Written Flushing Instructions Thanks to Joe's tutelage, my foray into refilling my Canon Pro-100 cartridges has been a pleasant success! But when I'm faced with flushing a cartridge a year from now, I don't want to have to look through Joe's videos just to re-learn how to do it! :) (I forget easily). So to that end, I wrote instructions based on my own experience, and would like to share them here. NOTE that these instructions ARE overkill! But they're meant to be overkill for newbies. Once you're comfortable with what you're doing, you can modify, or even discard portions of these instructions! *** FLUSHING METHODOLOGY *** ASSUMPTION: You are flushing a MODIFIED cartridge! NOTE: If flushing a black or a gray cartridge, you should be able to start at step #2. FLUSH PREP & INITIAL FLUSH 1. Using a 30ml - 60ml syringe with a properly fitting tip adapter, Inject 60 ml of Windex (with Ammonia) into the cartridge. (Maneuver cart in all orientations while doing so). Rinse any discharged ink from outside of cartridge. Let sit for 30 - 60 mins. 2. Using a 30ml - 60ml syringe (best is 60ml), flush the cartridge with tap water till the Windex and most of - if not all - physical ink is flushed out of the sponge. 3. Evaluate if another soaking with Windex is required (or a first soaking, if skipped Step 1). I.e., is there still stubborn ink, or a prominent ink stain in the sponge? If so, then repeat Steps 1 and 2. COMPLETE FLUSH 4. Using the same syringe as Step 2, flush with 240 - 300 ml water. (Maneuver cart in all orientations while doing so, and plug both openings periodically to force all flush water through the other opening). GOAL: Sponge should be completely white, or have only a very mild, light stain. 5. Reverse flow of flush by submerging both openings under water and using syringe as a vacuum. Do this till reverse drawing 60 - 120 ml of water. 6. Use syringe filled with air only, to push all remaining tap water out of reservoir. 7. If hard tap water is a concern, then repeat basic flush using Distilled Water, for 120 ml. EXTRACT WATER & DRY 8. Using syringe filled with air, keep pushing cycles of air through the cart, until water no longer spits out of the large opening. Block the large opening periodically to force air through the top vent. Also, reverse flow of air (using syringe as a vacuum), especially to dry out the vent openings. TARGET: Cartridge weight of 16 to 16.5 grams, or less. 9. Dry the cartridge using "folded airplane" paper towel method, then place over/in a heated area (100 - 110 °) till the cartridge reaches target weight. TARGET: 13.6g or less.
Thank you very much Jose for all the great info you have passed along for the Pro 100 over the years. Because of you, I have replaced my central office printer with Pro 100's (3 of them). Using the refilling skills taught by you and Mike at Precision Color, you saved me thousands of dollars over the past 3 years on lease payments for a central office printer. With three Pro 100 printers in our office space, the staff don't have to walk as far to pick up anything that they printed. We have seen an increase in production due to the fact that the staff are not distracted as much by talking to everybody they see when they had to pick up prints from the single machine. Picking up the Pro 100's when they are on a rebate is a no brainer ! I buy one every time a rebate has come up. The ink from Precision Color is so cost efficient that my cost per print is not even worth worrying about any more. The best part is that with all the Canon photo paper I have received with the rebate offers, I encourage all the staff to print out as many pictures as they want. We have the best gallery of 13" x 19" prints scattered throughout our offices. The staff is even encouraged to print out personal documents and pictures. I calculated that we are doing about 30,000sts per year on each machine. Who ever thought that the Pro 100 was such a beast when it came to document printing. Keep up the good work and never stop educating about the Pro 100 and the CLI 42 carts.
My printer (pro-100) sat for a little over a year. I went ahead and flushed the carts that were in the printer because I wanted to make sure there wasn’t any dry ink in them and most of them had been run completely empty. I’m a little OCD, so I figure if I’m going to mod the carts I might as well flush them. I’m almost to the point of having two full sets of moded and flushed carts. After the printer sat for a year it fired right up. Completed a cleaning cycle, nozzle check, and print head alignment. Taking your advice on printing often and everything else from your cli42/pro-100 playlist. Thanks again for everything you do for the printing Comunity. Jose for the Win!!
