 Welcome to BCH Technologies. This is Kevin. Today we'll uncover how to refill HP's black cartridge or color cartridge look like this. You'll probably have a little plotter look like this, or maybe you have those really old desktops like this. However, if you also like special cartridges like this one and your production system look like this and do not refill it yourself. This video is not for those folks who do the industrial printing. It's not because we cannot refill those cartridges. It is because logistically, it's very hard for you to refill it. Firstly, the HP makes three grades of cartridges. Most home use cartridges look like this, 45 home use. I don't know how HP makes this. This is really easy to broken. You'll probably refill it just a couple times, not much. Also, HP makes the industrial grade like this guy. Those are really well made and you can refill many times. If you just decide to refill yourself, you don't know where to get those really nice cartridges. You have to end up with buying the HP original industrial cartridge anyway. Secondly, it's very hard for you to actually train an employee and get everything dirty. You have to air balance after your refill and test it. Eventually, people just give up and say, hey, for my factory, it's not logistically, it's not really profitable for me to allocate my employees' time on this. For those folks, the third thing is the ink. When you refill those cartridges, they have special ink in there. For example, this is a fast dry and works on the glossy coatings. HP also makes 45 SI, which is solvent ink, which works on the different non-porous substrates. For BCH, we not only make two different kinds. Right now, we make about five different kinds of ink work for this. If you refill yourself, you're probably going to put the wrong ink into your machine. That's why for the industrial level, we encourage people to contact us. We're going to get a couple of paper samples from you. We're going to look at your machine and we decide what kind of ink is the best ink. We can let you send an empty cartridge to us and we refill it and send it back to you. For this one, we're going to focus on one or two cartridges and we want to refill it. Normally, we sell this little kit with pigment in it. If you want dye ink, I have to show you another way to do the dyeing. Let's show you what we're talking about, the different grades of cartridges. This is a regular home use cartridge, HP45. This one is empty and this one is full. Both of these are the lowest grade that HP made and they break pretty easily. Then we have this industrial level. You can see this one is totally different from those two. Actually, HP has a even better one than the industrial level. This one looks like an industrial printhead. This one you got from third-party cartridges. They look exactly the same. This one I tell you is a non-OEM. Let me put a non-HP on the right-hand side. This is a real HP industrial level. When you flip it over, you can see this cartridge actually is a home use cartridge. The same as the crappy stuff HP made here. What happened is the refillers bought a regular home use cartridge and they filled it up and they sell it as industrial ink. Just to make you aware that at the factory level, you don't want to end up with this guy. That's enough for the industrial printhead. This is the home section. We have this one full with the ink. You can see this cartridge has a little bit of dripping problem here. The line is a little bit uneven here. Don't surprise by the poor quality. This is a 300 DPI to 600 DPI machine. It's pretty normal. If your ink can print out those machines nicely, you'll get really good ink. Also, this is the lowest HP ink. HP actually makes three different kinds of ink for this. This is HP OEN. We're going to mark this as a full. Now we put the empty cartridge in. This is completely empty. We have two kits. One is pigment, one is dye. The only difference is the two bottle of ink. You can get a kit from bchtechnologies.com. Let's go to Refill Kit for HP. They'll screw down and click 45. That's this kit. The pigment will tell you it's pigment ink. The dye ink will not tell you anything. This part is the same. You have an air balance clip. You have a little drill. You have one green plug. In the future, or you don't want to buy this ink, you just want the accessories. The green plug can be found at accessories. You click plug and the green plug is right here. If you need the air balancing clip, you just go to accessories and go to priming clip. It is this priming clip. It's not including the kit, but I highly recommend it. I got a larger size of syringe. Here I used 10mm, 15mm is even better. It just makes your life easier. I got a bottle of distilled water. One gallon is only like 80 cents. It doesn't have a lot of container. What I'm going to do is I'm going to fill it up with pigment ink