Can I refill older original HP60 cartridges that seemed to have dried up?
1192698
Usually when the tiny ink pad dries up there is little chance it will recover. They shrink and become rigid, so the ink might not even penetrate. The amount of ink is so small its not a big loss if you can't get it to work after refilling. But sometimes the dios are also no good..so its a 50-50 chance! Waste of time and product are at your discretion. I highly recommend these kits!!!
1701267
It will work with any cartridge that can be refilled. if you can find your cartridge for sale as re-manufactured it means that they have refilled a used one. The only difficulty is finding the hole in your old one to insert the ink into. It is usually hidden on the top by the label which I peel back to inject the new ink. Hp in particular makes it as hard to reuse the old ones. I recently cleaned my old one but found out they now tell you not to do this as the contacts get messed up which they did. If this is your first time using a refill kit wear plastic gloves.
627199
Yes but it is not recommended for at least three reasons off the top of my head. 1. Different refilling services will use different types of formulations for their dry ink powder. This can be a hit/miss situation with regards to quality. 2. If it is a "miss", there's the potential that it may damage your printer which leads me to thought number.... 3. Warranty. If for some reason your 3rd party toner supplier provides you with a bad or faulty cartridge or dry ink media, you will no be able to have HP repair you printer under their warranty protection. Bottom line. Technically speaking, yes, it can be done but it would be a gamble. If you want to take a chance, at least wait till the warranty expires.
229899
As far as I know you can. There are kits you can buy and or have a vendor that specializes in doing that. They test the cartridge then load it then test it again. I only bought some refilled units back several years ago but I have not for quite awhile. Wish you the best.
1114168
JMAC - Yes, I had an original HP 74XL cartridge that actually consumed one complete refill kit with it and started another before the cartridge failed. I credit the cartridge for the longevity but I also kept refilling it every 3 weeks so it never was 100% empty.
285968
you can refill them, the problem is the "chip" counts pages and Stops the printer from working... so you have to get new chips for each cartridge about $20 for new chips $40 for toner about $60; I tried rebuilt cartidges and the printer does not recognize the aftermarket rebuilt cartridges; basically Minolta Konica is saying buy only EOM! expensive... I would never buy another printer with page-counting-chips in it: HP got sued for their printers non functionality when the chip count said stop: they updated their software
326742
The HP cartridges I have filled with this ink work well. I would imagine, if refilled and unused for a long period of time, the jets may dry as with any factory filled cartridge. As another person mentioned, refill the cartridge at the first streaking or irregularity you notice in the print, don't run it completely dry.
1809765
If you save the old cartridge, you can refill it with fountain pen ink (note: not India ink, which will clog your pen's feed) using an eye dropper or syringe. They now also sell converters for this pen, which are essentially able to suck ink up out of an ink bottle and store it for use.
615134
It sounds to me like you need to contact HP support. I'm assuming you put in a genuine HP cartridge. You didn't say what kind of cartridge.
1615113
I didn't see any indication that it were refilled cartridges. I believe they are new. Work fine for me.
2268731
Mine is 2 years old and I have filled the toner cartridges several times....I use a local company who specializes in refilling toner cartridges...they find away to refill anything !!!! It might be that the original starter cartridge which lasts a very short time is sealed
968222
No... i did it and it worked great. I didn't need a new one. Worked very well. Still in use today. It feels like the was more in the refill than what came in the original.
550429
I spend over 80 plus dlls in brand new HP60XL tricolor and black cartidges, I installed them but after 2 months in the printer they are all dried up and useless!! So if you open them, you use them!!
1127368
You can always use refilled cartridges, but my experience through many HP printers is that they leak, are unreliable, and in the end you will spend more on repairs than the cost of purchasing genuine and new sealed in original box HP cartridges. I purchase them always on auction at reasonable prices for always quality printing and rare repairs. Your choice. Pay now or pay later.
25719
Truly a guess, but I've let a month go by with no deterioration, so I think that HP engineering solves this problem by doing an ink-feed refresh depending on the last printing date. This practice reduces the total pages that can be printed per cartridge but virtually eliminates any dry out problem.
1841517
I have had no problems with it resetting, no matter what the condition of the cartridges. The re-setter only knows that it has a cartridge in it not whether it is even got ink in it. I believe you can fill them at any point.
2179023
I have successfully used re-manufactured (refilled) cartridges. Although there is a trick to using them. After you install one, the machine will tell you the cartridge is "low ink". After a few pages it says it's out of ink and the warning light comes on. (Do NOT Cancel your Print Job!) Press and hold the Red "Stop" button for about 5 seconds and the warning light will turn off. The display will then show "unknown ink volume" or something similar. You are now good to print until the cartridge actually runs out of ink.