Thanks again man....Jose. Using allot of the CLI8 buggers and I have a big art job communing I want to do. Question, I know this is an old thread but maybe you visit it to answer. If not, which of your videos. That being what it the best way to clean'ed up. Syringe in the hole and let it sit? How long, etc. These 8's are getting farther in between, good I've a bunch of fresh that I'll be able to refill. One other think.Using a Canon Pixma Pro9000Mark II and I baby it, dont'really want to be putting no original ink in it really. Had another two Canons 9900 and something else and the Magent ink killed the printhead in both of them,,,,weird. Thought I was using great inks. Would you know anything about this issue and does it still go on. I cannot just replace a $1000 printer anymore. S t a r v I n artist here in my 70s. Thanks JR. Happy turkey day to you and yours.
Hi, Jose :) Great video. I hope you will answer my quick question after all that time since publishing this. Once I remove all carts when one is on low what do I do with them? Do I reset them on a resetter and top them ? Do I flush all of them, reset, dry and then fill them from the beginning? On the cart cleaning video you are mentioning that resetting filled cart can be a messy thing, right? (I am gonna order resetter in next few days so I don't have it in hand yet)
You need to buy the holder I have a link for on my videos. Store then there. Then at your leisure you reset each chips and fill each one to full then wait till you are ready to do a complete exchange! And repeat. Tilt the cart and resetter and it will not leak out.as you reset.
Jose … For those already using two modified sets with PC Inks, do we need to flush (Windex) the old-PC YELLOW cart before refilling with PC42SE YELLOW ? I will be going from PC to PC42SE once I've exhausted my old-PC ink supply.
Likewise, if I ever did decide to refill I'd want to start from fully flushed, totally clean carts. Mixing with the remains of OEM would, in my opinion render my ICC profiles useless. I'd need to create new profiles for all my papers once fully using 3rd party ink 😉
Thanks for letting us know about the purge cycle mitigation!😁
Written Flushing Instructions
Thanks to Joe's tutelage, my foray into refilling my Canon Pro-100 cartridges has been a pleasant success! But when I'm faced with flushing a cartridge a year from now, I don't want to have to look through Joe's videos just to re-learn how to do it! :) (I forget easily). So to that end, I wrote instructions based on my own experience, and would like to share them here.
NOTE that these instructions ARE overkill! But they're meant to be overkill for newbies. Once you're comfortable with what you're doing, you can modify, or even discard portions of these instructions!
*** FLUSHING METHODOLOGY ***
ASSUMPTION: You are flushing a MODIFIED cartridge!
NOTE: If flushing a black or a gray cartridge, you should be able to start at step #2.
FLUSH PREP & INITIAL FLUSH
1. Using a 30ml - 60ml syringe with a properly fitting tip adapter, Inject 60 ml of Windex (with Ammonia) into the cartridge. (Maneuver cart in all orientations while doing so). Rinse any discharged ink from outside of cartridge. Let sit for 30 - 60 mins.
2. Using a 30ml - 60ml syringe (best is 60ml), flush the cartridge with tap water till the Windex and most of - if not all - physical ink is flushed out of the sponge.
3. Evaluate if another soaking with Windex is required (or a first soaking, if skipped Step 1). I.e., is there still stubborn ink, or a prominent ink stain in the sponge? If so, then repeat Steps 1 and 2.
COMPLETE FLUSH
4. Using the same syringe as Step 2, flush with 240 - 300 ml water. (Maneuver cart in all orientations while doing so, and plug both openings periodically to force all flush water through the other opening). GOAL: Sponge should be completely white, or have only a very mild, light stain.
5. Reverse flow of flush by submerging both openings under water and using syringe as a vacuum. Do this till reverse drawing 60 - 120 ml of water.
6. Use syringe filled with air only, to push all remaining tap water out of reservoir.
7. If hard tap water is a concern, then repeat basic flush using Distilled Water, for 120 ml.
EXTRACT WATER & DRY
8. Using syringe filled with air, keep pushing cycles of air through the cart, until water no longer spits out of the large opening. Block the large opening periodically to force air through the top vent. Also, reverse flow of air (using syringe as a vacuum), especially to dry out the vent openings. TARGET: Cartridge weight of 16 to 16.5 grams, or less.
