Refilling a printer cartridge

A printer cartridge has to be refilled with ink regularly with use. This is a very sensitive process and improper handling of these printer cartridges can lead to damage and render them unusable. All cartridges contain one or more ink tank or ink reservoir. You have to locate this ink tank. Some of the cartridges already have a role enabling you to refill the cartridge easily with the toner. But other cartridges do not have a hole. Such a cartridge can be filled by making a hole yourself and carefully closing the hole by burning. Usually, some refiller kits come with burning equipment to close the hole. This way you would be able to fill in the ink in to your cartridge. Newer cartridges have smart chips which disable them after their expected life period. To make you cartridge work past its lifetime, you need to replace these chips with a reprogrammed one. Such chips can also be found in many online stores or toner stores.
By: Sandeep Mahanthi

Printer ink cartridges and their types

Every printer needs an ink cartridge. And these cartridges differ for different types of printers. Most ink cartridges have one or more partitions of ink stored in them. Some of these cartridges also contain an electronic chip for communication with the printer. There are mainly two types of printer ink. They are thermal and peizo electric. All the printers manufactured by companies like HP, Canon and Lexmark except Epson use the thermal ink. The thermal ink cartridges contain ink reservoirs with a metal and a resistor with a nozzle. According to the signal sent, the resistor heats up the metal and the ink surrounding it vaporizes and enters nozzle from where it is printed on to the paper. All Epson printers use only peizo electric printer ink cartridges. They have a peizo crystal which responds physically with the signal sent and controls the amount of ink delivered on to the paper.
By: Sandeep Mahanthi

Ways To Clean Printheads

Printheads is one of the most important elements of a printer that is responsible in applying those marks or images to the paper. It is important to maintain it as when it gets clogged, the quality of the image you print will definitely suffer. Once you already notice the decrease in output quality of your documents, you may need to consider cleaning the printheads to ensure the quality of your print out.

Cleaning printheads is very simple. We can either try cleaning it using software or cleaning it ourselves. Most inkjet printers have options to clean it by using its software. For instance, some Canon printers can be cleaned using its software by going to Maintenance tab and select the type of cleaning you want to perform on the printer. This might be done several times to ensure you get the printheads clean.

Some opt to clean the printheads manually with the use of water or isoprophyl alcohol. The first thing you have to do is to remove the ink cartridges from the printer. You may use a small cotton that has been dipped on water or alcohol and rub it on printheads. The goal is to get rid of those dried up inks.

Once the process is done you will notice a better performance from your printer. Although be cautious as printheads may be made in rubber, if that is the case never use alcohol. Instead use water so as it would not dry up the rubber on the printheads.

How Do You Know When To Replace The Printer Drum Cartridge?

You may not understand how important your printer drum cartridge is but it truly is the heart of your printer. Each time you process a document and send it to your printer, your drum cartridge will transfer the needed printer toners onto the paper and will carry out your printing. Two major factors will let you know it is time to change your printer drum cartridge.
First, your printer will generally have a built-in alert that is designed to let the user know when it is running low on toner. If your printer has a digital display it will generally alert you in writing and with a sound that it may be time for a change.
Second, If the color of the printer ink is beginning to fade or you notice lines running through the printer ink on the paper, then these are pretty good indicators that it is time to change your printer drum cartridge.
The thing you will need to do is refer to the user manual in order to learn what types of printer drums are compatible with your machine. Once you have determined this you will simply need to acquire the correct printer drum cartridge. Additionally,  laser printer drums have a certain life span, and this is usually specified by the number of pages they can print before needing replacement.