How To Refill?

brother carts are completly sealed (totally plastic, no foil). Thats the advantage of the original carts: they wont leak when taking them out of the ink assy.
You cant refill without drilling a hole into the cart body. brother carts are completly sealed (totally plastic, no foil). Thats the advantage of the original carts: they wont leak when taking them out of the ink assy. You cant refill without drilling a hole into the cart body.

Harry,
I like your idea. Unfortunetly the suggested solution is quite dangerous because parts of the cartridge will be damaged. At the end ink will flow into the cartridge assy and stain important parts of the machine or mix with other plain ink colors!
See here how the cartridge looks like from the inside: (Choose LC-900 Doku) http://www.hstt.net/refill-faq/brother.h...
You can see the valve parts where the ink comes out. They wont be save anymore after you have tried to refill with in a needle :(

The advantage of a cart with a drilling hole is on the hand: You can leave the cart inside the machine when it shows EMPTY (and stops/pauses printing) Simply refill it by help of a syringe and close cover afterwards :)

..and no, the ink wont dry faster.
BTW this is the reason why brother industries has designed the inkjets to clean themselfes. Always keep the printer plugged in (power)! Set date and time, too. Otherwise the printhead will dry out!

If you dont use the printer that often, it should be better to use the original brother ink carts instead of refilling or useing thridparty carts. You wont save money because thirdparty ink wont meet the chemical mixture that the originals have (and what the printhead needs!). This mixture somehow keeps the printhead clean. Otherwise you have to do the cleaning procedure quite often which leads straight into the error 46 (unable to clean) because the wistinktank has to be replaced! Under normal coditions the waistinktank volume will last around 2,5 - 3 years) The worst case will be a damaged printhead with error 41 or missing colors or bad printout quality. Harry, I like your idea. Unfortunetly the suggested solution is quite dangerous because parts of the cartridge will be damaged. At the end ink will flow into the cartridge assy and stain important parts of the machine or mix with other plain ink colors! See here how the cartridge looks like from the inside: (Choose LC-900 Doku) http://www.hstt.net/refill-faq/brother.html#LC-900 You can see the valve parts where the ink comes out. They wont be save anymore after you have tried to refill with in a needle :( The advantage of a cart with a drilling hole is on the hand: You can leave the cart inside the machine when it shows EMPTY (and stops/pauses printing) Simply refill it by help of a syringe and close cover afterwards :) ..and no, the ink wont dry faster. BTW this is the reason why brother industries has designed the inkjets to clean themselfes. Always keep the printer plugged in (power)! Set date and time, too. Otherwise the printhead will dry out! If you dont use the printer that often, it should be better to use the original brother ink carts instead of refilling or useing thridparty carts. You wont save money because thirdparty ink wont meet the chemical mixture that the originals have (and what the printhead needs!). This mixture somehow keeps the printhead clean. Otherwise you have to do the cleaning procedure quite often which leads straight into the error 46 (unable to clean) because the wistinktank has to be replaced! Under normal coditions the waistinktank volume will last around 2,5 - 3 years) The worst case will be a damaged printhead with error 41 or missing colors or bad printout quality.