9. Dry the cartridge using "folded airplane" paper towel method, then place over/in a heated area (100 - 110 °) till the cartridge reaches target weight. TARGET: 13.6g or less.
I think you've nailed it. I might have to come to you for cart flushing help.
Thank you very much Jose for all the great info you have passed along for the Pro 100 over the years. Because of you, I have replaced my central office printer with Pro 100's (3 of them). Using the refilling skills taught by you and Mike at Precision Color, you saved me thousands of dollars over the past 3 years on lease payments for a central office printer. With three Pro 100 printers in our office space, the staff don't have to walk as far to pick up anything that they printed. We have seen an increase in production due to the fact that the staff are not distracted as much by talking to everybody they see when they had to pick up prints from the single machine. Picking up the Pro 100's when they are on a rebate is a no brainer ! I buy one every time a rebate has come up. The ink from Precision Color is so cost efficient that my cost per print is not even worth worrying about any more. The best part is that with all the Canon photo paper I have received with the rebate offers, I encourage all the staff to print out as many pictures as they want. We have the best gallery of
13" x 19" prints scattered throughout our offices. The staff is even encouraged to print out personal documents and pictures. I calculated that we are doing about 30,000sts per year on each machine. Who ever thought that the Pro 100 was such a beast when it came to document printing. Keep up the good work and never stop educating about the Pro 100 and the CLI 42 carts.
WOW Sounds like an awesome place!
Cool! Maybe a food dryer to speedup cartridges drying?
My printer (pro-100) sat for a little over a year. I went ahead and flushed the carts that were in the printer because I wanted to make sure there wasn’t any dry ink in them and most of them had been run completely empty. I’m a little OCD, so I figure if I’m going to mod the carts I might as well flush them. I’m almost to the point of having two full sets of moded and flushed carts. After the printer sat for a year it fired right up. Completed a cleaning cycle, nozzle check, and print head alignment. Taking your advice on printing often and everything else from your cli42/pro-100 playlist. Thanks again for everything you do for the printing Comunity. Jose for the Win!!
You are a winner my friend. Great success to you.
Thanks again man....Jose. Using allot of the CLI8 buggers and I have a big art job communing I want to do. Question, I know this is an old thread but maybe you visit it to answer. If not, which of your videos. That being what it the best way to clean'ed up. Syringe in the hole and let it sit? How long, etc. These 8's are getting farther in between, good I've a bunch of fresh that I'll be able to refill. One other think.Using a Canon Pixma Pro9000Mark II and I baby it, dont'really want to be putting no original ink in it really. Had another two Canons 9900 and something else and the Magent ink killed the printhead in both of them,,,,weird. Thought I was using great inks. Would you know anything about this issue and does it still go on. I cannot just replace a $1000 printer anymore. S t a r v I n artist here in my 70s. Thanks JR. Happy turkey day to you and yours.
awesome content
Thank you.
Hi, Jose :) Great video. I hope you will answer my quick question after all that time since publishing this. Once I remove all carts when one is on low what do I do with them? Do I reset them on a resetter and top them ? Do I flush all of them, reset, dry and then fill them from the beginning? On the cart cleaning video you are mentioning that resetting filled cart can be a messy thing, right? (I am gonna order resetter in next few days so I don't have it in hand yet)
You need to buy the holder I have a link for on my videos. Store then there. Then at your leisure you reset each chips and fill each one to full then wait till you are ready to do a complete exchange! And repeat. Tilt the cart and resetter and it will not leak out.as you reset.
@@cheo1949 Thanks :)
Jose … For those already using two modified sets with PC Inks, do we need to flush (Windex) the old-PC YELLOW cart before refilling with PC42SE YELLOW ? I will be going from PC to PC42SE once I've exhausted my old-PC ink supply.
No of course not.
Likewise, if I ever did decide to refill I'd want to start from fully flushed, totally clean carts. Mixing with the remains of OEM would, in my opinion render my ICC profiles useless. I'd need to create new profiles for all my papers once fully using 3rd party ink 😉
Except with PC42SE. These damn inks are almost indistinguishable in output. I will have a great story on the LIVE this Sunday.