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Flush out ink from ink cartridge
Looking for ideas to speed this up.
For my Canon MG 2220 printer I accidentally... I injected yellow into the hole that is for cyan. And injected cyan into the hole that is for yellow. I sucked all the ink out and am flushing it out with water. Very tedious. Thanks, Andy |
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Flush out ink from ink cartridge
On 04/30/2017 17:07, Andy wrote:
Looking for ideas to speed this up. For my Canon MG 2220 printer I accidentally... I injected yellow into the hole that is for cyan. And injected cyan into the hole that is for yellow. I sucked all the ink out and am flushing it out with water. Very tedious. You might have better luck asking in comp.periphs.printers. Frankly, though, I'd just chalk it up to experience and buy another cartridge. |
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Flush out ink from ink cartridge
Andy wrote:
Looking for ideas to speed this up. For my Canon MG 2220 printer I accidentally... I injected yellow into the hole that is for cyan. And injected cyan into the hole that is for yellow. I sucked all the ink out and am flushing it out with water. Very tedious. Thanks, Andy I'm thinking this will take forever. The cartridge design on inkjets, uses a sponge-like material to "take up space" inside the cartridge. On a closed system, this is for pressure equalization, so the thermal or piezo pumping system (per pinhole), doesn't have to work against back-pressure. When the printer prints, it wants to make a "vacuum" inside the cartridge reservoir. When sponge is used, the sponge expands under the slight vacuum, taking up the space of the displaced fluid, and this prevents too high a vacuum from happening inside the cart. It's also why the cart cannot be filled chock-full, as the amount of sponge and ink is carefully chosen, to give the best vacuum pressure characteristic from (nominally) full to (nominally) empty. The sponge material is so special, they have patents on it. It's not the same sponge you clean the kitchen floor with. The sponge material will likely increase the number of wash cycles needed, to get the cartridge to the point that all it shows is water. There are inkjets with "tank systems", and the physics on those will be slightly different. And maybe, easier to clean. Paul |
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Flush out ink from ink cartridge
On Sunday, April 30, 2017 at 7:36:33 PM UTC-5, Paul wrote:
Andy wrote: Looking for ideas to speed this up. For my Canon MG 2220 printer I accidentally... I injected yellow into the hole that is for cyan. And injected cyan into the hole that is for yellow. I sucked all the ink out and am flushing it out with water. Very tedious. Thanks, Andy I'm thinking this will take forever. The cartridge design on inkjets, uses a sponge-like material to "take up space" inside the cartridge. On a closed system, this is for pressure equalization, so the thermal or piezo pumping system (per pinhole), doesn't have to work against back-pressure. When the printer prints, it wants to make a "vacuum" inside the cartridge reservoir. When sponge is used, the sponge expands under the slight vacuum, taking up the space of the displaced fluid, and this prevents too high a vacuum from happening inside the cart. It's also why the cart cannot be filled chock-full, as the amount of sponge and ink is carefully chosen, to give the best vacuum pressure characteristic from (nominally) full to (nominally) empty. The sponge material is so special, they have patents on it. It's not the same sponge you clean the kitchen floor with. The sponge material will likely increase the number of wash cycles needed, to get the cartridge to the point that all it shows is water. There are inkjets with "tank systems", and the physics on those will be slightly different. And maybe, easier to clean. Paul What I ended up doing was attach a tube to the plunger side of syringe and fed it water from a bucket. It had a high enuf pressure to flush them out. Andy |
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Flush out ink from ink cartridge
On Sunday, April 30, 2017 at 6:47:09 PM UTC-5, none wrote:
On 04/30/2017 17:07, Andy wrote: Looking for ideas to speed this up. For my Canon MG 2220 printer I accidentally... I injected yellow into the hole that is for cyan. And injected cyan into the hole that is for yellow. I sucked all the ink out and am flushing it out with water. Very tedious. You might have better luck asking in comp.periphs.printers. Frankly, though, I'd just chalk it up to experience and buy another cartridge. You were right. After flushing until water came out clear, I refilled with the 2 correct colors. After multiple head cleanings and at least 40 test sheets, I gave up and ordered another Canon color cartridge. I won't make the same mistake again when I refill it. :-) Andy |
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Flush out ink from ink cartridge
On 01/05/2017 03:50, Andy wrote:
I gave up and ordered another Canon color cartridge. You could have tried the blow job technique. Didn't you ask your wife or is she too old for that? Try your daughter if she is good at it. |
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