 Hi, this is Kevin. Today I'm going to show you how to refill those integrated cartridges. Those called integrated cartridges because the printhead on the bottom and the cartridge is built into one unit. Those cartridges are really simple cartridges. HP doesn't have a mechanism to track how much ink in them, so you can just keep refilling them, refilling them until the whole thing wears out. Some people believe HP will disable the printer or HP will make the print quality suffer if you refill the cartridges. Those are misconceptions that I'm going to tell you why. Okay, first, a couple years ago, about 10 years, 15 years ago, I have to check exactly the date. There's a lawsuit against HP in Ohio and consumer one. Basically the judge side with consumers that we have the right to refill the cartridge. So HP cannot take this away from us. HP cannot disable the printer or make the print quality suffer. So after that HP develops kind of ways to make you believe you cannot refill the cartridge. HP showed you three error messages. Actually it's not error message. HP wants to believe there's something wrong with your printer, but it's not error. Let me say the first message is, hey, your printer is low on ink or ink toner low. And the message body says, do you want to buy HP cartridges? And if not, just click cancel. So you click close the window. So the second message is a little bit deceiving. The second message will say your printer is almost run out of ink. To keep using this cartridge, continue or click OK or click yes. If you want to stop printing, click cancel. So there are lots of people just click cancel and send me emails saying Kevin, my printer is preventing me from using the refill ink. What should I do? I'll say you should read and understand to continue use the cartridge. Click OK or click continue. So third one is even more deceiving. Third one is when you put a cartridge inside a printer. If the cartridge has less ink or the cartridge is made by a third party manufacturer, which is totally fine, HP should accept, should by now accept third party cartridges. And there's one lawsuit about five years ago. And there are two more lawsuits in Europe. And there's one more lawsuit. OK, by the way, the first lawsuit gets settled. HP paid money to settle the third party. And then the two in Europe, the consumer one. And the third one is this year I got an email and they said they are grouping together. And we're going to have another lawsuit against HP. OK, so you think HP will dare to not allow you to refill your ink. OK, third one is this. When you put a third party cartridge or you put original HP cartridge, but the cartridge was used before, HP will say this. Counterfeit or used cartridge detected. And after that, do you want to cancel the print? Click cancel. And do you want to keep using the cartridge? Click yes. Or click continue. Of course, click yes. And then it's gone. Just go back to your cartridge. Those messages are specially designed to set you out. And by itself, it sounds really clear. But what's really confusing you is those messages going on. And then you don't know how to refill. And you have some real technical issue with your cartridge. Now, for example, they refilled the cartridge. But after they refilled cartridge, they did not. I'll show you how to prime the cartridge. They did not prime the cartridge. So the cartridge is not ready to print. So they put it back in the printer. It showed counterfeit or used cartridge detected. They click yes. Then they print out a blank page. The blank page is caused by you did not prime the cartridge. It's not caused by that message box that you clicked. So the email me said, hey, Kevin, you said HP cannot stop me from using refill cartridge. And actually happened today. And I'll tell him, go prime the cartridge to see what happened. They prime the cartridge. I'll say 9 out of 10 will not reply to my email. And 1 in 10 will say, thank you. It worked. OK. By the way, this video will be long, very long. Because I want to cover every single thing that you might encounter with all those cartridges, all the possible scenarios. So nothing could be better if I just started with a brand new printer with a brand new cartridge. And even better, I'll select the lowest model, cheapest model, HP half. And you can see if I can review that one. I mean, you're good to review anyone. And I don't want to make a short video just show you how to add in again and leave you out there with all those error messages, confusing messages. So leave you dry. So I'm going to buy a new brand new printer. And I'm going to start to finish. I hope it can finish because there are many, many, many reviews. So eventually I might get bored. So we just stop where we're probably won't stop. But I want to show you step by step all the error message you may encounter and all the problem you may have. So this will be a really long video. So you can view this whenever you have problems, come back to this video. Okay. Are you guys ready to get started? I'm going to use a brand new brand new printer and those are initial cartridges. So you can see what kind of problem I'm going to facing and therefore you can solve it at home. I like this printer because it has really a small footprint and I can put it on top of other things. And also it's a straight feed from paper feed from the back. And then install the drivers and connect the USB cord. So now we take the start cartridge that come with the printer. Those are initial cartridges that HP gave you for free. And we're going to throw them in the printer. And then we just keep printing until the initial ink is all gone. So we're going to print until we get the initial HP ink all gone. You can see it doesn't really print many pages before the ink is gone. HP only gave you a couple drops of ink to start. And you can see the blue is gone now, so you get this pinkish color. OK, the computer light up like a Christmas tree. There are two windows. OK, let me put this straight. HP cannot and will not stop you from using refill cartridges. And HP has no idea how many ink in the cartridge either. So what only HP can do is show you a couple of warnings. This matches as low on ink. One or more cartridges look like a more low on ink. Do