Making a DIY SPONGELESS Refillable HP 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, and 65 Integrated Cartridge

Today we're going to show you how to make a spongeless refillable cartridge. You can do it on your startup cartridge or a regular cartridge, XL cartridge, or you can go to eBay and search for empty cartridges. You can buy those and modify them. Let's go over what we need. We need a MOD kit. Let's go to bchtechnologies.com and click MOD kit and a MOD kit for HP. This is a MOD kit for making spongeless. Make sure the picture says spongeless. Other things you will need are sandpaper, a heavy-duty utility knife, some rubber bands, super glue, and a long nose plier.

For the ink, we suggest you go to bchtechnologies.com, Go to Refill Ink, Refill Ink for HP, and on the left hand, you're going to see the filter, and you click 600 ml that's a total amount of ink. Then you'll scroll down and find a 4-Color ink, and it has three black ink and CMY. So there's a lot and a lot of ink. The first thing we do is gather the cartridge and protect it. We use a piece of tape, the sticky parts towards us, and the non-sticky part towards the cartridge so the cartridge printhead will not contact the glue. Then we got a second piece of tape and place it on the top of the cartridge and press it down.

Then we got a third piece of tape and put it on the electronic ribbon. The third piece is in case there's some superglue drip down. We don't want the superglue to get on the electronic tape. Then if you wish, you can sort of bend the tape a little and make a little tab so it'll be easier for you to remove it. You can pull it, and it'll remove it. Once the border is open, we'll work on the other sides. Once all the edges are loosened, the cp can be taken off and expose to the sponge inside. In the next step, we need to get the ink flow into the filter, so what we do is we use the long nose plier and open up the wall so the ink outside the wall can flow in.

Make sure when you do this not to damage the filter on the bottom. You don't need to remove the wall altogether. As long as the ink can flow inside, that's fine. Now, we do the same thing for the color ones. Step one get a cartridge protected—step two, cutting. For color one, we need to make an opening on those four walls. We'll use 150 grit sandpaper for sanding the top of the cartridge evenly and smoothly in the next step. We'll then use a knife to remove the hiding debris. We'll need glue. This cover is airtight, so do the sanding, make sure that the top can fit very tight, and make sure you sand enough things from the top.

You shouldn't see anything shiny on the top. If you see anything shiny on the top, you didn't sand it down enough. Then you can use compressed air to throw the debris out, or just like me, I am just using the tap water to wash it and ensure the filter is clean. This is the best time for you to get rid of dry ink concentrated on the bottom. We're going to apply a small amount of superglue on the cover. We do for the color one, we fill the center cover and form a letter, T. The center one is the one that's most likely to have air leaks. Then we apply a layer of glue on the upper edge of the cartridge.

Make sure you wear gloves while doing this. You can see it's a very sticky situation. Make sure you don't accidentally get any glue here, which is the air hole that will ruin the cartridge.

Then we can use a rubber band to secure the cartridge. For the outside rim, we look in for air bubbles, and we can add a little bit of superglue as needed for the inner walls that are too late if we see any air bubbles. After setting it up for a couple of hours, according to the superglue's manual, in this case, set it for four hours and make sure it's completely dry. Then we fill it up with the ink.

We're going to fill it to the top and leave a little bit of room for the plug. For the color ones, don't forget your color frequency. That's the color of the sponge. We will take it out, making T cartridges which they swap two colors. For example, if you see this manual, I show you the top is magenta, and your top may be cyan. If you follow it, you get the two colors swapped. If it swapped, it's no big deal, and get the ink out, wash it, and do it again. HP just reached a new law of bandwidth. They try to make the refill as hard as possible.

Now we're going to show you how to do unclogging. If you have a printer working, which I mean is printing, but the printout is blank, or the printout is striped, that means it's clogged. Which means you have air bubbles underneath. If you have a priming clip, you can do it like this, put it on the clip, and then draw some ink from the bottom. The air bubbles will be drawn with ink. I know not everybody has priming. If you don't have one, let me show you an alternative. You get a piece of paper towel—the white paper towel with some water. Then get a vacuum cleaner, you suck underneath which, I thought you're going to see lots of ink coming out. Besides those two methods, which is sucking from the bottom and because you get this thing airtight, you can blow one ml air from the air hole and keep the refill hole plugged because after you blowing the air pressure inside is higher, so you need to unplug the refill hole and release the air.

Your refilled cartridge will not show an actual ink level, so that it will show the old ink level like the black one, or it shows no ink level at all. Just ignore all the warnings about low ink level or cartridge in ink depleted. Whenever you see an error window pops up, click, okay, or dismiss the message and keep printing. You are okay as long as this ink indicator light is not flashing. When it is flashing, there's something wrong with your cartridge, maybe you broke the filter, or maybe there is something simple as there's some ink splash on the ribbon, so you'll need to wipe it to dry.

Take the cartridge out and reinsert it a couple of times. If this light is still flashing, then the cartridge is permanently damaged. Our first printout looks weird, it looks really dirty, and we try to use the printer's building function to clean it. We clean twice, but still, it has those weird stripes. Then there's an aha moment. We forgot to remove a piece of tape from the bottom. After removing the tapes and seeing the black is still clogged, we use the vacuum to suck a little bit more, and let's see if we can remove the clog.

You can see the result, there's a significant improvement of the black, and then we keep doing it until the clog is entirely resolved. The ink indicator will not tell us how much ink is in the cartridge from now on. It'll always show low ink or ink depleted, so what we do is we ignore it and click, okay, every time it flashes a warning. After you click, okay, the plain one will let you keep printing. Keep an eye on the printout and add the ink as needed. We print enough copies and still allow the printer to show that both inks are depleted. Now, we're going to fill it up to the max level, and then we're going to print and see how many copies can print from one refill.

We're going to put a green tab for every 50 pages printed. Finally, the ink runs out, and our eyes see how many pages we have. We have 400, and here's where it started to run out. We've printed 407 pages, and now we can refill the cartridge and print it again. If you're just with your original, you can be able to print 100 pages, and if you upgraded a cartridge to make it a little larger and you can print about 269 pages without a refillable sponge cartridge. If you do this spongeless, you'll be able to print about 400 pages.