 Welcome to BCH Technologies. This is Kevin. I know you bought this printer for $29 and I know after you use up the starter ink, you went to Staples and you find out the replacement cartridge is $54.99. Okay, before you get a second mortgage to pay for your printer, okay, let's check out what we can do. We'll show you how to make a mod kit and so you modify the cartridge and make the cartridge refillable so you can print hundreds and hundreds of pages. We also have a detailed block here which shows you the progression of refilling those can cartridges. So you start with refilling the starter cartridge and then when it gets better, you're probably going to work on making a sponge refillable cartridge and then when you get better, you'll do a sponge less so it doesn't have a sponge. It can take 20 mils at one take and then at the ultimate stage that is what we're going to show today is you can do you can hook it up with an ink tank. You can just fill the cartridge with the ink so you'll never need to take the original cartridge out and so you can print thousands of pages. If you print a couple hundred pages a day, you might need an even larger tank like ours and you'll need a longer paper holder. Oh, some Russian money. Okay, to get started you'll go to bchtechnologies.com and though you go to ModKit for Canon and you want to do a configurable do-it-yourself for 2500 series, later on we're going to make some already made units just for people who do not want to do this at home. So follow our website, see when it's available you don't want to do it yourself and you can buy the whole printer that is already modified and we're going to add ink to it so you just take it home and use it. So for now, this video is cover this do-it-yourself kit. Okay, you're going to need the first item no matter what. The cartridge clip assembly is this and we'll have a couple things. We'll have a template and have a binder clip and have a cartridge clip or printout clip and have a tube clip and superglue and elbows and sleeves. That's what was in this first the first ModKit assembly. And then it depends on what you have. You may want a basic four-color tank look like this. Which is 75 mil each color or you want a gigantic four-color tank and the gigantic 500 mil tank look like this. Each tank is 500 mil so we have a 2,000 mils right here. So you want a basic four color that's $10 and if you want if you already have a CS tank so you don't have to buy it but you have to check it. So now for the ink the six-color bottle it has six bottles. Each bottle is 100 mil so you have a 300 black and then you have 100 mil for each color and 500 mil so it's a 500 mil each color so you get four colors. The total is 2,000 mil. Again if you already have ink you don't have to buy it and then if you have for the drill if you have an electric drill that has a three millimeter bit so you don't have to buy it. Otherwise I recommend you have you buy the drill here and the priming clip is this guy. We included this priming clip in the first starter kit EZ30S so if you have EZ30S and you save this kit you don't have to buy it and otherwise you will need this. Other things that we highly suggest it, one is velcro strips that are going to secure your tank to the printer and you buy one a pair of gloves and it's up to you if you have a plier or not or scissors or this tape is not special tape it's just regular deck tape that you use. So you just add what you need here. You just select whatever you need and the final price will be shown here and you tell us how many kit you need. For example I need two of them. If you need one of each different combinations so you add a first one to card then add a second one to card. Okay this will take two days to complete. So we're on day one okay. It will work on both 233 243 244 or 245 246 they are the same or 245 XL 246 XL so so we just pick one one of the 245 one of 244 for the as example okay. In the first day you peel this label off take out the super glue on a color cartridge you can see there are three holes one two three and so you use this pincher pincher hole on the super glue and just give a good amount of glue on the top one. Do not touch the bottom one too. What we want to do is we want to seal that hole airtight. And on the black if you have XL cartridge it's really easy to find this hole but if you have a regular or starter cartridge you have to look carefully it's right here. See that little hole so it's a one two three four five the fifth. So we so when the seal that the little hole there so we just put a drop here. This is hiding there so it didn't go down the bottom so maybe just use something to mix it up make sure it gets gone to the bottom. Okay now we take out the template. On the template there's an arrow so what do we need to do is drill a hole on the door of the printer so we put this arrow towards upper right so and here's this. If you have an electric drill it will be easier but let's do it hand drill just for instruction. Be careful that the drill is really sharp here so I'm just going to use the sharp edges. Okay next we got a plier and what we want to do is we want to remove the central column. Okay next is just make sure those open sometimes this stick clip so this is good this is good so those are tube clips they're going to clip the tube in place so the first one will be I see this label here I'll be right here. Actually the second one should be put on those labels either those QR code or where that another label is because it's really hard to glue it on the printer's plastic which I found out later so the first