 Hey guys, Kevin here. Today we're going to talk about if you have EcoTank printer that already has ink in it. How can you convert it to sublimation ink? So you can make yourself a sublimation printer. Let's get started. You'll need a sublimation ink, of course, and you'll need a syringe. I do not recommend those like large syringe with Wins, and then you have the use adapters. Do not use this. Just use a regular syringe and that should work fine. You need a screwdriver. If you have a pigment ink in your printer, I suggest to get a bottle of pigment ink base. Go to your grocery store and get a bottle of distilled water. Not just purified or mineral water. It must say distilled. If you have EcoTank, most likely you have dye ink, so that's not what I'm worried about. What I'm worried about is the pigment ink. Pigment ink doesn't go into the paper. It lay on top of paper. So pigment particles, they design it to attract to each other and form like something like cement and cement it on top of the paper. Dye ink is designed to penetrate the paper. Basically, it's like a salt and everything is totally dissolved. So it's very easy to clean and very easy to get rid of. Versus pigment. You can see the, let's use the red dot as like a pigment. So they try to attract to each other and form a cement and so what you do is you're putting a chemical matrix to let them to push each other away and those particles when in a ink bottle, they are suspended inside of these chemical matrix. However, if you add something to it, you add a dyeing in it. It doesn't have this matrix and those particles attract to each other and therefore it's going to block your printout. Therefore, before you add a dyeing to break this matrix, I suggest just add some clear ink base that has that matrix and just push the particles further apart and flush them out of the system. And this is totally optional. You don't have to do this and you can just put the ink in and see what happens. Most of the time outside like 18-90% of times, the printer was just doing fine because there's not much ink left there. Also, the printer nozzle is about 200 times larger than the particle. So you imagine you have to have at least 200 of them to bundle together to block it. So it's a small chance. If your person now likes small chances, you can just go to bchtechnologies.com and go to Ink for printers and review Ink for Epson and Old Pigment. And you should find a bottle of clear ink base there. There you go. How to tell the ink is a pigment or dye? You can look at it for the color ones. You can look at the yellow color. The dyeing's yellow look like water, yellow water. The pigment yellow look like mac and cheese. Some printers use dye for the colors and use pigment for the black. You can just do a search and look at your ink number and for example 502, just google it, 502 pigment or dye. If you're not sure, like me, bought it from Facebook, you don't know what the previous owner did it to it. What you can do is put a drop in the water and see what the color turns out. If it turns out like purplish and does purplish dye, if you look like a light gray or black and that's pigment. Let's get started. Powerfully print it off and your cartridge will be locked by that white block. See that rod and use your finger push it forward or I call it counterclockwise. You'll see the lock is released. Now remove the screw and take the cover off. If you work with Epson, you'll probably have those really huge syringes with spiral connection to adapter and this is really good at sucking ink out of the cartridges. But for the EcoTank, the adapter is too small. The opening of the adapter is too small. You can see it's hard to suck anything out of it. The best thing actually is just regular syringe with a slid-on connection or just any regular syringe will do the work. I just happen to have a 50 ml and that makes my life a little bit easier. Where to find those syringes? Of course bchtechnologies.com, accessories, syringe and needles. When you suck the ink out, make sure you do it very slowly and because the ink tank is basically is hold by a membrane. You don't want to push it too hard to break that membrane. This is I'm doing it at a regular speed. That's how slow it is. If you still have the original Epson ink bottle, you can just fill the bottle with whatever you want to use to flush it. In this case, we don't know what the previous owner did to the black and we're going to put some pigment ink base to do the first flush and then we draw the ink out. The second flush is just to distill the water. Now we're going to fill up the Epson bottle with sublimation ink and put it in. After that, prime the ink box one more time and make sure the real ink comes out. For the color, it's easily identified as dye ink so we just do one flush with distilled water. Also, if you're tired of waiting for those bottles to empty, what we're doing the shop is we have a piece of tube that's exactly the same diameter and we just squirt a bottle of ink in. Where to find this tube? Of course bchtechnologies.com. Accessories and tubing. Again, if you do this way, do not squeeze too hard and everything inside is membrane so you'll want to do with a limit. Don't forget to prime and do this for the other colors. After turning it on, we hold the stop button for three seconds to light the printer into ink charge mode. This will flush out the ink life inside the printer. Then we'll print some color pages. You'll know the sublimation ink is brown, the black is brown, so you can see there's a steel ink mixture of a real Epson ink and the sublimation ink. So we shall cancel the print and go back to computer, go to find your printer then go to the preferences. Inside the preferences, use the building function to do a head cleaning. After cleaning, there's still a little bit of ink left so what you can do is you can just start using the printer. Set the printing mode to be high so you may still have a little bit of ink showing. If you're not sure if it's clogging or the remaining ink, you can just print another check. If another check looks perfect and that's the remaining ink, it's not a big problem. And just keep doing it until you get this nicely evenly brownish color. I hope you enjoyed this video. Visit us at www.bchtechnologies.com or locally, Greensboro, North Carolina. Cheers! Hey guys, Kevin here. Today we're going to talk about if you have an equal tank printer that already has ink in it, how can you convert it to a sublimation ink so you can make yourself a sublimation printer. Let's get started. You'll need a sublimation ink, of course, and you'll need a syringe.