 Welcome to BCH Technologies. This is Kevin. Today, we're going to work on Epson Artition 1430. We're going to refilled original cartridges, and then we're going to replace them with a refillable non-OEM cartridges. We're going to talk about why would we keep using the original OEM cartridges and why we want to switch to non-OEM cartridges. This model 1430 is very versatile and can be used with a dye ink, pigment ink, and sublimation ink. It's very popular among professional studios and printing companies. If you use this printer a lot, you'll know it clocks a lot, so today we're going to cover some basic unclogging techniques too. At BCH, we unclog and fix the printer for free, so if you live in an area that's close to us, you're welcome to stop by and drop your printer here. This printer uses original Epson ink. It starts printing blank pages, so it sounds like it needs a ink and maybe some unclogging. Although the ink monitor shows some ink left, the cartridges feel very light and don't seem to have any ink. Epson's ink monitor actually doesn't know how much ink in the cartridge. It is simply a counter which counts how many pages printed. For example, if the counter is zero, then it thinks you'll never use the cartridge and shows a full tank of ink. We're going to use a standard six-color ink, available at bchtechnologies.com, and go to Refill Ink and Refill Ink for Epson, and just click six colors. The package comes with a small pen drill, but I recommend to have an electric drill or something similar. I also recommend some plugs and some priming tips, but it's not really critical. We're going to cover it later. The reason that we want to use OEM cartridges is this part. It is a one-way damper which regulates ink to flow one way from the cartridge to the printhead. This part reduces the chance of ink backflow and clogging. We're going to use a drill to drill through the two layers of plastics and put the ink into the ink tank. Of course, we should avoid drilling through the circular one-way damper. This shows how deep we drilled and where we drilled. Now we will add a fair amount of ink into the cartridge. If the ink is overflowing, we should stop right away. We can seal the hole with a piece of clear tape. Here's an optional step. If the cartridge's one-way damper is full of air, which means we used the last bit of ink, we can use a priming tip to remove air from the one-way damper. It'll give the printer some help to start printing. Because we're not supposed to run the cartridge to completely dry, so this step might not be necessary. Next, we need to reset the page number to zero. You can go to bch technologies and go to accessories and the resetter for cartridge. Don't select for waste tank. Select the cartridge and make sure the model number is right. And this one we use a ep0. For the resetter, it doesn't work if you have really low ink, which means less than 15%. You might have found that the resetter has a different number of pins than the cartridge. That's not a problem. As long as you line up the top pins, the bottom pin doesn't need that many number of pins. And this one, say, we push many times and it's still going red. If we check out what we found earlier is the two colors. One is a sun, one is a light magenta. Those two have a triangle on it. That means really low ink. It's less than 15%. One is less than 15%. You have a good chance that the chip will not reset. So the only thing you can do is throw it in the trash can. Okay, let's try one without the yellow triangle. So this is magenta and you can say we line up. And it's red as our first try. Then we try to line up again and push. Now it's green. And we gave a sign, another chance. So the best time is before you get the low ink warning to refill it. So science is in the trash can and we reset magenta. Now it's the light magenta. So we'll give a trash can treatment again. The right three colors should be straightforward. So we still have two cartridges in the trash can. So we're going to replace it with BCH refillable cartridges. We can get it from cartridges and for Epson refillable. Then we'll select T79. It has two holes. In the back is the air hole, which I put a color plug in there. I put a color plug just because you have to remove it. When the printer is working, this hole must be open. The next hole is in the middle is the refill hole. That's where we're going to add ink in. The two holes are connected. So if you're adding the ink from the wrong hole, it won't damage the printer or won't damage the cartridge. The only thing is you'll just do it in a harder way. So we use the color plug to seal the refill hole this time. We put the color plug in the air hole for the first time. It just forces you to remove it before you use it. Here's the optional step that we prime the cartridge by sucking the air out of the bottom of the cartridge. You can see we can add a lot more inks in the refillable cartridge. It's like 2.3 to 2.5 times of the original cartridge. How about that? We're going to do two cleanings then with two hours and then do another two cleanings. You can see the black is a little bit clogged. We'll do some basic unclogging. We're going to use a tool from accessories and priming cliff syringe. There's nothing special about it. It's just a syringe and a tube. However, the tube was tested to make a really, really tight fit with your printhead, which is really important. And then the cleaning solution we use accessories and anti-clogging agent and we use this triple action cleaning solutions, which is green color. We filled about five mils of our cleaning solution. We need to be able to move the cartridge freely. So we press the ink button as soon as the cartridge moves to the underside. We cut the power off. Then we fold the paper towel and put it on the bottom and then move the cartridge to the middle. The tube is designed to be a tight fit to the ink intake and make sure that you press at least three-quarters way in and make sure that it actually actually has a tight fit with the ink intake. Now you can squeeze the syringe and do not press too hard. I mean, if you have presses really, really hard, that's another problem. You don't want to burst the printhead. So gradually, smoothly, press the ink in and do not forget to remove the paper. Don't get scared by the first printhead and do two cleanings with two hours, then do two more. The black is fixed. Here's the Colorado quandary peak. I got three stitches on my arm for this and you can see the view is totally worth it. Okay, let's talk about when to refill the cartridges. If you have an app's OEM cartridge and a user's data and you already see it, you should fill whenever you get this error message or not error message. This warning comes up, so it's almost time to refill. You take it out, reset it and refill it because you cannot see how much ink in the cartridge. Do not let your printer tell you when to refill. However, if you have a refillable cartridge and the first thing to do is do not enable auto update and do not install any update. Secondly, the refillable cartridge is equipped with an ARC chip. ARC means auto reset. It only resets when it reaches a page number, a particular page number. So if absent display is almost time to replace the ink or the ink is low, those kind of warnings you will have to ignore it. Keep printing until you see this. Ink cartridge cannot be read. If you don't get this, just keep using the printer. So we have a black and we have a light magenta that is reset. So what happens is your black ink is already reset, have a full tank of ink. But the printer cannot figure out why you have a full tank but you haven't taken the cartridge out yet. So what we're going to do is we take the blackout and fill it with the ink and put it back and the printer will be heavy. Make sure we'll do this. Use the printer's replaced cartridge function. Some people just cut the power off and replace the cartridge. That's not right way to do it. If you cut the power out and replace the cartridge, the printer doesn't know that you replaced the cartridge. So here you can see I fill up all the cartridges and what happened. So we restart printer and you can see the black is full and the other is still low although we already add ink to it and it will still be low. So for the refillable cartridges, just keep using it until the printer stops you and then fill it up and then put it back and that's it. I hope you enjoyed this video. 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