5 Epson Secrets Revealed: How to Refill Your Original Cartridge and Print Free Forever

Today, we're going to show you how to reveal an Epson cartridge. Before we start, there is some homework to do. Let's start with the cartridge. The printer towards the number of pages is printed on a computer chip located at the front of the cartridge. Our first homework is to learn how to reset a page number back to zero.

Otherwise, the printer will not recognize the new ink level. You refill the cartridge, but the cartridge is still empty. To reset that page number, you need something called a resetter. We have a video of resetting the chip. You can find it on our YouTube channel.

The second homework is how to unclog the printer. We may be using new ink or even switching from pigment to dye ink. Furthermore, the revealing activity may introduce air bubbles, which block the printhead. Knowing how to unclog is very useful. There are many videos on how to unclog the printhead. We may add some more later too. By the way, we have a special adaptor to remove air bubbles from the cartridge.

You can go to www.bchtechnologies.com and go-to accessories and reveal tools, and there are these plastic needles. You put the adapter in front of the syringe, and you push the adapter inside the cartridge and draw air out. However, if you have a needle, use a syringe. It's just as good. Let's take a closer look at the cartridge design. On top of the ink outlet, we have something called a one-way damper.

This damper will make the ink flow one way from the cartridge to the outlet. If you try to inject ink from the outlet into the cartridge, it will not work. One of our competitors sells a refill tool for $200. They claim that the device will let you inject ink backward. After paying the money, they will send us a 20-mill syringe. Then, they tell us to push air hard into the cartridge and hear the dumper's membrane is fractured. When you fracture the membrane, you can inject the ink backward.

We don't have a 20-mill syringe here, but we have a 10-mill syringe. We can offer this syringe for half the price, $100 if anybody is interested. Also, we have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale. Let's try to fracture the membrane, see how hard it is. I want to try some new methods. There you go. There is the old fractured membrane. Let's focus on refills.

Our goal is to add ink to the cartridge. Let me take the cartridge cover off first. There are three significant chambers in the cartridge. When you add ink to chamber two, it'll flow to chamber one. However, the cartridge needs some ink in chamber three, so the printer can detect ink from the little window underneath the cartridge. In this tutorial, we took off the cover, and we also used our transparent cartridge to show you the progress.

In a real reveal, you don't need to take off the cover. You don't need to have a transparent cartridge. However, if anybody is interested in making a transparent cartridge like this, you follow our YouTube video. We're going to make a video about how to make this. It's pretty cool. You can use any size of the drills. Smaller drill holes can be covered with tape or glue. Epson has an air vent on top, so it doesn't matter if you make it airtight or not.

If you don't have a drill, you can use a scissor top. Just use a scissor to drill through it. It doesn't matter. Just to plugging some of our product, we also sell three-millimeter drills and plugs, if anybody is interested. Yes, go to our website. The drill should be under Accessories, Refill Tools. It should be down the bottom—the three-millimeter drill.

Also, the plug is under the Accessory Plug. By the way, the green plugs work better for the three-millimeter drill. Now we add 10-mil of ink into the cartridge. If you have a squeeze bottle kind, you can add a third of the bottle. The squeeze bottle is 30 mil. You can see the ink naturally coming from chamber two and flowing to chamber one. Now, we use the thumb to put some pressure on chamber three.

Squeeze it, let the air come up, and let the ink flow down to chamber three so the ink can cover the window. By the way, because you're going to work this through the cover, the Epson's cover is very soft so that you can squeeze it without any trouble. We can add more ink if we want. Epson calls for 12 mils. It doesn't matter you add a 10-mil or 15. It doesn't matter. There might be concerns that chamber three is not full. This is okay.

Let us simulate the printing process. We're going to draw ink from the simulator printing, the printers consuming ink. You can see chamber one is the first one to get emptied. Now, chamber two provides the ink. Some from chamber two flow to chamber three, and the little window is covered. Now chamber two is empty, and now number three is empty. Therefore, you don't have to fill all the chambers.