one is definitely we need to put on that label. So we put a super glue on here glue the first so if the tube goes through here it will have trouble to go through this part so I need to remove that part and I'll just leave the door like this and wait it to dry. For the first day we put a glue on the black and the color and the color cartridges and we drill the opening here and we glue the two tube clips. In the you can see the black is pretty good the color is pretty good but the black I don't really like I don't really like I still can see the air hole so I put a more glue on it so we just put that side and get the other things done before we come back to the cartridge. Okay we're just gonna we're gonna use a standard just basically a tank. We'll get a tank and the first thing you want to do is mark the beginning and end of the tube mark that black and so this is what happens those two cartridges goes into the printer this way okay and this is color this is black and the color sequence is this one it's a sign this one is magenta on the top then this is yellow and then this is black so we want to tank do the same way we want to tank this one be the black and this one's be sign and this one is the magenta and this one is yellow okay I hope it makes sense to you. So mark the beginning and end of the black so this is black okay and when they get out of the tank okay mark the black again and trace all the way to the end and this is the black so whenever I give you a tube you immediately you'll know this is the black and take a look of the cartridge or you'll take a look of the tank so you'll know this is sign this is magenta this is yellow then this is black so you'll never confuse like which color it is okay next one is we're going to measure from the template so we'll measure three full length so this is first one and this is second one and this is third one and then we cut off from here and before we cut it off and we because we were making another another end so we just mark the black before we cut it and then with the black side down here's the black side with the with the black side down and go through the hole immediately and now we want to get those printhead protected so we'll get a piece of regular just text duct tape so right now the sticky part is towards my finger so this is the non-sticky part of this this one the seller is really super nice and already have it protected and this piece is this piece of tape is specially made so this kind of tape you can put a sticky side you should put a sticky side towards the printhead but a regular tape you cannot put a sticky side towards the printhead so I got a non-sticky non-sticky non-sticky side towards the printhead okay now the second piece is the sticky side towards sticky side and then I fold it okay and then the third one I just actually I didn't make this long enough so so what you should do is you'll make it the first you make the first piece longer so it protects the electronic ribbon so the third one is like this you still leave a part of sticky part here so if you don't want it you can fold it so the now the printhead is protected okay let's do do it again with this this black one so non-sticky part down and make the first piece a little bit longer then the sticky part sticky side down and the sticky side down okay now it's drilling time let's get the warm up easy one first we're going to drill through the cyan and the yellow and we later on we're going to do the magenta and the black we saved the hardest to the last so this is cyan and you can see the air hole there I'm just drill right on the air hole some people like to drill upside down so whatever there can fall down it's good idea but it's really there's another filter inside so I'm not really concerned about the debris but it's a good practice though I just a little bit off so then I'm gonna drill another hole at the yellow hole okay now the magenta the magenta is is very important so if you see it this way you can see there's a line here so the further magenta we cannot drill too upfront because they're going to interference with that this tab and you cannot install correctly if if you put a hole here and you cannot pass this line and because this is the wall so if you drill past this and your your color gonna mix up with other other two colors so you have to drill a hole right between this one this one so so this is about the place so I'm more little bit closer and you can see where I drill so I drill right here so it's between the line below the hole every now and then you check the position so you can see I drill I drilled it a little bit off here a little bit off here but here you don't want to make a mistake so now I go through and I'll just do a quick check and you can see there's a part of wall here and it looked pretty good it didn't connect to the to the to whatever below okay now we save the hardest one to the last okay this one the black one here's the whole thick the plate is so so if we drill past here you're gonna drill you're gonna drill into the air and if you drill past here you're gonna end up here so we'll be very precisely drill hole right here this hole is the hardest to drill and going to take you a while and then check the periodically make sure it's within all the boundaries okay also if you drill past the one and get out of from here and you just use a super glue and fix it okay you already see is penetrate the first layer later on you're gonna install the elbow which is this deep so you'll need to be able to the put put you put the elbow in so we need a always still have have some some drill