 Hey guys, it's Kevin. Today, I'm going to show you how to make a sponge refillable cartridge with HP67. In the previous two videos, we did how to refill it and we did how to select the cartridge and avoid the E01 error. Please like this video if you find it useful. I mean this kind of like. Today, I'm going to use this kit from BCH to replace all the sponges inside the cartridge. If you remember from the previous video, the problem with OEM cartridge is the sponge fatigue and although you can refill it, you can only print the 20-30 pages after a while. The sponge is not good anymore. So this kit has a clear cover. One for the color, one for the black and has four sponges, three for the tricolor and one for the black. I also included this priming syringe. You might need it and you might not. So it's in the kit, but it's optional to use. It doesn't have any syringes. So you get syringe from when you're buying the ink, but it does have four needles. I'll put the link to the kit above. The superglue is for the car if you want to glue the cover airtight, which is optional. And actually, I suggest you not to because if you do not glue the airtight, you can remove the sponge later and use the sponge at another set of cartridge. OK, you may have heard the sponge less, which means you don't need a sponge. For the sponge less is easier to do, but for the sponge less, you have to glue the cover airtight. And that means you have to buy another site for each cartridge. But this one you can just reuse again and again and pass on to your children and pass on to your grandchildren. So you buy the ones. And again, this is the hardest one to do. And you need a really sharp blade. I suggest you use the utility knife and with a brand new blade. And also, you need a considerable arm strength. And the first thing is you'll find this seam and put your sharp knife on it and start using your arm to move up down and push down. Be really careful if you lose a finger, it's not my fault. Once you feel a corner is compromised and you change it to another corner, so you just rotate it and work on all the corners. Why don't you try this at home? So if you can open it and you buy the kit, if you cannot and you can throw the cartridge away, you're going to throw the cartridge away anyway. OK, you're going to see this tiny little sponge. Guess how much you can hold. And also, you can see there's a wall around it. And that's because HP doesn't want you to put more ink in it. And remember, the black color is easily to get glued backwards. And you should take a mental picture. Where's the front? Where's the back? Before you put the black cover back. And this is a regular size 67. And you can see HP didn't even bother to fill up the sponge. They only filled half full. So you're paying $15 for that three drops of ink. Let's take a look over the 67 XL. You can see the HP gave you a lot more ink in the XL. And the sponge is a little bit more full. And the sponge actually is a little bit larger than the regular sponge. So you get a comparison of the regular sponge. And XL sponge. So over to this goal is we're going to use this granddaddy sponge. Let's see how much ink we can get for $15 from BCH. So we go to bchtechnology.com. And we go to ink for printers and refilling for HP. And select old dye ink. I know the original HP is pigment ink. But based on my experience, use the dye ink on this cartridge. And we go to... I'm going to suggest you to get this kit. It has six bottles. Each bottle has 100 ml. And HP only gave you 3.5 ml each cartridge. So each bottle will be 20 refills. Again, I'm going to put a link above so you can find it. Okay, the over next task is just remove this wall so we can put a sponge in. I think the best way to do it is have a CNC machine and you can program it. And I usually do it just use the applyer, just nip, nip. When you do it, there's a filter underneath. Do not break that filter. If you break that filter, the cartridge will go bad. It gets harder and harder when you reach the bottom. Sometimes I use a stove to heat up a screwdriver. I use the screwdriver to do the bottom. Another way is using rotary tool. I'm using this cheap one from Amazon. It's like $21 with free delivery. It has this part I find that really useful. I'm going to put the asin here. So if you want it, you can get it from Amazon. You don't have to make it absolutely flat. Remember, if you press the sponge down, the sponge has good contact with the filter. And that's good enough. And now wash the cartridge with distilled water. Do not use tap water or mineral water. And you can get distilled water from any grocery store. And my region is like 85 cents for a gallon. And now it's the fun part. The sponge is made larger than the cartridge. That's intentional. So you have to squeeze it and make it really snuggy. Press it down harder if you didn't make the bottom totally flat. And now the cover. Make sure to compare the original cover. And make sure which is up and which is down. We're not going to glue the cover up airtight today. So just make sure you put the cover in the right way and get a piece of tape. And just tape it. If you can't come with those sharp needles, just feel a syringe. Then use those sharp needles. And today I'm going to show you as if you don't have sharp needles, if you have like blunt needles, it can still penetrate the sponge. However, do it with an angle so you can make sure it doesn't puncture through the filter. You can just squeeze as