 Hey guys, yeah, pretty busy lately. This coronavirus just going crazy. I didn't have the virus, but it seems everybody is ordering the cartridges. Today, I'm going to just do a really simple drill and refill two cartridges. I bought those from eBay. You can just go to eBay, search for 245 MT or 246 MT. And you can also search for 243 MT on 244. 244 is the color, 243 is the black. They're exactly the same cartridge, except that initially, Ken didn't put the last ink in it. So basically, they're the same cartridge. So I got those from eBay. I don't know their history. They may be bad or they may be good. What I did first is I put a white paper towel and put the cartridge on it. And then I put the cover on. I just leave it that way because I have so many to do. So whenever I need one, I just pull out one, and they always wet. OK, after I go through how to refill them, I'll take a couple of questions. So right now, let's go just go ahead and refill them. First thing we need to do is we need to drill a hole. I'm using an XL version. XL version, you have a larger sponge. So it will look a little differently than your starter cartridge. The black will look different than yours. See, the black is totally flat. OK, give me a second. Let me go find the regular version of the black. Actually, I cannot find one when I need it. Basically, the starter one have a loss of what I call it. So like a box is in here. The first question is, where can you drill the hole? You can drill the hole anywhere on this cover as long as you get the opening. So if you get a regular, I normally just count the boxes. I count to five, then I drill from here. Basically, you can drill from here, here, here, here, here, anywhere, OK? And for the color, it's different. If I peel the color off, you can see there are three tiny little holes here. One, two, three, OK? You're going to drill on those three holes. One, two, three. OK, let's go drill them. And I do the black first. Black I can't drill anywhere. So I just drill like a cover right in the middle. Look good? OK, I'm going to drill the color one. OK? One, two, and three. OK, now I'm going to fill them with ink. So basically under the cover, there's a big sponge. All you need to do is get a sponge white. So I'm kind of pushing down, then draw the back a little bit. So I start to squeeze slowly. Make sure I got this. You're kind of dropping ink on the sponge. You're not like really injecting or anything. You can push the sponge down a little bit. Either way, you just want to work it white. And then the color. The top one is magenta, you may call it red. You can sort of see the color from here. If you have a toothpick, you can just poke the toothpick in and see which color it is. Normally, you'll squeeze like five to seven times and that'll be enough. And then on the left is the cyan, I would call it blue. I normally don't need to put so much ink in it. And today, because I make it for a customer, I just want to make sure that I get enough ink to prime. Also, this is the first time that I refilled this dry cartridge. So I want to put a little bit more ink than usual. The next thing is to prime. If you don't have a priming kit, what you can do is you can use a paper towel to wrap around the cartridge and then you use a hose vacuum to suck underneath. But if you bought a first timer kit, it'll come with a two-second pad and a black clip. So you put this is the longer one is for the black. And this shorter is for the color. So I do the black first. And it's a really good sign that you can see the ink coming down smoothly. Normally, you don't need to prime this much. But today, because this is the cartridge I bought from eBay, I want the first time, I want to make sure that all the nozzles are open. So that's why I draw this much ink. Now I prime the color. When you prime the color correctly, you're going to see the ink is black because you've got all three colors. When they combine together, it's black. If you've got a green ink, then your red is not working. The same thing if you've got a purple ink, that means your yellow is not working. Now they're both filled and primed. I'm going to put them in the printer and try. OK, the first question is, my printer is not working. When you say printer is not working, there are two kinds of not working. One is you can print. But the print page is either less desirable or just blank. And let's call that printer is working, but the printout is not good. And when you say printer is not working, that means if you send a page to a printer, a printer doesn't print at all. So that would be easier to diagnose the problem. The first question is not about this refilled cartridge. It's a sponge-less cartridge. Let me get a sponge-less cartridge. Let's say I already filled first. Perfect. So you can say there's only one pixel missing, but that normally it will go away if you do a printer cleaning. And that will be gone pretty quick. Don't take it out and clean it. Just use the printer's building function that they'll fix. You can see all the three other colors is pretty much good. So let me print the whole page. OK, looks good. OK, very often the first question is, OK, when I print now, I still get a low ink, although I already refilled the printer. As the printer still shows low ink. So if you see the indicator for the cartridge, both of them are light up. OK, if you print from the computer, the computer is going to have a pop-up message that a low ink or toner. What happens is that there's something called ink monitor. And that's when we counter. It's just how many pages you print it. And that counter is a one-way printer, and you cannot reverse it. So even if you refilled the cartridge, that printer's still going on. So that printer thinks that you are low on ink, no matter how much physical ink you have in the cartridge. Luckily, you can turn the monitor off. After you turn it off, the printer doesn't care how much ink you have in there. And you just monitor. If you are missing a color, you just fill it up, and just do it over and over again. So you turn it off once in a lifetime. So when you start that time