This is the second part of how to refill the T802 cartridge. This is a cartridge shell that you can find at the cartridge for Epson. You click at T802. This is the empty shell. It doesn't have any chips, and it doesn't have ink. This is over just one life-cycle chip. These are our new four life-cycle chips. If you're afraid of mixing up chips, it's okay. You use your phone to zoom in. You can see this is 802XLK. That means black. This 802XLC, cyan. That's yellow. Magenta. We get our printer calibrated with Epson's pigment. The first one we want to try is to use to convert it into a dye ink printer.

Go to maintenance, ink cartridge replacement, next, start.

We're going to install the black first. After that, we got to use a Gorilla double-sided tape to glue the chip.

Make sure you know which side is up, which one is down. This one with a code is down. This little thing with a bar is up.

We're going to use the most unique and expensive ink that you can find. It's going to be as a dye ink. You go to refill ink, refill ink for Epson. You can see this is a standard 600 milliliter. It is less than $3 a refill. Why did Epson sell you a $3 for $110? That would be beyond our imagination. We're going to use a syringe, or we can carefully put it this way.

I mentioned that I like Epson's one-way flow dampener because the ink can only flow one way to the print head, so you have less chance to have an air bubble in here. What I ought to do is if I don't have the dampener, I make sure the ink flow to the very front of the cartridge. Another thing is I can use a special tip to push it in, and suck the ink out, so I know this part doesn't have any air bubbles. I am moving on to the cyan.

Always try to be neat. Magenta.

We have lots of foams in the front, so make sure that you get all the ink in the front.

Similar to the Epson cartridge, you have to tear off the yellow labels.

Okay. At least the printer read our first set of chips. Okay, let's say we clog out the printer because we switch from pigment ink to dye ink now. This is the printer asks you if you want to update automatically. We disable automatic updates. There's still some pigment left in the printer, so the first few pages will still be pigment in it. Even if you've printed it excellently, don't trust it. Always print at least ten more pages before you say if it's clogged or not. This is still pigment ink. Tell you what, I'll print maybe 30 pages.

Okay, we finish flushing the printhead by printing 30 pages for color. This is a pigment ink, and this is the standard dye ink. One is printed with the dye ink about half the price of the pigment ink, and now you can understand why people switch. You won't be able to find much difference between the two. We will get the dye ink wet. It's not going to all the color disappear. I got a pigment here. I got a dye ink here. Let me put it on a white background, and you can see.

You can see that pigment ink is still sharp. There's no difference. There's no running. You'll see a lot of that running around that dye ink. If you pour coffee on it, you dry it real quick. There's not too much. You can see the border of color versus the border here. This is sharp. This was about the only difference there is. You can see where you can see more magenta is running because here you get a loss of magenta. Okay, that's about the difference.

If you start dry, make it a lot longer. This is what I did about 20 minutes ago. It looks like this. If you can stand this, you can save half of your ink money. Another thing I forgot to mention is so this pigment is this next page. You can see there's no running through the next page. If you get it wet for the dye ink, it's going to run to the next page. You can see the transition from pigment ink to dye ink is smooth. There's no clogging. This is to show the folks that say you cannot use dye ink in a pigment printer, yes you can.

We've printed about 300 pages using the BCH dye ink, and there's no clogging. You can see the printer works real fine with dye ink, so now we have switched this printer to a dye ink printer. Let's do a summary here. For the Epson 802 cartridge, the standard cartridge can print 900 pages black and 650 colors. The XL cartridge can estimate print 2600 black and 1980 color. You can see there's a big difference between the XL and 802. For this product, we make it a chip that can work four times at the XL level. You can have an estimate, over 10,000 pages you can print with this set of our chips.

When we consider price, if we buy one set of authentic Epson 802 cartridges, if we search online, one set is about $124. They only have one lifetime, so that you can use them once. You're paying about $124 for each life-cycle. You can buy a clone, a third-party, remanufactured cartridge. For each set, you're paying about $85. That's the cartridge with the ink. Then we have this empty cartridge you can use four times. XL4 means four times. We put a target price of $129.99. It looks like it's higher than those, but you can use it four times. Each time is about $32. Then we'll have to consider ink because the thing is empty.

If we add this standard ink and it's just like what we did in the first part and each set of ink, the KD600X, so like this guy. This guy can refill six times. You can use this to refill this guy six times. Each time is only $3. You add those together. Each will refill. It is going to cost you about $36.

Oh, lots of people ask me to make a comparison of dye ink and pigment ink. This is our Epson OEM ink that we use. I'm going to put the Epson pigment on the lab, and then we're going to put the BCH standard as our lowest grade dye ink. Let's compare this page first. One is $100, and one is $3? Can you tell the difference between $100 and $3? To remind you, yesterday we made the comparison. This is Epson's pigment ink that we pour water on it. You can see there's no- It didn't go through all the pages, and on the second page, it didn't get a stain. But, of course, the dye ink, that's the standard dye. After you pour water on it, that's going to go through the second page, and you'll get a little bit of stain on it, so this is about it, the difference you're going to see, and everything else look good.

If you have dye ink and accidentally pour coffee over it, it will not be all merged. Let's keep comparing, so this is an Epson, and this is dye ink. Turning in the text mode of Epson, so the text mode Epson supposedly should perform much better. Okay, here's Epson, and here's a dye. Okay, there's no much difference. The quality of dye ink is reaching up to Epson on the text quality. So it's not all bad and sees. Epson's supposed to be a little bit weaker on the photo, so here's Epson, so let's see the picture. Now it's dye ink on the image.

Let me show you, this pigment is supposed to be weaker than this dye. This is dye ink. It's supposed to be nice on a dye. They look a little bit smoother over the dye, but I don't see it too much. Let me cut this off so it'll be looking side by side. Okay, I cut this piece off, so this one on the right is supposed to be better than the left. Yes, you can see it. I think yes, the dye ink does a little better, but if you look at a picture this close, unless it's your girlfriend, something's wrong with you. From maybe arm length away, I don't see any difference.

Epson has made a lot of improvement on their pigment ink, so congratulations Epson. Finally, you'll be the $3 ink. I hope you'll see the difference, and for me, it doesn't worth the money to get pigment ink, but I don't know about you. Next video, we're going to switch from dye ink to pigment ink again.