 Welcome to BCH Technologies. Today we're going to do a standard drill and refuel for HP 63 cartridges. The HP 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, and 65 cartridges, and all the 21 regular cartridges look like those squares. Those are integrated cartridges, which means the cartridge and the printhead are built into one unit. Once we replace the cartridge, we also replace the printhead. Therefore, the printer itself only serves as a mechanical paper provider, and we'll have a new printhead each time we change the cartridge. If you are new to refuel, please watch the other video I'm going to post a link here about the integrated cartridge. You'll have a better understanding of how refuel works and how to deal with different situations. There are a few necessary things to know before we are starting the refuel process. One is the warning message. The printer will complain about the used or counterfeit cartridge detected. We'll need to click OK to dismiss the warning message. Today we're going to use some cartridges that we bought from eBay. If you go to eBay and search, for example, we search for 62, 3 empty, and then you can see that people sell the empty cartridges for like $1 to $5. So we'll get a pair of those used cartridges. The first thing we do is put it in the printer and make sure it's... We'll put the cartridge into the printer and make sure the cartridge doesn't have any electronic problems. If the yellow hazard light is blinking, then we'll take the cartridge out and use a paper towel to clean the electronic ribbon on the back. After a few tries, if the hazard light is still blinking, then we'll discard this cartridge and get another replacement. OK, our cartridge is working. It just doesn't have any ink in it. For dried cartridges, we'll use a smartphone to zoom in and check its printout. If we do not see any scratches or permanent physical damages, we'll put the cartridge in warm water and soak for 1 or 2 hours. For tough dried inks, we'll use a BCH cleaning solution to soften the clog. The water and the cleaning solution will soften the clog, but it will now remove it. You'll need some action such as sucking or pushing to remove the clog. The cleaning solution can be found at BCH Technologies and under accessories and then go to anti-clogging agent. In this case, we're using triple-action cleaning solutions. We'll show you how to unclog it after we refill it. There's no set of time how long you're going to soak it. I normally do 20 minutes, 20 hours, and you can do more like 2 hours, 3 hours, and you'll probably want to repeat it. For the black, there are five holes hiding behind the label. If we take the label off, you're going to see that we're going to use a toothpick or a needle to run it across the top of the cartridge to determine where those holes are. I'm going to take the label off just for demonstration. Please try to determine the holes without removing the label, as it's much easier to refill. We can see there's a hole here and then there are air channels. What happens is HP do not want to seal the cartridge airtight. They need to let the cartridge breathe when it's working. They have those air channels connected to the hole. Basically, we're just going to poke a hole, refill it, and put another sticky label on the top. You can use any kind of label. You can use packing tapes, you can use clear tapes, whatever you want. The color cartridge also has five holes. The top hole is a collar. Then the two holes on the left hand side is a collar, and then two holes on the right hand is a collar. We don't post the color sequence here because HP is making two versions of cartridges now. Where the magenta and yellow are swapped. So check the color sequence before refilling. Let's take a look inside the cartridge. XL cartridge has a larger sponge that occupies the whole cartridge. However, for non-XL cartridge or startup cartridges, HP builds this little wall and uses a smaller cartridge. Therefore, the sponge size will limit the amount of ink used. We're going to push a needle through the hole and penetrate the sponge. Then pull off a little bit to release a small amount of ink. We'll do it carefully and not penetrating the filter underneath the sponge. So our plan is only, at maximum, only use half of the needle. Our goal is to make the sponge moist. Rather than fill it up with the whole sponge with ink, if the sponge cannot hold the ink, the excessive ink will flow out from the printhead and make a mess. Let me pretend to refill it. So we're going to squeeze seven times. After that, you can see we put enough ink in it, but the sponge is not soaked. You can see the regular version of a color cartridge, those sponges are tiny. So we're going to only do three squeezes on this. So you can see it's not super precise and you might still have some ink left. So you make a judgment whether you want to squeeze three times or four times. Okay, let's work on the real thing. So we'll try to find the middle hole. I cannot find it, so I'm just brute force and peel the label off to see where it is. And I'm going to use half the needle. So I'll maybe put my finger there as a guard and I push in and pull out a little bit and start squeezing. If we overfill, that's okay. We just need to leave the cartridge in the printer for a while and you can see the ink is starting to come out. I'll just add a little bit more. The black is done. We'll do the same thing for the