we want to buy our expensive ink? And what you say? Close. You don't need it. OK, this one. Oh, order is easy. Blah, blah, blah. To continue, you use the cartridge. Click OK to cancel the print. Click cancel the print. So what I do if I want to use the cartridge, I just click OK. That's it. I'm going to use a BCH startup for a kit for starters. This kit is called EZ30T. To find it, you can go to bchtechnologies.com. We list all the solutions here. So for example, if you first time come to the website and you want to go see what those HP cartridges are, you can click a printer review solutions for HP. I'll give some explanation what kind of, there are how many kinds of HP cartridges. For example, today we review these integrated cartridges. Rather than integrated, I give a cuter name called little cube. So you know you'll go to review this one. So you'll go to review the little cube. And this actually is the only kit you need. It fits all the HP integrated cartridge models. You click on it. And here it is. It has four colors. And it has a link to our manual. But if you see this video, you won't really need the manual. And it has the priming tools. So for the first time through filters, you want to back it this kit. So in the future, the only thing you want to buy is the ink. So those tools can be washed and get used again and again. Inside the tool bag, you have two silicone pads, couple toothpicks, or you'll pick your teeth after you refill it. No, actually not. I'll show you what you're going to use it. There's a drill and then there's a syringe. So we get over empty cartridge here. We're going to take a knife and peel the label off. You're going to see five holes on the cartridge. There are four on each corner. Then there's one in the middle. Let me open up one so you can see what's inside. So you can see there's a sponge inside. And then there's a wall around it. Your goal is to add ink to this sponge. So the hole you want to use is the middle hole. What I'll do is I put a cartridge on top, then invert it. I'm kind of trying from here. What I'm doing is I'm from here. I'm trying to find this edge. Then I press it down a little bit and slowly start squeezing. So I'm finding the wall right now. There we go. I push all the way to the end, then I'm going down a little bit. So now I can squeeze. Do not push it all the way to the bottom. If you push it really hard, you cannot squeeze it off. So push and give a little space. Okay, now I soak the whole thing. You can see this is what I did earlier. I go to the wall and then I get this part wet. However, you'll know the sponge. Sometime after you add the liquid, the liquid will just stay on the top. It did not come to the bottom. So what do we need is we need a tool to do a little bit of suction, suck the ink to the bottom. This is what we call priming tool that's included in this package. What it has is it has a rubber sucker that is exactly matching the size of your printhead. Lay this to the middle. And push forward and down. Let me put it on the side. Give a little bit of push like this. And now you want to draw the ink. See, you put the ink here. You want the ink to come down. This doesn't have suction, so I do it again. Sometime I hold down here, using my finger to push it down. You can suck until you can see the air bubbles coming out. And now let's work on the colors. Here is if I take the cap off, here's what the color looks like. You got one hole on the top. In this case, sometimes HPE play the trick. They will swap the two colors. So you might want to make sure that you can tell which color is which. From here you can see a little bit yellow. So this is yellow. And you can see a little bit of magenta here. So that must be magenta. And this is cyan. So those two cartridges are the same color sequence. If you do not check and after you refill it, you'll see the color swapped. And that means you have a trick cartridge. So we have a magenta on the top. This is what the tooth is for. So this is the magenta. I don't want to verify this is cyan. And this is cyan. So for the color, it's a lot harder to refill than the black. The sponge is smaller. Our goal is through this hole, I'm going to find a wall. And then I'm going to push it down a little bit. And then I'm going to release the... So kind of from the wall I go as low as possible to the bottom. That starts squeezed ink. So from the hole, I go to the side. And I find a wall and I squeeze it down. Those squeeze more than 10 times. And you don't want to overfill it. I'll switch the silicone pad to the color cartridge. The color cartridge is shorter. Because the yellow one is a little shorter. And you already can see I overfilled the magenta. Because the magenta is falling out. So at least I need to remove the overfilled magenta. I know some people do not like to wipe the printer. I'm a wiper. I like to wipe it clean before I insert it. This is a quick check if I overfilled any color. So if I just dab it, dab again, dab again. And I underfilled the cyan. And I overfilled the magenta. So I'm going to add a little bit of cyan. Now you can see it with all three colors. OK cartridge is very low. To continue using this cartridge, click OK. To cancel your print job, click the cancel print. We click OK of course. You can see the magenta is not coming out. So you can see yellow. You can see cyan. But not magenta. Don't start priming yet. So print a couple pages. See if I can improve myself. You also can see the black is dripping. That's because we overfilled the black. So it's very excessive for you to come out. And we just keep printing a couple pages. And let everything work it out by itself. Oh, we got some cyan now. Good. More pages. You can see all the color is perfect up to the third page. You can see there's some ink leaking. Don't worry. Just print a couple pages. See what's going on. And see. Basically we didn't do anything. And they just fixed itself. So what you saw is just ink coming down to the cartridge. You need to give it a bit of time. For you really to feel the ink to come down. So now you can see as after couple pages the magenta is gone. Basically we did not fill all the colors with exactly amount. So right now you have different ink pressure among different chambers. And