to do it look good on all sides and also deep enough for the elbow okay so next thing is a way install the sleeves you kind of twist it and push it and make sure it's all the way in okay next step we take over template so we already did this so the next step is we measure this long so we're gonna tear them apart and so we're gonna tear the black apart and we cut other three colors to the same length like this and then we just tear them apart just for convenience if you have a different color of a sharpies and you can do this can mark each color so the middle one is magenta so now it's the time we take the tube the tube clip out so with the word BCH facing you and slide in like this push from both side and it clicks okay you can say in perfect word this will this hole should be drill a little bit to the left so I drill a little bit to the right okay and first first color you're going to install is the middle one is the magenta it depends on your skills how far you can push this thing in it's easier if you dip the tip in a boiling water or really hot water it's not too bad if you do a cold one just make sure that you don't bend the elbow you don't really need to get it get up all the way in it's better to get all the way in but if you just like this it's not I mean it's not under the world okay this I know just do this much so first one I'm gonna put in is magenta okay and the second color I'm gonna put in is the cyan or you call it blue and the tube is going to go this way okay so and wrap around and then the elbow is going to plug in here so to install the elbow I need this much space so I'm gonna cut right here let me mark it so here's here's the hole and I probably leave this much for the elbow so I'm gonna cut it right here so I'm gonna leave this one out of the way and in and they installed the elbow inside the hole let me get a little bit of help from a pair of scissors okay so I push the elbow all the way to the bottom and then the magenta goes through this slot and I use my finger to push it in okay and then go through here okay so basically magenta goes goes from the very top of the clip then magenta goes to the very top of this bar and then make the magenta go through here and just let you see the hole the magenta is where and now the second line is a cyan the cyan is the second slot now it's time to do the yellow so the yellow going to use this slot and do like this and here's the hole and I give this much space for the elbow so I'll go to cut right here and use your finger now make sure they got pushed in now the last one is black so you can see we made the magenta a little bit long longer than we want to be but it's okay and now it's the black and the cartridge goes into the printer like this so so you can put it aside and give give it a little bit space like this much okay and here's the hole so I give this much here's the hole and I give this much for the elbow so gonna cut right here just a final look show you how that everything is wired now you need to take this one and the band push in like this and make it go through this hoop okay now you need to take the template out and measure from the beginning of the tube to this length and then just color a band so this is how what is going to install into the printer okay okay and now it's time to get your get your ink tank out so we already marked how we're gonna do it this is a black okay this tank has two chambers so when it's working the air chamber needs to be unplugged if you're not comfortable with having a ink exposed to the open air you can have some air filters like this if you have the one with a case you can just close the case without using the air filters air filter mostly for for the CS doesn't have a case around it so once working supposedly you should the air chamber should have a lower ink level like here and and the the ink chamber should be as high as possible so what do we do is we tilt so you can see the ink flow to the bigger chamber and then here you can see the yellow so a healthy a healthy tank which have the pressure balance should have a lower should have a lower ink level on the in the air chamber and the much higher ink level on the bigger chamber so we just put on put the besides and also when you put it you should put it right beside the printer and do not do not raise it up or put it below the printer and you should put exactly the same level as the printer and now it can bring out the priming clip so for the priming clip the longer one is for the black and the shorter one is for the color so we're going to do a black one first and we remove the tape we do the black one first so make sure you remove the tape completely do not leave a tape on back of the cartridge so we do the black one first we put this on the on the black pad okay and we're going to draw the air upside down because the ink going to come in this way and push all the air out from the top you can see the the black line is full now and we just keep keep going until we see a significant significant amount of ink coming out you can right now right now is more mostly bubbles but now it's all ink so this is good and now we switch the pad to color pad and for the color you we need to make sure that all the ink come come out not just like a some of them okay we got all three inks in the tube now and pay attention to the to the ink color coming out because equally three 33% of each color will make a black so you can see this is a black ink so if you see a green ink that means it's a mixture of the sand and yellow so you know you need us to keep going until the magenta is coming out