 Hey guys, it's Kevin. Today we're going to talk about how to refill Kenan's integrated cartridge. We're going to use a PG-260 and CO-261 cartridge as example. It's called integrated because the printhead and the ink tank is built into one unit, so that's the whole cartridge. Basically, if you throw away a cartridge and put a new cartridge in, you get a new printer, basically. Everything, all the quality, everything is controlled by this cartridge. Okay, let's start talking about the anatomy of the cartridge. Kenan makes two kinds of cartridges. One is shorter, one is taller. For the shorter one, you're going to use an EZ30S. S means short. And for the taller one, you're going to use EZ30T. You can see shorter one in the U.S., including 210, 243, 244, 245, 246. For the taller one, you'll have 240, 260, 241, 261. The difference between those two kits is only this clip. Okay, everything else is the same, just as have a shorter clip. For the international buyers, if you have a different model, you know the Kenan uses different models in different sales region. For example, 245 may become 845. So what you do is you can just take a ruler and measure the front of the cartridge. The short one is about 3.5 centimeters. And the tall one is exactly 4 centimeters. No matter what number it is, if the height matches, this kit is no work on yours. Those kits can be found by going to bchtechnorities.com, go to Ink for printers, and refilling for Kenan, ODI ink. And you're going to see the EZ30T and the EZ30S. If you bought other kits, such as the EZ30K SMY or our bulk ink, bottle ink, it's not possible to include all the tools. I think the only other tool you may need is the priming tool. To get the priming tool individually, you can go to accessories and the priming clip and syringes. Again, there's a tall clip, and there's a short clip. On the top of the cartridge, there are two things. One is air hole, one is air channel. Here's the tiny hole. This is the air hole. The ink coming out of cartridge, if you do have an air hole to breathe, there will be a vacuum inside the cartridge. So I will work a couple pages, then I will stop working. You may have some version look like this. The air hole is from the bottom. It's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. It's the fifth on the left. The air hole is right here. This one, I already sealed it, so when we see it, see it. So if you take this kind of air hole, it's right here. The important thing is the air hole. Normally, we pick the air hole to drill to enlarge it so we can put the ink in. So that's also your refill hole. For the colors, later on I'll show you more. They divide into three chambers. Each chamber will have its own air hole. There's nothing really significant about air channel. Basically, when you put a sticker on, you don't block the air in the air hole. So that's why they have those channels. After the refill, you can either just expose the hole, do not seal it. You want to seal it, do not seal the air tight. You can put any kind of sticker on here, and then maybe you'll pinch a little hole. Just make sure you don't block it. Okay, now we turn it to the back. This is 260 cartridge. In the back, you'll get two things. One is electronic ribbon, and another one is the chip. The electronic ribbon, it controls your printhead. To make it simple, the chip serve as an odometer of the cartridge. It count how many pages the cartridge has printed. Basically, it's count how many times the nozzle gets fired. However, just make it simple, just how many pages are printed. And the chip only goes one way, from the full to empty. And you cannot turn it backwards. You cannot turn it from empty to full. Neither the printer or the cartridge have any way to tell actually how much ink is in the cartridge at any moment. So the number you see from the printer is, I'll call the chip level. It's estimate how much ink in the printer. For this example, this is rechipped. It glue another chip on top of the original chip. So the printer read from this new chip. And this is how they manufacture it. Of course, this chip is one way too. So it's sort of take out the old odometer, put a new odometer in. On the bottom, of course, is nozzle. Because you have three colors, so you have three columns. So let's talk about inside. Inside, there are two things. One is the sponge. I told you these are three colors. So each color will have its own chamber. There are two things. One is a sponge. Sponge is where it soak up the ink. The sponge control the ink pressure and the host the ink. So it will not over flooded the nozzles. The difference between Excel and non Excel is non Excel will have a smaller sponge for the black. For the color is the same. For the black, for example, this is non Excel. So we have a smaller sponge. And that's why the cover goes very deep. So they press the sponge down. However, the Excel, this whole part is the sponge. And this is different from model to model. For example, for the 260, the sponge is still small. They just leave this space empty. Refill capacity is totally limited by how big your sponge is. If you fill up this whole empty space with ink, it's not going to work because your sponge cannot hold this much ink. The ink going to flow out. Underneath the sponge, there's a funnel. And on top of the funnel, there's a there's a filter. So the funnel look like this. The funnel is down. So the function for the funnel is it collects the ink from the sponge, provides the nozzle. I'm going to use a brand new Canon PIXMA TS5330, which is a 260 and the CL261 cartridges. And this is a brand new brand new printer and brand new cartridge. I'm going to walk you through with the first refill. I got the printer set up. Now we try to use up the ink come