HP 67 Cartridge Refill: Fix E0 and E1 Errors and Make a Spongeless Refillable HP 67 Cartridge.

We have refilled our 67 cartridges in the previous blog, and we'll print happily ever after. Then something happens. We either change paper or start a print batch, and then we got the E0 error. The E0 error means the printer cannot recognize the cartridge. To troubleshoot the problem, we will need to take the cartridge out, clean the contact points, and put the cartridge back. Do it a couple of times. If you still get an error, that means the cartridge is shot.

It depends on what you're doing earlier, so if you were refilling the cartridge and put the cartridge back. This error occurs. You probably have some excessive ink get into the chip, so you want to clean the contact points a little bit put them back, so HP is correct. However, if you remember the beginning of the video, I was adding more paper, then this happens, so obviously is not the contact point. HP did something to it.

I call up a friend who's in the refill business. What he told me is: HP 67 is refillable. However, if you get a starter cartridge, there's more likely you get an E0 error. He named those refillable cartridges "the chosen one." Let's say if you get a starter cartridge, you less likely to get the chosen one. Suppose you get a regular cartridge, your chances increase. He didn't tell me how much. He doesn't want to disclose his business secrets. He said for the XL version, 9 of 10 is chosen one.

I'm going to collect some data. For the black cartridge, we're still using the starter cartridge coming with the printer. The refill one will print 100 pages, and the refill two will print at 110 pages. For the color, the starter cartridge is dead. Then we got a regular cartridge, we print 110, receive a "low ink" warning, and that the color went out, so we have to refill number one for the color. Forty-one pages later, the color got an E0 error again. For the black, it was still on the starter cartridge. The black printed a total of 251 pages. The color there already went through the two cartridges. The starter cartridge print 100 pages, and the regular published 141 before it died. Just like wives, everything is wrong because you didn't communicate correctly. Okay, I'll let you talk to the more expensive cartridge, Excel. The black ink refill three took ten more pages, and the color went out, so totally, refill three printed 51 pages. Then I got fewer and fewer pages per refill for the black. For the color, I'm still using the original ink. No refill yet.

By now, you'll probably figure out that the black cartridge, the starter cartridge is a chosen one, so we give a nickname, Neo. We need to do some operation, Neo because we can refill every 20 pages. After removing the cover and taking a look at the sponge, we found that HP changed their sponge, and now it has larger pores, so it holds less ink. We'll replace this cover with a transparent lid. The HP is using the sponge to regulate the ink pressure. We use a unique pressure regulator on the cover, so it doesn't need a sponge, and we can make it spongeless.

I'm going to put a link of how to make a spongeless cartridge here on the top. Let me do a little bit of special today. We're going to make a hybrid. We're going to make both sponge and spongeless hybrid in one unit. That's going to correct some ink cartridge problems with the ink leaking, and it helps a little bit. If you try to make a spongeless, and it doesn't work, you can try this method.

We'll smooth out the top, and we'll remove the lower portion of the wall altogether. You can keep the upper part of the wall because that is going to prevent you install the cover upside down. For the black, if you remove all the barriers, it is pretty quick. You install it upside down. Now I put a sponge back to the box. By the way, this hybrid only works for a non-XL cartridge. Excel cartridge, you don't have this.

I wouldn't say I like the hybrid, but some people cannot get the completely spongeless cartridge working. Here's something new that you can try.

This way, you got the two things to regulate in pressure so that it may be better. Now I can glue it together, and please refer to the original how to make a spongeless cartridge. It's more detailed step by step. I give lots of pointers. Make sure you're going to glue it air-tight. Wipe out the excessive ink, put the rubber bands, and let it sit for 12 to 24 hours.

SP means spongeless. Let's print the first 50 pages. During the printing, I have this strange error of E1. If you look it up, E1 means the incorrect paper size. I couldn't figure it out until I restart the printer. It sometimes seems your software is telling the printer that you're going to print out another paper size. Somehow the whole system messed up, so you restart your printer, restart your computer, and the thing will be fixed.

Some pages later, we just had the first refill for the color, so the original color one printed 171 pages, and the black starter cartridge is still going strong. The spongeless right now is printing 91 pages. Now you can see the advantage of using a spongeless cartridge. Directly we're printing 141 pages on the spongeless.

The refill of one of the color Excel cartridges did pretty well. It prints 160 pages. The second refill of the color cartridge appears to have this sponge fatigue problem again. Only print 45 pages before it needs to be refilled. The color cartridge is also a chosen one. However, it has this sponge fatigue problem. You're going to look at the refill volume after the first refill. If you want to correct that, you can convert it to a spongeless color cartridge. You don't have to do the hybrid. Just do a color one. Most likely, it's going to work.