Printer cartridge question: We bought an ink refill injection kit. What went wrong?

The refilled cartridges worked for a little while (10 pages or so) just fine, then the ink went dry and also spilled inside the printer. We did not fill the printer with ';after market'; cartridges. We just injected the ink into the correct holes. (We have an HP Photosmart C3100 series printer).


Did HP program the cartridges to ';fail'; when the printer somehow discovered the ink was replaced, instead of the cartridges? They are making a bloody fortune from these cartridges which don't last long at all.Printer cartridge question: We bought an ink refill injection kit. What went wrong?
Most of the refill kits are garbage and if you are using one you have to know what you are doing. Even if you refill the cartridges properly you are still using a lower quality ink than was originally intended. You can buy professionally refilled and tested cartridges with a replacement warranty only for about 50% less than the cost of original HP cartridges from several vendors online. I wouldn't use them while your printer is still under warranty in case of any failures. I usually only buy the black cartridges refilled because you are less likely to fail, and tend to have better print quality.





Welcome to the world of inkjet printing. HP could give printers away, and still make money selling cartridges only.Printer cartridge question: We bought an ink refill injection kit. What went wrong?
what went wrong was buying a refil kit, never put refils into a printer, always buy the genuine hp cartridges, I know there expensive but its worthy it, you get more prints, better qaulity and lrdd problems like spillages. I work for a computer/printer repair company and we see heaps of people come in with printer problems from using refills, some totally destroy the printer all together to the extent that they have to purchase a new printer all together and hp will not cover any parts or repairs if you are using non genuine hp catridges. Hp did not intended for the refil cartridges to fail or make them fail, its just hp dont build there printers to accept cheap non generic cartridges, they build them to take there cartridges. I suggest take it to a repair company or a printer company and get it cleaned and tested, and buy yourself a new cartridge