now the best thing to do is just leave the cartridge in the printer for like 20-30 minutes. Then come back and print again. Okay, took a long walk. And I think it should be okay now. Let's try to print. We see a little bit of stripes on the side. But we keep printing the ink crack itself after the second page. Later on I'll find the why you have a stripe on the first page. It's not clogged. It is excessive ink because all the ink comes out. And I'm going to discuss it later at the end of the video. And I'm going to show you how to correct it. Okay, we're on the secondary field. We run out of gloves. So let's try to do this as needed as possible. Black. And try to find that wall. Press it down a little bit. You can see ink coming from the top. So we'll stop. Give us a little bit of time. And now we don't need a toothpick anymore. We know which color it is. So the magenta. We print about 100 pages a day. So if we keep using this one, we'll probably have to refill maybe every other day. See the black come down already. And not much other colors. Okay, now you can start seeing the color coming out. See the blues coming down now. We'll run a couple pages. Then decide if we want to print it or not. And we decide which color to print. Okay, the colors are okay. Just the black need to be prime. So you can see there's no black color. See what the problem is. Okay. That's perfect. Thank you. Sure. What's wrong with the bottom one? The bottom one is the printed printout. I think we print almost 10,000 pages. I wonder if it's like white. Okay, well, we use that one. So good. Okay, 200 pages later. And black is running out again. And now you'll know the routine. Fill it up and prime it. The color didn't show in its ink. So it just looks wet or not. Just put a couple drops on it. Okay, this is after the third refill. Okay, the black is back. And the color looks perfect. You might notice we only primed the black cartridge. We did not prime the color cartridge. Because the color cartridge wasn't running out. So there's no air bubbles on the bottom. So we just add some ink on it. So refill often. And don't wait until it's dry. Okay, this is going to be our last refill. We started this project in September. Now it's December. It has been three months. So those two cartridges just keep going and going and going. So we cannot find a way to kill it. So in the over-last refill, we're going to try to overfill it. We're going to use the BCH standard ink. So because we already have all the tools we needed from the first starter kit, you might know there are different types. There are pigment ink and there are dye ink. For all those integrated cartridges, what we found is the dye ink lasts a lot longer than the pigment ink. And although the HP filled the black with pigment black, I would suggest you use all dye ink in it. So if you want to get a bulk ink, which you can go to here, ink for printers, and refilling for HP and old dye ink. And this is the best watercolor ink for this cartridge. I said best because it's cheaper. I mean, those are not really sophisticated cartridges, so I'm not going to use a premium ink in it. I'll just use a standard ink. If I go a little bit fancy, you can go use a premium dye ink. But those mostly are print documents, so I'll just stay with standard ink. And now we can just reuse those tools and we only get bulk ink. So now there's lots and lots of ink. We'll do the same for the other colors. We'll just add too much ink into each cartridge and see what happens. Because they are overfilled, so when you flip them over, you start seeing the ink flowing out. In most cases, it's not that bad because you get the ink, and that's a good thing. However, you might find you're missing one color. And that color is not clogged. It's just because there's so much ink from other colors. So this color is overwhelmed. In this case, the yellow didn't show up. And there's another thing that I need to mention is that when you overfill the cartridge, and then you prime it and you put it back, and the first couple pages always look like it's clogged. Especially the black, because the black is bigger, so it's easier to do. So you always have a strap for the black. Then when you take it out, you flip over and you're going to see the black is covered with ink. And your unclogged and unclogged always, you put it back, print it two pages always like that. What should you do? Just open it up. After you print it two pages, just wipe the bottom clean and wipe out the excessive ink. It's better to have a wet paper towel do this. And you wipe the clean, then put it back. Here's an example. If you see this for the packing slip, it looks like clogged, actually it's not clogging. And then I use a wet paper towel. Because I just primed it, I know it's not clogged. And then I'll put it back. And now if you see the packing slip, it's crisp, clear. So on the top is when we stop. And this is after we just use a paper towel, just wipe it clean. So this is what happens when you overfill. It looks like clogged, but it's not. We'll print a few more pages to make sure the yellow is not coming out. Actually if you keep printing, the yellow will eventually come out, but the other ink will be gone. So basically you are playing a game of trying to have three colors have about the same amount of ink in it. You can draw most of ink out in that way. That will be automatically balanced. Or you can just add some yellow and then draw some out. And just play with it. We've got about the same length of yellow magenta and cyan. So we'll print a couple pages and you can see the color is still off. So what we're going to do is just leave in the printer because we know they all are clogged because you see the same bar of yellow magenta and cyan. So we're just leaving the printer and we're going to come back next day. Okay, we're back. So it's not that scary because we don't have it overfilled. So the key is to prime it to make sure it's not really clogged and then make sure you've got an even bar of three colors with a white paper towel. And then just leave it in the printer for a couple hours or a day and come back. I hope you enjoyed this video. Visit us at www.bchtechnologies.com or locally at Grisboro, North Carolina. Cheers!