because the ink coming out is black so we're happy to say this is a properly primed so when you dump the ink out pay attention pay attention to the sound so now I just feel like it's more mostly like a foam so I'm going to draw a little bit more ink just make sure it is enough it does sounds good okay now it's time to install the tube install the cartridge take the old cartridge out and make sure both ribbons are clean and the bottom is clean clean and then you install this way for example if you install like this way the tube will be cropped okay okay because the tube is going to bend this way okay we if we install like this and you can see the tube is going to twist it here so how to correct this is we're going to take the cartridge off I see here so we need that the tube come out with a cyan on top and black on the bottom so we just take this off and then you can just twist it so that's not the science on top and the black is on the bottom now you put it back here so black will be on the bottom remember we made this this band so we just slide in the second one then we tighten it this clip just come loose so we're going to put more glues make sure you push the tube in and close it and I highly recommend you get a piece of a velcro tapes just cut it to half then you can just glue this to the side of the printer okay now it's time to trouble to put it on the troubleshoot it or I need to go any further let me I explain to people who want us how can I reset the printer cartridge chips you cannot reset cartridge chips however what you can do is turn it off turn the ink monitor off when the ink monitor is on it worked this way so if you have a ink that like for example the car ink if I have a have a more than 20% so there's no light so the light is off if you have a ink that's a one talking to English now actually it's how much the printer thinks you have okay when the printer thinks you have less than 20% it's going to have a steady yellow okay steady and no matter what you do you cannot change this it only goes one way it from the full to empty okay however you can turn it off when it's empty and only when it's empty you can turn it off so right now what happened is you have a full tank of ink so you you can see the ink level from here okay so however however the printer thinks you have a full tank of color but less than 20% of black and you just keep printing there's nothing you can do until the black is depleted okay the printer thinks the black is depleted so let's from here we print another check and you can see the printer thinks the color is full and the black is out of ink although we have like a massive amount of black ink in there the printer doesn't know and there's nothing you can do about it okay you're gonna have a low ink warning no matter what you see here just keep it printing oh you can see this printer by just using this pair of refillable cartridges already print like 5300 pages so this is why that the most of people you don't need this you can just get a pair of this and and you can print like a lot lot of pages okay so so let's do couple for troubleshooting and under then we're going to let the printer think the black is random ink and I'll show you how to turn the black ink monitor off okay almost all of your problem will come with the length of the tube okay and you're gonna print and then you're gonna have the hazard light light up when the YouTube is not in the correct length and just pay attention to the printing you do is less into the project less into the printing and this is smooth printing so nothing wrong and nothing you notice that is the tube is kind of in the way so we're going to just put a piece of paper to put it away from the printer another thing I found happened frequently as this the second piece of the clip fall off I found those clip they can glue more securely on the on those on those labels so when I want to glue the on this plastic somehow this plastic it doesn't doesn't stick really well so what I what I'll do is I'll just put a loose and I'm gonna hear the sound so let's say this tube is loose and if we if this a loose you're gonna hear is like a is like a grinding or like a clicking another thing is whether this tube is long enough or too long okay remember let me just mark it again so you have we have a mark here so we know whether it is the position of the tube let's make it a tube really long you can sort like here the tube is grabbing let's make a tube really short we'll make a really short you pull this one down okay you pull we make really very short I put this down if happened the printer is here so we'll so you're gonna see they flash alternatively that means something is stuck inside okay so sometime you'll if we move all the way to here and it's too short and it put this I put this I put this cartridge out and then this cartridge get the stock of it with a bit of it that this wall so the whole thing the whole thing can now move so what you do is you push this up push push this cartridge up back to its position so it doesn't stick to the wall okay and now you can move it out okay here's the here's the here's the place we marked we're gonna put it back and because we'll do a demo here is too too late to glue this we just put a piece of tape temporarily put it here to secure it you can play around like a with a different length of tube almost always when you have a hazard light flashing between the power and the hazard light as the tube get caught somewhere the tube can caught because it's too short or maybe another way to cut it is those tubes remember you use a fingernail push