color. So the top is one color and the two on the right is one color and the two on the left is one color. The top one is magenta and the one on the left is yellow. So the one on the right must be sun. And we write the color sequence on a piece of paper. And now remember do not penetrate too deep and only do three squeezes, three to four. Okay, that's three and they are all flowing. Yeah, so we push in then we pull out a bit. So we can, wow, three. So we can release the ink. We just put a piece of clear tape over the hose. So we only cover the top hole, half of the top hole and we leave the bottom two hole open so it will have enough air to breathe. Or if we cover up the whole thing and we want to poke that hole, just make sure it's not airtight. And now we can install the cartridge and then run a cleaning cycle, run one or two cleaning cycles until the cartridge begins to print correctly. If the cartridge is still not printing correctly, the refill process might introduce air bubbles on the bottom cartridge. We can let the cartridge sit overnight and the bubble should be gone. If the clock persists, we can use tools to suck the air bubble or dried ink out. Remember if we have dried ink, we need to soak it in the water or cleaning solutions to soften it. We can use a wet paper towel and a wrap around the cartridge. Then use a vacuum cleaner to suck it underneath. We should repeat it until we see colors coming out of the print line. Another tool we're going to use is called the priming clip. We can get it from bchtechnologies.com under accessories and the priming clips and syringes. You'll get a clip, a black clip and two silicone pads. The shorter one is for the color and the longer one is for the black. The clip is really tight so some people complain that the clip is too small. It's not too small. You just have to set it right and push it hard and here we go. You don't have to have this clip. You can use the vacuum method, but clip is more convenient. When you draw the ink from the bottom it usually feels pretty easy. It's like this one. If you feel it's hard you need to soften the caulk again and just soak it in the water. When you put it in the printer the printer may complains about use cartridge or counterfeit cartridge detected or low ink or ink depleted. You can hit OK or yes to dismiss those warnings and keep printing. The printer will not track the ink levels after refuel so keep an eye on the print quality and if a color is missing or a color is fading refuel it as needed. However, if the error message is cartridge cannot be found or you see the cartridge light the cartridge indicator light is blinking that may be something else. That may be you have ink splashed in the back of the electronic ribbon and you want to take it out, clean it and put it back a couple of times. If there is still no working after a few times probably the cartridge went bad you need to get a new one and just go to eBay and search for new cartridge plus the word empty. To test how many pages a refueled cartridge can print we tested our refueled cartridge once the cartridge is inserted the printer still thinks there's no ink in the color cartridge and only a small amount of ink left for the black cartridge which we discussed earlier we'll just ignore all the low ink warnings and keep using the cartridge. Here's a bonus tip if our printer doesn't print the alignment page correctly we can still use the printer by pressing the scan button a lighter printer to scan a blank page Once the printer is ready we started printing with our refueled cartridge Here's a bonus tip number two you can see we overfilled the magenta so the magenta looked horrible Here's what happened if you have too much magenta the pressure will overpower the other two colors so if you print the magenta will overrun other colors you will be printing in magenta if you let it sit in the printer it's gonna drip magenta and what you do is there are two things you can do one thing is just take the cartridge out and use our vacuum method to suck some ink out by default the magenta will suck out more magenta and you can end up like this so you suck out some sun and yellow but you suck more magenta out or if it's just a small amount you can just keep printing when you print you consume magenta then eventually your ink will be balanced In this case we keep printing let me show you after a couple pages what it looks like you got magenta dripping and then the magenta is overpowering the sun and yellow now you're still gonna strip the magenta coming out then after a couple pages you're gonna see the printout is totally acceptable and after about 10 pages we got a perfect printout and these are the modified refillable cartridges which we modify the sponge size or we remove the sponge and we're gonna test how many pages they can print so right now we only test one that we refill the regular HP63 cartridge we put a green divider for every 50 pages printed finally we got the black color missing so it's time to add black ink let's see how many pages we printed so we got 100 maybe actually not 100 or two pages from 100 so we printed 98 pages don't forget our other videos which you do some modification and you either replace to a larger sponge or you totally remove the sponge and fill the whole thing with ink but you need a pressure regulator to do it and we'll see how to do it in the other videos thank you for watching and I hope you enjoy it thank you bye