first. This comes with the pigment kit. We printed a couple of samples then we switched to dye ink. Let you see the difference. Here is where HP refills holes. HP fills up the bag inside. There's aluminum bag inside. They fill it up and then they put a little steel ball here. What we're going to do is we're going to push the steel ball inside. Then we're going to remove old ink as much as possible. Then we put a new ink in. Then we seal this hole. We still have air here because it's a bag. We're going to seal this. Then we're going to remove the air from the printhead. Let's remove the ball first. This is just a sticker. It covers the ball. You don't really need a drill to do this. You can use anything that can just poke it in. HP really has some balls. There we go. Go inside. There we go. Now the ball is inside. We're going to pour some steel water. By the way, you won't do this whenever you change the ink type or you change your ink supplier. If you keep on using the same ink and you don't need to wash the old ink out, you can just add the new ink in directly. Now we're going to put a plug on. When you put a plug, this is now sealed. You'll see a thumb kind of twisted. It's still not sealed. You can see it there. That's good. What we do is we draw the ink from the top. Another ink, we draw the water out from the top. Here's the clip. You put this in and there's a groove here. And you just push forward. You can use the original, the one-convict kit. The one-convict kit is only five mil. If it doesn't come out and I try to recede it a couple of times until you get it right. I'm going to use 10 mil for a better suction. This has been drawn for a long time. If you cannot get the ink out at all, try to put them in a cleaning solution or water. Just soak them for a couple of hours. What happened is for the silicone pad, there are two columns of silicone pad and then they're connected in the middle. Then there's a little hole here where you get air suction out. If your syringe didn't get deep enough, this hole will not open. So it's not going to suck. Or if you didn't line up correctly, if you see carefully, there are two rows of printhead. You either didn't line up correctly or this is heavily clogged. So there's no ink coming out. It could be both because this one is really, really dry. You can see it started going. It was dry so it was clogged. Then after a couple of tries, the ink started coming out. You can see it's normal. This is the first one coming out. It's the air and then you get more and more ink. Most people give up when they cannot draw air out. You just need to try a couple of times. You can hear the foil back collapse. That means we don't have any more water inside. Just one more. Okay, now we can add the refilling in. Oh, to wipe or not to wipe. I'm a wiper. So some people said dab it. I just like it. Mmm, look good. Whatever, I did thousands of this. I've never seen that wiping card, the printhead. I know there's a big controversy but I'm the wiper. So my biggest complaint is when you take the cap off, some ink will come out. So when you take it off, be careful. Be careful. If you're going to get the plug, stay inside like this. Just use a piece of duct tape and push it in. Then when you draw the air out, the dip thing is going to suck it in. We're going to do the same thing until a significant amount of ink coming out. You can see it's all air and a little bit more bubbles. Still air. It's not lined up correctly. I don't feel any resistance. So I just twist a little bit to make sure it gets good contact. Now you can see that it's mostly air bubbles. The next one will be ready. Now mostly it's ink now. So now this one is ready. Wiper alert. There's some problem here but it's not related to the ink. You can see the printhead is clogged. This is a very old printhead so we got a lot of problems to unclog it first. So I'm not surprised. I just want to say the line is pretty straight here. So compared to HP's intermobile, the blackness and the straight of line is pretty similar. So we can compare on the same cartridge. Right now we compare a brand new HP cartridge versus one that's already dried. So basically this is how you refill it. So if you get a couple of them, you want to just refill them together and then store it. We have two kinds of clips. One is heavy duty full clip. So it's the same length, some height as the cartridge. You don't want to directly just put it on it. So you can see underneath there's a foam pad and if you directly put on it, the foam pad is porous. So the ink will still get absorbed and you'll still get a dry cartridge. One thing I use is a professional blue tape and this is special tape and this is like $20. So it's pretty expensive tape. It's quite expensive. This probably lasts a lifetime. So for the professional tape, what you want to do is the sticky part towards the printhead. And the non-sticky