come from the original cartridge. I remember there's a difference of actual ink level inside the cartridge and what's the printer estimated ink level. And I'll call the actual level actual level. I'll call the printer's ink monitor to be a chip ink level because it's estimated from the chip. Manufacturer usually make the chip level a little bit higher than the actual level. So you're going to use up your actual ink before your chip level runs out. So here we got the actual ink runs out. However, if you look the ink monitor, I think the monitor are going to show there's still some some ink left in the black. So that means the chip level is larger than actual level. For the first time when the ink is low, you have to monitor the actually print out periodically. So you can see here. So this page is still good. And this is a little bit faded than this one. So we stop right here. So we stop the third page. So we burn the black cartridge a little bit. I don't think it's going to damage it. So we just stop it on time. So we take our beloved EJ30T and we have a drill, black clip, two pads. The longer one is for black and the shorter one is for color. So we'll put the longer one first. You can either use a knife to peel off this label or you can just drill through the cover through the label. It's up to you. Underneath this label, this is the air hole. You can drill anywhere and you can drill here, here, here, here, here, here, anywhere. But I usually just drill through the air hole. Some people like to drill it upside down. So everything is going to fall down rather than get into the cartridge. So for this shooting this video, I'll just drill the sideway. And now we're going to add ink into it. The question is over is how much ink you want to add to it. Most time I suggest people add less than more. Let me draw the plan. What are we going to do? Here's your cartridge and here's the nozzle. The cartridge is going to drop ink. Here's the, and back here is the electronic ribbon where the printer has contact with. Okay. And underneath this cover, here's a funnel. And the funnel is going to have ink to collect the ink from the top. Then the funnel will be filled with ink. And above that is a sponge. And the sponge is going to hold the ink. And then this funnel is going to suck ink into the printhead. If you add too much ink, and on top there's some magic, if you add the ink more than the sponge, just by gravity, the ink is going to leak out. So that's why you should add the ink in the sponge. That's why you shouldn't add too much ink. However, it's not, it's not that critical. If you add too much, the ink is going to leak out. It's going to automatically balance. So you just whisk a little bit of ink. That's fine. It's not a big problem. Okay. The big problem is this. So let's say this funnel is always filled with ink, and which supplies to the nozzle. However, if you use up all the ink in the funnel, okay, the ink, the funnel right now is full of air. Then you'll add ink to the, to the sponge above. This funnel is still empty. So you cannot print it out. So that's why our plan one is adding enough ink to, to saturate this sponge, then we suck underneath a little bit, we suck ink to fill this funnel. Okay. So that's the first step. We add the ink. Make sure you have a paper underneath. You can poke the sponge a little bit, and then score some ink. Sponge will suck it in. Later on, we're going to use a priming clip to suck it in to the filter. So, so normally you add like maybe 10 to 15 squeezes. And now what we're going to do is a second step. We're going to put this clip on. And lots of people complain that the clip is too short. It's not too short. Just line it in the middle and push down and forward. Okay. It's hard to put it on because it has to be tight. Now we'll get a syringe and point it down because we want to draw the ink into this funnel. If you feel it's too easy, that's because you don't have good seal here. What you do is it's sort of like you'll see your finger as a lever. So you push it this one down. If you see you only draw the air, you might just take it out and restart. Just make sure everything is lined up. And the front, I'll be to the front and press it down and press it hard. So the front has to drop down and the whole thing should line up. So you may have a little bit of seam here. So you need to use your finger to press it down and draw. So we put the cartridge in. Then we go to device printers and printing preference. And we're going to do another check. Pretty good. So back to our odometer. We're just adding ink. So we know the black cartridge is full of ink. So the actual ink level is full. However, we're still going to show low ink on the ink monitor. You cannot turn back your odometer. And however you can turn it off, you cannot turn off at any time. You have to wait until it runs to zero. So right now we're just ignoring the black ink is low and we'll just keep using it. Many people confused at the other ink and say the ink level is low and the print quality is not as undesirable. The print quality is bad or you get a blank page is because it did not prime the cartridge. It's not because the ink level. The ink level is totally irrelevant to what you're doing now. So we just keep using the printer and wait for that magic moment that we can turn off the odometer. Keep an eye on the colors because you haven't refilled the color cartridge yet. Your actual ink level in the cartridge, in the color cartridge may be low. The black odometer is about to run out now. Okay, now we run over the limit on the black. So the black odometer is out. So the following has run out. Now you can see the black from trying to make a quick exclamation mark to a question mark. Okay, actually if you