-> I've a very old BJ-200 Canon that I bought a refill kit for
-> 6 years ago, I may soon need to buy another refill kit.
-> The cartridges have an absorbant foam pad inside and you
-> need to push the nozzle of the refill into that pad and
-> not overfill to the point of loose ink in the cartridge.
-> On occassion my cartridge has failed and simply placing
-> the head against a hot wet lint free towel has revived it.
-> I bought the printer in 94, bought three cartridges
-> and a refill kit and suspect I'll never buy another cartridge.
-> Your mileage may vary.

 Particualrly if one has a HP color Ink Jet Printer 
I bleive the Canon like the Epson has a high Quanity Ink Orface assemble
as part of the Printer. Yuo can refill untill that Assemble goes bad. In
contrast the HP uses a Cheap Disposable Jet orface plate that is part of
the Cartridge. that makes their Cartridges only accecpt a finite number
of refills before flow erosion eats up the jets and severely degrades
the quality of the output.
Adn as you said, Yuor5 Miledge will vary  :-) :-)




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