Preventing 'Color-Mixing' While Refilling

When refilling a three-color (or more) cartridge, there is a chance that you can have the cartridge turned the wrong way and get the colors on the ends backwards. In other words, you might put the magenta ink in the cyan chamber. To keep this from happening and ruining your cartridge, use three toothpicks and insert one of them into each fill hole, deep enough to pick up some ink. Mark the cartridge with a marker or piece of tape to help you remember which chamber is which color.

Never be tempted to overfill. If you fill a color HP or Lexmark cartridge to the extent that ink drips out of the copper print head at the bottom of the cartridge, the ink is likely to run into the next chamber and mix with that color. For instance, you may find orange or brown printing in place of yellow. However, if you do accidentally overfill and contaminate the colors, simply print out a large area of the three primary colors, cyan (blue), magenta (red) and yellow. The contaminated colors will usually clear up.

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