really cannot tell you what to do, you want to continue printing press the stop button for at least five seconds. So what you'll actually do is keep this window open. Okay, keep open don't close it and come up here and hold the stop button. Hold it for five seconds and you can see it went back to printing. So what you have done is you'll turn off the ink monitor for the black cartridge. Now the printer will not monitor how much ink level in the black anymore. So you can basically you can print forever. And if you see the screen, the black is totally white out. Okay, this is what exactly like what I expected. So the actual ink, the actual ink in the cartridge was out about 200 pages. Then the Canon's odometer, the chip was out about 270 pages. Now here I make it 250 just be conservative. So it always better to keep the the cartridge wet. So now I'm a little bit worried about the color because the actual ink level in the color is low. So I don't want to wait the color be actually out. So I'm gonna go refill right now. Okay, another advantage of refilling refilled early is if it's still printing guess what the chamber is full of ink. So I probably won't need to prime it. Yeah, I'm going to just take out over below the EC-32. The color one has three colors. Then each region will have air hole just like the black one here one here and one here. Therefore it's not like a black. Black it can drill anywhere for the color. You have I normally just drill right on the air hole. This is why you have a toothpick, magenta, the cyan and just feel like how deep you put in there until you touch the sponge. So here is this deep. Therefore the sponge is little. I'll just draw five squeezes of magenta because this is not the XL model. XL model you can add more ink. But here I'm going to just have five drops. One, two, three, four, five. That's it. How to prime it. So we take the black pad off, put the color pad on. Again, this is tight. Push down and push forward. Okay, so let's say this one is completed inside now. And now we draw some ink. I'm going to draw a little bit. Okay, if you bought a bog ink, you don't have this priming tool. What you can do is you wrap around, you take a paper towel and wrap around the cartridge. You take a vacuum hose from your house vacuum. Just suck it. So you can suck the ink into the funnel. If you say the ink is leaking after refilled, that's because you feel too much. If you feel too much, don't worry. Just leave it in overnight and the excessive ink is going to run out. And you're going to have a pretty balanced cartridge. So right now we just draw more pages until the color ink level monitor or automator runs out so we can turn it off. Okay, 589 pages. Then you get this one. Okay, and remember what to do. Do we close this window? No, do not close this window. Come back here and find that red button. Just click on it and hold for 5 seconds. And you're going to see that window disappear when you're holding the, see, that disappeared. You hear a click. The printer is back to work. And now if you see the acetame ink levels, both of them are blank now. So I will not keep tracking of the ink level. So you and your printer will happily ever after after this. So you might wonder like how I'm going to keep track of the actual ink levels. The best way to track it actually is having a scale. You can form your local dealer. And those probably sell for like 10-15 bucks on eBay. And you'll refill your printer, you'll refill cartridge and do not wait right after refill. Put it in your printer, set it overnight. The second day, that's exactly the full and balanced cartridge. So the color you can put it on. So for example, this one is 51 grams. And this one is half full. So I haven't refilled yet. It's half full. And this one is 36. If I wait it, I'm going to refill it and wait it tomorrow. So in that way, you know exactly how much ink is in there. The second way is kind of easy. So you'll take a rim of paper. Each refill you can print about half, the half rim of black. So you just take a rim and separate two half. So whenever you finish that half, you refill black. And when you finish the whole stack or every two half stacks, you refill color. And the third one, of course, you can refill regularly. You can refill every week or every two weeks. Just put a couple drops in it. And the fourth way is just keep an eye on the printout. If you see the printout is faded and just add ink. For some earlier printer models, they have those ink lights. When the estimated ink level or the chip ink level is full or more than 80 percent, the light is off. So when it thinks the ink is low, the light becomes amber by the steady. And when you turn it off, when you turn the ink monitor off or the automator off, this light will be blinking yellow. And those lights have nothing to do with how you print. Remember, you have problem with the printing. It's blank, it's draped, go primate. And I just don't pay any attention to those lights. Okay, I think that's all you have. Oh, yeah, one more thing. If you have this hazard light and this, for example, the color light, the coloring light, they light up together. That means the printer cannot detect your cartridge. If you remember what I mentioned earlier, that's because you have a dirt or you have spilled ink on back of your ribbon. And you go clean it and put it back and do it a couple of times. If it doesn't work, and then you have to throw your cartridge away because it's gone bad. I hope you enjoyed this review. Remember, every day, we threw a million cartridges into the landfill. And you can stop this. You can refill cartridge at least five times, at least, at least. I mean, just for starters, you can do that. Okay, take your tools and save the earth. Peace.