I used a refiller on my Canon BJ for years, it was just fine. You printer is old, right, so it won’t really matter.
Try buying a kit on the web they are much cheaper.
wear plastic gloves.
also real canon carts are dirt cheap at ebay.com I see them there for a dollar each sometimes. order by the number on the cart.
I have a crappy Cannon BJC-4000 and its ink cartages, 'specially the black one, keep drying out. At first I just thought they were empty, but it was happening at an alarming rate, and I couldn’t keep buying new ones (them’s expensive!). So, after printing a few papers in navy blue, I decided to take action. I put a few drops of ordinary tap water into the little exit port on the cartridge. Printed out a big blob of black from paintbrush, and voila! Black! It’s only a temporary fix, and you may have to do it every time you print, but it does add plenty of life to your cartages!
astro, I don’t deny my crime, just its magnitude.
handy, your suggestion has been the best yet so far. I found the black cartridges at eBay for only a dollar twenty each and bid for 20 of them.
Is this really an old printer I have? I got it as a package deal with a UMAX scanner from MacWarehouse a few months ago. I assumed it was a contemporary printer, but just a bottom-drawer kind.