 Hey, guys, it's Kevin. Today we're going to talk about how to add a ink tank to Canon printer that has 280 cartridge. So it's a PGI 280, CLI 281. And we're going to use this TS6330 as an example. You'll find a resolver. It looks like this. You'll have a big tank on the side, and the tank will supply the cartridge. So you don't have to replace any cartridges. The reason it's going to work is because 280 cartridges doesn't need to reset a chip. You can see the side and it has a half a tank. And then after you've depleted, it become the cross symbol. You can see the black and the yellow has that cross mark. And then after that, you can turn off the ink monitor. After you turn it off, you can see the IM and PGBK they are grayed out. And when it's grayed out, the printer doesn't track the ink level anymore. So you can just see how much ink left in the external tank rather than to check the ink level. So that's very ideal for a CS. You can see even with the ink monitor turned off, I can print normally. Oh, by the way, you cannot turn it off right now because you haven't printed enough pages. So eventually what you want is something look like this. You see almost all the ink turned off except the BK and the printer still printing. I'm going to put a link to a video above that shows you how to turn off the ink monitor, how to deal with the different errors, and how to refill it. So we don't have to recover. We don't have to cover it again here. And to refill those cartridges are extremely simple. Just flip over and drip ink on it until it's saturated. So why we still want to do a CS? We want to hook up with the ink tank because we don't want to refill this cartridge every 100 pages. We want to refill only probably once every 2,000 pages, or 1,000 pages. Therefore, we don't really need to do a complete CS for every single color. Not every cartridge needs to be hooked up like this. So in this video, I'm going to just do four simple colors. I'm going to do the black, sand. Don't confuse with the photo black, sand, and magenta and yellow, so four colors. So even if you have a five-color printer, you can still only do four colors on this five-color printer. Two, so we don't have a package that has everything, is that you can go to bchtechnologies.com and go to printer modifications, Canon, the whole printer. And find a bracket. For example, this is a five-color bracket for 280 and 281. And if you scroll down, there's a combo suggested thing. So you might want to add the ink to it. And we need to pick up an elbow and a plug set. All printers are white, so we pick up a white tank for color tank. And the important is that we need a priming kit. So without the ink, this is how it looks like. We need a bracket. We need an elbow and a plug. And we need an ink tank. And we need a priming kit. This is what a tank and a bracket look like. And elbow and sleeves. Other than that, you need a flathead screwdriver or a butter knife and some kind of heating source, such as a stove torch. Also, if you don't want to get the ink everywhere, you need a pair of gloves. And another thing very important to have is the protective clips. And for those, go to accessories and go to storage, protective clip. Based on how many cartridges you have, you will want a big one. And also pick up a couple of small ones. When picking them up, make sure that clip is for PGI 280 or CLI 281. To free the printhead, you can turn on the printer, then turn it off when you see the printhead is moving. Or you can just turn this wheel counterclockwise a couple of times. For the cartridge, you can use those refillable cartridges. Or you can just use the OEM cartridge, either startup or Excel or whatever cartridge works. Let's put the silicon pad on the protective clip first. And for the cartridge, put a tab inside the dot hole and then press it down in the front. And let's see it again. And pad, loop, press. For the OEM cartridge, we need to seal the air hole. The air hole is where the air breath when it prints. So it's normally in the middle of the cartridge. And then it has air channel go all the way to the front and form a Y in the front. So we can just peel this label off. And there's another hole on the top. It's the refill hole. That's where the cannon filled the cartridge. And it's normally blocked by a plastic ball. So let's expose that. So we're going to fill one hole and open another hole. So let's use the super glue to glue this whole shot. You can use hot glue or just use your hot iron to heat-shot the hole. You can put some soap water there and then just squeeze the side, make sure there's no air bubbles coming out. That means it's airtight. The refillable cartridge air hole is like this. And we do the same thing. Glue the shot or use heat to shot it. To open the refill hole, you can push the ball in. Or you feel a hand drill or something. And you can drill through it halfway and just poke it out. I don't want to sell you another tool which you already have. So I'll just put a link here in case you need it. Try to put a sleeve in this hole. If you find the hole is not deep enough or you have resistance, just use a pair of scissors, enlarge the hole a little bit. The sleeve should fit into the hole completely. Those small plugs, they are called shipping plugs. When you move the printer, for example, you're going to put it in car or move it around, you plug it. But in the normal operation, do not plug the small plug. The big plug needs to be plugged. The big plug is the refill plug. So we look at the printer and the first tank, the tube is on the bottom. So we're going to mark that tube. Just get a permit marker and mark it. Mark it when it comes out and mark it at the end. We'll use some double-sided tapes to glue the tank on the printer. And we'll put it in the back a little bit. The tube is going to run on top of this bar. So we're going to make a hole on the outside and put a tube in. And we need some double-sided tape to glue the tube on this bar. So roughly divide the printer in the middle. And you'll need to glue all the way to the middle. Move the carriage all the way to the left. Then make sure your tube is tight. But also the printhead has to be able to touch the left side. And mark where you want the tube comes in. So I already marked the first tube. So I know which color is it. And use the bracket as a template and decide how long you want the tube to be. So we'll be sitting on the printer like this. And I only need this much tube. So I cut it and put the eyeball on it. Then we'll do for the other colors. Remember, the second one is empty because we only got four tubes. So we're going to skip the photo black. Now we can fill the first tank. And then put the refill plug back. And then just repeat it and fill all the colors. When you close the tank, make sure you're deep the tank and make all the ink flow to the bottom. And then close it. And here's a little trick. So if you push the sleeve like this, the sleeve will probably going to fall in. And then you had to buy another sleeve. You want to put half of the sleeve on the elbow and then insert it into the cartridge. And now we can take out our priming clips. So I'll put a front inside and then press the back, the tap will lock. And then we can insert a syringe to the hole on the bottom. You can see every time I draw, it just remove air from the cartridge. And you're going to see the ink flow in from the tube and fill the bottom of the cartridge. For the OEM cartridge, you can now see how much ink in the cartridge. So basically, you stop when whatever you draw, it just ink coming out. No more air comes out. For each cartridge, you'll finish priming and put the protective clip back right away. After you finish priming, then you just remove all the protective clips and put the cartridge in the printer. And I like to glue the bracket on the cartridge. So just put a double-sided tape on it and then press the tube in. And then you can power on the printer and take a look. And if you see this air, 5100, about a foreign object, and that because your printer cannot move freely inside the printer. So as I say, it touched the left side, but it cannot go to the right side because here it got stopped. And the reason is that those elbows are too high. And then there's a piece of plastic stopped, stopped it going all the way to the right. Remember, you have four elbows. So make sure each one of them can fit underneath that piece of plastic. It will take some tries and some basic troubleshooting. And then make sure the cartridge can move freely inside the printer. And after that, you can just close the cover and you can start printing. Again, you cannot turn off the chip at any time. So for example, for sign, you have to keep printing and printing and printing until one day you get this error. It gives an OK as an option. So you just press OK. And then you'll see the sign has a red cross next to it. And keep printing and printing and printing. I give you this screen. This error, it doesn't have OK as option. So just press and hold down that orange triangle. Just hold down to it until it disappears and goes back to printing. After the second error, we thought that the OK button. And after you've done that, the ink level will be grid out. And the printer doesn't keep track of ink level anymore. So you just keep an eye on the big tank. Whenever the ink is slow, just add more ink. For the colors that I didn't put the tank on, such as photo black and photo blue, I just review it once a year or once a half a year. Don't care about those colors too much, because mostly I do the office printing with this printer. I hope you enjoyed this video. 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