part is towards the outside. And then you put it on the cartridge under the clip. And another one is the half clip. And this one also have a foam pad underneath. And here's two tabs to clip on here. So the foam pad is going to push the printhead upwards. So make sure it's sealed. And then this part is protecting the ribbon here. So if you don't have blue tape at home, you can just use regular desktop tape. However, if you use regular tape, this glue is not special glue. So you cannot put this glue on the printhead. So you reverse, you put the non-sticky part towards the printhead. So what I'll do is I put in here and push in. And you can see the foam pad is pushed and sealed the printhead. And there's also two tabs. Make sure it's secure on the side. And then as a paranoid person as I am, so what I usually do is I push this back. And I just make sure they didn't get pushed down and they're sealed. You can get those storage clips by going to the accessories. And go to storage protection clip. And here's the heavy-duty black clip. And here's the light-duty short orange clip. So let's change this ink to dye ink. We just use a regular BCH dye ink. BCH dye ink is compatible to all printers or models. And there's no way you can go wrong with dye ink. Not bad, huh? Let's do a compare. So those two are printed from the same cartridge. And let's see the line. You can see this cartridge really have problem here, here with the pigment ink. And it's all straight and smooth for the dye ink. Okay. Okay, just compare the pigment dye for the HP45. I think it looks similar. One thing is when the pigment dries, the pigment stays on the top of the page. And the dye will penetrate the paper. So the dye goes deeper. And all the dye ink anti-scratching. So if you just rub it, nothing gonna come off. And the pigment on the other hand, if it is this kind of porous paper, there's no problem. Scratching is not a problem. But if you have any kind of coated paper, it could be a problem. So you have to contact us and send out some paper samples. And we have anti-operation fast dry pigment ink that you can use. And the other thing is, so you can see if you only lay on the top, the line seems to be separate. Okay. But here in the dye ink, so the line is kind of spread out a little bit. Because when the dye ink penetrates, it's not only penetrates vertically, it also penetrates horizontally. That's why you have this. Another thing is the bleeding, okay. That's not much. The bleeding is if you're putting a double-sided paper on the back side, you can see I used a permanent marker. So once that pigment is already penetrated next to the other side. On the back side, the concern is because the dye ink is penetrating. So on the back side, and if you put a double-sided pages, you're going to have a loss ink go to the second page. Actually, if you use regular papers, there's no concern. I mean, it's not that there's no concern. It's both equally penetrating. So there's no much difference if you just use regular paper. Okay. And the third difference is the pigment is weatherproof. So if you print outdoor banners and use pigment ink, if you just go to use indoors, you use dye ink. And another thing is the dye, by itself, is dye. So when you get the wet, it's going to run. But it's not an underword. And if you accidentally get a document, you accidentally pour coffee on it. And actually, it's not a big problem. So let's get them wet. You can actually see actually the magic marker runs more than your dye ink. You can see the dye starts running. By the way, we're using Windex. You can see the pigment is still pretty clear, the dye ink, and it runs a bit. So if you pour coffee, you just wipe it up and clean it. And you still can see the letters. It's not like when you get wet, you can get like a blank sheet of paper. Okay, we're just going to hand them to dry. Okay, all pages are almost dry. Basically, for the pigment ink, there's no running of colors at all. And for the dye ink, it's not that horrible. I mean, every letter, everything is still pretty clear. And so if I'm actually the sharpie, the sharpie runs a lot more than dye ink. So basically, pigment ink and dye ink is not that much different. All I can say is whether I use it indoors or outdoors. And even for outdoors, the dye ink will not be that bad. I mean, eventually it's going to fade, but it's not going to fade like to a blank page of paper. So it's up to you, whatever you want to use. Oh, by the way, supposedly the pigment ink lasts a lot longer. It's like 120 years and the dye ink lasts like 40 to 80 years. But I hope I can live to see this page fade. Another thing is if you know the iris printer that all the museum used to reproduce their artworks, those are printed on dye ink. So if the museum is not concerned, then why should I be concerned? And if I can use a sharpie, why don't you use dye? So it's up to you.