coming, you cannot control it. It just, the printer has to roll to the maximum number of magical pages that you can do it. So right now, you can see that both of them light up and steady. That means it's less than 20% ink. I hope we're closer to there. But right now it's a steady yellow. There's nothing you can do. Just keep printing. Let me print a couple pages so you can run over the page limit. OK, let me show you. So on the ink monitor, you can see both of them have exclamation mark on it. That means low ink. And the printing ink is running low. And I hopefully we can run over the black counter pretty soon. So basically, don't panic. Just keep using the printer. Eventually, you're going to get that one day. I'll just let it run for a while. OK, another question is, the printer works, but the output is blank or is in low quality. OK, normally, that is the print nozzle is clogged. What you can do is, if you have a priming kit, just prime it. And if you have a dried cartridge and you can get both hot water and get about half inch of water and just put the cartridge on it. And then just soak it for another two hours. Take it out, prime it, then clean it, then you reinsert it. That should fix the output as blank or less desirable problem. OK, let me go run over another batch. I'm going to say if we can use up all the black. What do you mean that I damaged the print net? Ah, we could just. There are lots of, I think the printer think there are lots of black ink in there. So we cannot run over the black one. Basically, if you want to run over the counter, just print a whole bunch of pages. Until one day, there is an error window called by my computer. Normally, it starts with error code 1688 or 1686. And don't close that window on your computer. And just come to your printer and find the stop button and hold the button for five seconds. And that will disable the ink monitor. It's only on that time that you have an error message says your ink is depleted. Then you can turn it off. You cannot turn it off now. You can see I already printed two badges and the printer's still working. So let's just keep using it. And another thing is if you close that window by accident, how to recreate that window, you just send another page to the printer. And you're going to have that window again so you can go turn it off. You only do it once lifetime for cartridge. So the next time when you have a different cartridge, the ink monitor will come back. And the other thing is after you turn off the ink monitor, for example, if you turn off the black, and the black light will be blinking yellow. And there's nothing to fix it. It's just going to blink yellow. And if you don't like it, you can just take a piece of tape over it. OK, our question is, some people have this refillable cartridge. They find it really hard to insert and take it in and take it out. So for this cartridge, take it in as you don't really like push inside. You kind of lay on it. Then you lift it up, and lift it up, and push forward. It has a catch here. So basically, you do this. So if you just do this, it's pretty hard to do. So you put it in, and then you do this. And to take it out, it's the opposite. Instead of dragging it out, you push this down. Just use this as a leverage. Push it down, and pull it out. And why it says mostly it happened to the sponsorless cartridge is because to making it, you have to cut the cover off. Then you glue it. You send it down, then glue it. When you send it, you've sent it too much, or you have too much glue. The glue will be on this side. And you can see this becomes shorter. So it's very hard to get in and get out. So what you can do is you can get a file. Let me get a file. You've got a file. You've got a file a couple of times. And that should fix it. And the next one, let me see the next question. Next question is, the printer doesn't work, and that the printer shows the following cartridge is missing or damaged. And that's because the back of your cartridge, there's an electronic ribbon. You want to keep this thing wet. You want to keep this thing dry. And also on the back of the printer, the contact pins. And you want those pins to be dry and clean. So make sure those are clean. And if you clean those, it still doesn't go in. Just make sure that what I said about to push in the cartridge. You want to set it evenly and have a good contact. It's all about the contact. You can do it a couple of times and still assess air. Maybe your electronic inside is bad. So in that case, you'll have to get a new cartridge. Let's go to eBay and search for Refillable 245. And you're going to get plenty of hits. Another thing is you have a remanufactured cartridge like this. So let me show you the regular cartridge. This is OEM. This is remanufactured. Remanufactured cartridges have a piece of chip. They glue it over this. Then they solder it down those contact points. And it made something wrong there. So that's why normally I don't refill Refillable. I don't refill remanufactured cartridges. I just use them as blanks. And in some cases, actually, I got lucky as I peel this one off. And then there's an original cartridge. It's down there. I send it down. I'm using about 1,000 grit sandpaper. I send it down. And I start working. OK, that's another thing I'm going to try. OK, next one. The printer is not working. When I send a page to the printer, nothing happens. OK, and what you can do is actually you can just put a piece of paper on the printer and copy it. You press the copy. If the printer can copy it well, that means the printer works well. All your problem is in the connection. Either a USB or your Wi-Fi, or maybe you need to restart your printer. Electron ribbon, I think that's pretty much it. OK, that's it. Thank you for coming. And basically, I'm so bored about this quarantine thing. And I'm the only one working in the company. So we're deemed to be essential industrial business. So we have to keep open because we supply some medical inks. But we come here. We're rotating. So every day, only one person comes. For me, it's just myself all day. Get kind of lonely. Thank you. Cheers. Bye.