much ink as you want until you see the ink comes up. For the color ink is the same chore. Cut and rotate, cut and rotate. We can see there's no much difference in the sponge size between the regular and the XL. And remember the color sequence. And the left is yellow and the right is blue. And the top one is magenta. And magenta is a little bit special. See the filter is kind of high. So you need to push down the sponge a little bit more when you install. So for the yellow and the cyan, we need to remove the middle divider. And for the magenta, we need to move the left and the right divider. After you're done, clean with distilled water and also check the magenta. Make sure the magenta is all the way down. For all the three colors, the one that you have most problem with may be magenta, because your sponge is not all the way down. And how about this before and after picture? Again, we're going to secure the top with tape rather than glue it at airtight. And we're going to just use tape to tape it. Again, go in with the angle. Do not penetrate the filter. Now we need to prime it. If we glue it at airtight, so we can just use this priming syringe to push some air in each chamber. And the ink will be primed and coming out. Because we didn't glue the airtight, we'll need a priming kit. For starters, you can go just search for easy thing. And go to this one, first time I refilcated for HP, and it's called the easy 30T. And this one, you can have all four colors, and you have a full priming kit. The ink volume is 30 mil each color. The ink I recommend earlier, this ink doesn't have a priming kit. It only has ink, but you got lots of ink. You got 100 mil each for six bottles. And if you want to buy the priming kit by itself, you go to accessories, priming clip and syringe, and you can buy this priming kit by itself. It's like we have a promotion, so we have sales. So I don't know at the time you look at this, which way is easier. The easy 30T has everything you need, but if you buy them separately, you might get a better deal. The priming kit will have two rubber pads. One has one is longer, one is shorter. The shorter one is for the color, tricolor cartridge. Just line it up, push it in, and draw some ink from the bottom. For the tricolor, the ink coming out should be black, because you combined all three colors. So you can see this is a little bit greenish, and that means your magenta is not good. So to test it, it has a white paper towel, and press it down. You can see there's no red color coming out. Most likely you didn't make the bottom flush, so the sponge doesn't have a good contact with the bottom. So let's try this. I'll put more magenta ink in it. You can see on the left is the new ink, which is a lot more black than on the right, which looks green. And our paper towel test look okay. You got all three colors. And now we're going to change the pad and do the black. And do not contact me if you cannot put the black on. This clip is the correct clip. If it doesn't fit really tight, it won't have any vacuum. Okay, so if you put it like this, and you can see they all land up, and land up in the middle, push down, and then push forward. And then that should work. I still got people contacting me saying they cannot push it in, and the clip is too small. And I don't really know how to give a better suggestion than other than just putting the middle, push it down, and push forward. And if you don't have a good vacuum, and you don't feel it sucking, and just move the cartridge a little bit around until you get a good vacuum. And the black look good. Let's take a first spin. And there's no E01 air. That's great. And watch my previous video. I'm going to put it in the description. And if you have an E01 air, and check out that video, and you can understand what it is. I'll put a direction to Apple China restaurant in the description. There's a fake restaurant, a fake China, Apple China restaurant in Greensboro now. And if you use Google Maps, it will lead you to the fake one. Okay, I'm going to put the real one in the description. And the first page looks delicious. But if we print a couple more pages, you're going to see the red color is gone. Normally, it means you need a primer a little bit more. Or your sponge is not down enough to touch the filter. So we'll just leave it like this. We don't do anything for half an hour. And then we come back, print another page. So if the sponge touched the filter, and the color should come down now. And you can see it's still yellow. It's hard to tell if your cartridge is clogged, air clogged, or the sponge needs to come down a little bit. So we'll just leave the cartridge in the printer for a day. Then we'll come back the second day and start printing. If we have any problem with ink pressure, it should be balanced the second day. So if the printer is still bad, we need to adjust the sponge. It looked pretty good for the first few, like a third page. And then you can see it started getting yellow again. So we need to adjust the sponge. I'll just use a needle to press the sponge down a little bit. Yeah, I'm not adding ink. I'm just pushing the sponge down. If this doesn't work, I'm going to take the cover off and grind it down the divider a little bit more. Make it a little bit lower so the sponge can come down a little bit. And however, this seems to fix the problem. I hope you enjoyed this video. Visit us at www.bchtechnologies.com or locally at Greensboro, North Carolina. Cheers!