contaminated cartridge.

 

[psc]

I doubt it can ever be cleaned thoroughly enough. The foam rubber sponges
inside are just too dense to flush completely.

P.S. Next time, stick a plain wood toothpick into the sponge to verify the
color in that chamber. Use a differeint toothpick for each chamber.

Bryan

I mistakenly refilled my completely empty HP color cartridges using
the wrong color order. The HP color order sticker tricked me. >:-(

I've spent 2 days flushing it out with a syringe and warm water but
the ink still is very strong in color.

Luckily, I only injected 3 mL of ink per chamber (instead of the full
10 mL).

Has anyone made this same mistake and fixed it by cleaning out the
cartridge chambers?

Question: How many days should it take to dilute the mistakenly
injected ink with a syringe and water?

 

[ahchepey]

Answer: Buy a new cartridge.

That will not be cheap.

I will continue with my water flushing efforts until someone can
suggest a cheap and effective way to get my colors back to normal.

 

[Taliesyn]

That will not be cheap.

Now you see the benefit of buying a Canon or an Epson; you wouldn't
have this problem. You'd just go out and buy a new one because they're
so much cheaper.

I will continue with my water flushing efforts until someone can
suggest a cheap and effective way to get my colors back to normal.

Then buy a refurbished one, because your colors will forever be off -
mixed with the residue of your errors ;-).

-Taliesyn

 

[jbuch]

I made the same mistake once in refilling.

I finally threw out the cartridge with the mistaken inks.

I was on two budgets.... Money and lack of infinite time.

Let us know what it takes to finally overcome this mistake. It would be
valuable information for the next person who is faced with the same problem.

Jim

I mistakenly refilled my completely empty HP color cartridges using
the wrong color order. The HP color order sticker tricked me. >:-(

I've spent 2 days flushing it out with a syringe and warm water but
the ink still is very strong in color.

Luckily, I only injected 3 mL of ink per chamber (instead of the full
10 mL).


Has anyone made this same mistake and fixed it by cleaning out the
cartridge chambers?

Question: How many days should it take to dilute the mistakenly
injected ink with a syringe and water?

Question: Should I use rubbing alchohol or hydrogen peroxide to force
out the dye based ink? (I'd rather not purchase specialty chemicals
as I want to save money).

Question: Should I cut open the cartridge to wash it out faster? Will
it be difficult to glue back together without leakage?

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[Gordon]

I mistakenly refilled my completely empty HP color cartridges using
the wrong color order. The HP color order sticker tricked me. >:-(

No mater how much you flush, the colors will be off. Just buy a new
ink cartridge. If money is a problem purchase a refiled cartridge
for about half the price of the new HP cartridge.

You may be able to use the old cartridge for printing non-photo
graphics, charts and graphs. But I never would use that cartridge for
anything other than photo proofs.

Gordon

 

[callsignviper]

Not cheaper if you refill correctly.

That's the problem......wrong color used in one of the *chambers* results in
dead cartridge.

With a Canon ink tank the replacement Canon tank would be about $8-10 and
significantly less if a generic tank was used. With the HP tricolor
cartridge the replacement, even generic, will cost more.

 

[Pete Schweaty]

HA HA HA you stupid moron
this is what you get for being such a cheap bastard

Still laughing my ass off!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA

 

[Freddy]

Your wasting your time. Buy a reflled one on eBay for $16.95. Pete

 

[Lou]

If it is only one chamber and you have flushed it a number of times I would
try putting some of the right color ink in the chamber (you'll have to have
ink in the other chambers also to keep the nozzles from burning out), then I
would go to a desktop publishing program and make a big circle or square in
that program and make the circle or square just the color in the chamber you
have refilled with the right color ink. Then I would print a couple of
pages of that square and see if it clears up. I don't know how many pages it
would take. It might not be exact, but close enough to use after this.
Granted you are diminishing the life of your cartridge using it this way,
but the only thing you have to lose is the ink you put in the chamber. If
it works, then you have revived your cartridge. I did something like this
once, put blue in the yellow, but realized what I had done before completely
filling the chamber. I got it working again, better the more pages I printed
with the right ink.

 

[ahchepey]

HA HA HA you stupid moron
this is what you get for being such a cheap bastard

Still laughing my ass off!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA

The grasshopper may laugh but come winter, the ant will prevail and
live to see another season ... while the grasshopper starves to death.

 

[ahchepey]

Buddy, why don't you just go down to your local
computer store and steal one out of the display model. It would be a heck
of a lot faster and easier than what you're trying to do.

Thievery and potential criminal record is what you recommend? Just
goes to show who's a real fool around here.

 

[Pete Schweaty]

yea and I'm not the cheap bastard crying for help after a stupid move on
your part

 

[ahchepey]

yea and I'm not the cheap bastard crying for help after a stupid move on
your part

You're the one who leisurely wastes money in life. Meanwhile, I've
been using money saving methods which will ensure my survival in the
long run.

Good luck in the winter. You'll definitely need it.

 

[Al Gore]

You're so poor (cheap) that you can't afford a $35 cartridge, but rich
enough to spend a week's time, energy, and water trying to fix something so
petty? Sounds to me like you're the one wasting. Wasting the precious gift
of life, that is.

 

[Pete Schweaty]

well said

You're so poor (cheap) that you can't afford a $35 cartridge, but rich
enough to spend a week's time, energy, and water trying to fix something so
petty? Sounds to me like you're the one wasting. Wasting the precious gift
of life, that is.

 

[Pete Schweaty]

hey dipshit if you can't afford the cost of running a printer then maybe you
shouldn't own one.

 

[ahchepey]

hey dipshit if you can't afford the cost of running a printer then maybe you
shouldn't own one.

Who said it was my printer? Maybe, I refilling someone else's printer
cart who doesn't print color often but I decided to do them a favor by
filling up their empty cartridge (which was empty for months).

Or maybe I'm reviewing the ink quality of refills.

Or maybe I'm testing the sturdiness of an HP inkcart by constantly
injecting it with water over a week?

Maybe I'm doing all 3 and would provide useful data to this newsgroup.
Someone was clearly interested in the results (I'm sure several others
are too).

Of course, you were too impulsive to think about asking about those
important questions and jumped to silly, unfounded, and untrue
conclusions and resorted to childish angery outbursts simply because I
pointed out your wasteful and unenvironmental lifestyle.

No offense, but you're useless. If you couldn't answer my question in
my first post, why bother responding? Clearly, you have nothing
better to do than poorly (meaning you failed) insult others on a
printer newsgroup. That shows that you're pathetic and useless. So
sad you are. I feel sorry for your parents.

 

[Larry]

Buy a new cartridge. You will not be successful, and by the time you're
done the heads will be shot anyway.

-Larry