Refilling HP type 363 ink cartridges
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I have an HP printer (D6160) which takes type 363 cartridges. And naturally, when one of them ran out, rather than buy a new one, I got out my bottles of ink and syringes, and squirted some more ink into it.
The result was... the printer flashed its lights in a sequence which according to the book of words denotes a buggered cartridge, and returned to the server a status code 1049, which is all very useful except that Google won't tell me what that is. Or for that matter anything interesting about HP type 363 cartridges.
But replacing the cartridge got the thing going again just fine.
So I am wondering: is there some special fragility to these cartridges that makes them easy to bugger when refilling? Is there some special procedure required? Have HP joined Epson in making them so you have to reprogram the chip before you can reuse them but this fact hasn't made Google yet?
My ultimate plan is to connect the cartridges with lengths of plastic tubing directly to the bottles of refill ink, so that (a) I don't have to piss about refilling/changing so often and (b) to see how much ink is left is simply a matter of glancing at an array of clear plastic bottles. But if there is some strange fragility to these cartridges, such a project might be fraught with expensive and messy hidden difficulties.
So... has anyone else got any useful experience of refilling these cartridges?
The result was... the printer flashed its lights in a sequence which according to the book of words denotes a buggered cartridge, and returned to the server a status code 1049, which is all very useful except that Google won't tell me what that is. Or for that matter anything interesting about HP type 363 cartridges.
But replacing the cartridge got the thing going again just fine.
So I am wondering: is there some special fragility to these cartridges that makes them easy to bugger when refilling? Is there some special procedure required? Have HP joined Epson in making them so you have to reprogram the chip before you can reuse them but this fact hasn't made Google yet?
My ultimate plan is to connect the cartridges with lengths of plastic tubing directly to the bottles of refill ink, so that (a) I don't have to piss about refilling/changing so often and (b) to see how much ink is left is simply a matter of glancing at an array of clear plastic bottles. But if there is some strange fragility to these cartridges, such a project might be fraught with expensive and messy hidden difficulties.
So... has anyone else got any useful experience of refilling these cartridges?
Ah, I think I've answered my own question.
The chips on these cartridges do prevent them being refilled, and you can't reprogram them
but you can get cartridges with aftermarket anti-bastard versions of the chip so you can refill them.
And on ebay I find this CISS system - and it's only a few quid more than a full set of original HP cartridges.
The chips on these cartridges do prevent them being refilled, and you can't reprogram them
but you can get cartridges with aftermarket anti-bastard versions of the chip so you can refill them.And on ebay I find this CISS system - and it's only a few quid more than a full set of original HP cartridges.
Yeah, my previous HP printer has multi-colour cartridges with integral printheads and they are a total arse to refill. They don't have chips in, but what happens is that when you refill them a blob of ink drips out of the printhead, spreads to the section of the printhead for the next colour, and capillaries back up the channels for the ink of the other colour. It then takes the printing of several pages of solid colour to purge the ink channels of the mixed-colour ink. Also they seem prone to getting airlocks, 
knows how but it's not uncommon for one or more colours on a newly-refilled cartridge to conk out half way down the page and I have to piss about trying to prime it, which essentially involves going through the entire refill process again.
The 363 cartridges look as if they ought to avoid these problems, because they are just ink tanks which plug into the front of the printer and are connected by long tubes to the actual printheads. But they have chips in...
I have thought about getting a colour laser myself, but though I have never seen the output from one I am given to understand they are more suited to printing advertising-graphics type stuff rather than photographs, which is what I use it for (I have a monochrome laser for text documents).
chips in, but what happens is that when you refill them a blob of ink drips out of the printhead, spreads to the section of the printhead for the next colour, and capillaries back up the channels for the ink of the other colour. It then takes the printing of several pages of solid colour to purge the ink channels of the mixed-colour ink. Also they seem prone to getting airlocks, knows how but it's not uncommon for one or more colours on a newly-refilled cartridge to conk out half way down the page and I have to piss about trying to prime it, which essentially involves going through the entire refill process again.The 363 cartridges look as if they ought to avoid these problems, because they are just ink tanks which plug into the front of the printer and are connected by long tubes to the actual printheads. But they have
chips in...I have thought about getting a colour laser myself, but though I have never seen the output from one I am given to understand they are more suited to printing advertising-graphics type stuff rather than photographs, which is what I use it for (I have a monochrome laser for text documents).
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