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Get a place to work where you can spill a little ink and not ruin anything. Spread some newspapers down and have plenty of paper towels handy. Make sure you have good lighting. Here is what you will need: MIS-Syringes (10 cc) Bottom Fill Adapters (MIS-BADP) Bottles of ink for each color (4 - C/M/Y/K, 6 - C/M/Y/K/PC/PM) Rivets (MIS-Rivet) Use the Bottom Fill Adapter and puncture the clear seal over the exit port for the color you are about to inject. Only puncture the one you are going to put ink into. Unwrap the syringe, remove the protective cap, and attach a bottom fill adapter to the end of the syringe. Twist it on with your fingers, so it is tight. Remove the foil or yellow tab from the top of the cartridge. This will expose the vent holes to atmosphere. Make sure the syringe plunger is down all the way, then insert the tip of the bottom fill adapter into the ink bottle and pull ink into the syringe. Pull in a 1/2 to 1 cc more than is shown in the table below. (For the black you will have to do this in more than one step.) While holding the syringe vertical, pointed up, wrap some paper towel around the tip of the Bottom Fill Adapter, and carefully push on the syringe to remove any air trapped in the top of the syringe. If you push too hard, ink will shoot up to the ceiling, so be very gentle. Now that the air is gone, adjust the volume of ink in the syringe so that you have the amount shown in the above table. Hold the syringe tip over the open ink bottle and push the syringe plunger until you have the bottom of the rubber plunger at the right mark. Hold the cartridge being filled at eye level, keeping the cartridge oriented in its normal position. Insert the tip of the Bottom Fill Adapter into the exit port on the bottom of the cartridge. Don't turn the cartridge upside down. Push the tip firmly into the exit port and slowly inject the ink into the cartridge. Keep the cartridge at a 45 degree angle, vent holes up, for the first half of the ink injection. Then, for the second half, keep the cartridge level. Never turn the cartridge upside down. Put the cartridge down on your work surface or bench, and insert a Rivet into the exit port you just filled. Don't turn the cartridge upside down. Make sure the Rivet is all the way in, so the head is touching the cartridge. Use a paper towel and wipe any excess ink off the bottom of the cartridge. The Rivet will prevent leakage and cross contamination from other inks. Now go to the next color and repeat this process until all of the chambers are full. Be sure to clean the excess ink off the tools you are reusing before you move on to the next chamber. You are done for today. Let the freshly filled cartridges age overnight. You can put the cartridges in the printer in the morning or later in the day. This is important, don't try to rush it. The ink needs about 8 hours to get fully absorbed by the sponge. Any bubbles or gases will come to the surface and disappear. Next time you need to refill follow our Residual Foam Procedure. The above procedure is only for the virgin empty cartridges that have never had ink in them. A cartridge that has been emptied by printing will have residual foam in it. This foam must be removed before it can be refilled. Click here for additional refilling tips. Refill Volumes The numbers listed below are not exact they are approximations. Cartridge No. Virgin Empty (cc) Normal Refill (cc) SO20089 - C,M,Y 12.5 8.2 SO20093 - Black 16.5 11 SO20108 - Black 25.5 17 SO20110 - Yellow 12 8 SO20110 - C,M,PC,PM 8.5 5.5 T001 - C,M,Y,PC,PM 11.5 7.5 T003 - Black 33.5 220 T005 - C,M,Y 16.5 11.0 T007 - Black 15.0 11.0 T008 - C,M,Y,PC,PM 10.0 7.0 T009 - C,M,Y,PC,PM 15.0 11.0 T015 - Black 15.0 11.0 T016 - C,M,Y,PC,PM 15.0 11.0 T019 - Black 22.0 15.0 T020 - C,M,Y 12.0 8.0 Cartridge Equivalents SO20089 = SO20191 SO20093 = SO20187 SO20108 = SO20189 SO20110 = SO20193 Don't make a mistake on the colors !!

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