in it pops up and then you got a bar here so when I move here I got caught on this bar okay so what I usually do is here's one thing you can do is push all the way to the left and so YouTube should be a little shorter than this so it's about here I'll try to glue this on top of the the labels just use a piece of tape for now to secure it and let's print the page okay now is it's not a flashing alternatively between the hazard light and the power actually is now it has something to do with black ink so check what it means what you can do is just print a random page to the printer for example I'm gonna print another check okay then we'll tell us what happened okay so this is what I'm talking about okay now the printer thinks the black ink is out so this is your chance to turn this ink monitor off and then you can print forever with a black ink or some people call it reset okay it's not reset it's actually just turn the ink monitor off the ink monitor will turn back automatically when you take the cartridge out and put a new cartridge or you put the same cartridge back the ink monitor will will be active again so for example if you take this black ink out and put it back the ink monitor will be active then you have to turn it off again okay so when the ink monitor is active and you don't have ink in the you're having to be in a tank by the printer thing you don't have it in the tank so what you do is keep this window open okay go to the printers let's hold down the stop button you're gonna see pay attention to to those two lights okay and you're gonna notice that that air window disappeared okay so you can only do this when you say that air window okay when you say that window do not close it just come to the printer and press this stop button so once the ink monitor is turned off it's gonna be it's gonna flash okay there's no way you can fix it or you can just get a piece of tape cover this then I'll fix it of course now the black ink going to print forever without ever bothering you so just pay attention to the level of the ink in the black tank and add ink when needed I feel there's a little bit of knocking sound so I'll just check what happens that the knocking sound is from here which I didn't remove the column completely so it's kind of still scribing here and also I put a piece of tape on top of the the clip so it's got a bit thicker so it wrapped this way so I put a piece of tape here so now it's fixed okay another thing is okay when you actually do printing for example you print it from a regular document for the first time it won't it's gonna ask you this question whether you want to align the align the the print hat or start printing and click start printing I don't know how many people call me and say hey should I what happened to the alignment and should I click start printing and I got so many so many questions just click start printing and use it okay now you can hear it's smooth but the print out is really good you cannot call the CIS until you can print at least 2,000 pages with it okay or for the new CS we just made today let's get let's take a 2,000 pages challenge okay we got 500 pages and another 500 pages this are thousand pages we're going to print our front and back so it's double-sided so we got 2,000 pages here so basically because we're putting double-sided and if we're putting the single-sided this is what look like so going to print it so what I show you how to add ink later mark the ink level before we start it's right on steady and the coloring monitor shows the best and tempest percent again there's nothing you can do and just wait until the air the air window pops up okay we'll just wait okay finally the printing stops in the middle and we get a pop-up window so let's say it was set 1688 the following ink has run out okay you'll be watching this far you know what to do and to now close this window and the coloring is nice and blinky nice let me turn you off okay now it's going to print happily every after you can check how much ink we use no much yellow lots of blacks okay normally you won't add ink we have a half inch of ink left which is about right here okay so we're pretty close to we're pretty close to the time now we need to add ink and this not this is not a regular document that this is this one use a lot of black ink you can see every letter is bold so we'll print a larger scale this this page use like three times more black ink more ink than the regular ink you can see all the other colors are pretty much full because we don't have many pictures here to add in correctly what we what we should do is right now the air is balanced perfectly so we don't want to mess up with any any ink pressure there so we use a binder clip to temporarily shut the ink off then we remove the color that we need to add ink so this is the kit that I use it's KT 600 so it has a three bottles of black normally people use three times more black than other colors unless you print the manual here so we use up one bottle of black then you plug in the the you're plugging the refill hole and then you tilt it the tank towards the bigger tank if you got the ink in the filter don't worry it's okay after it's dry so then don't forget un-unleash un-release this that's all you need to do to add ink I'll put it here so you guys can watch the ink coming down and actually I'll do sideways you can see the ink coming down from here on a small tank then the ink come come down from the bigger tank so we get back to the I hope you enjoyed this video visit us at www.bchtechnologies.com or locally Grisbrough North Carolina thank you cheers