Canon Pgi-9 Refill Instructions

CANON PGI-9 REFILL INSTRUCTIONS

Parts List: 1. 18 to 20 gauge fill needle. 2. Orange shoe clip from a PGI-9 cartridge. 3. Epoxy 4. 30 to 50 ml syringe 5. 10 to 15 ml syringe 6. Correct PGI-9 pigment ink.

Punch a hole in the orange clip right through the “O” in the word Canon on the bottom (a sharp awl or thumb tack will work).

Next get a 14 to 20 gauge fill needle (bigger is better) and poke it into the new hole you just had made and with the rest of the needle protruding through the silicone washer.

Cut off the excess needle with something like a Dremmel tool cut off wheel leaving about 1mm of it still showing through the silicone washer (less is better).

Epoxy the needle on the outside to the shoe clip. (Two part JB-Weld works great). This is not absolutely required but it will keep the needle securely in the shoe clip during use. Let the epoxy harden over night and you are ready to refill your PGI-9 and PGI-7 cartridges.

The modified orange shoe clip on the bottom of the PGI-9 cartridge is held onto the outlet hole with little hooks securing it on to the cartridge during refilling. Attach it to the cartridge to be refilled.

Draw 10 to 13 ml of the correct ink into the small syringe. The PGI-9 holds 14 ml of ink if completely empty so draw approximately 1 ml less ink into the syringe than you think is left in the cartridge you are refilling.

Pull the plunger of the large syringe down to allow enough room to inject the ink from the small syringe into the large syringe. You could draw the ink directly from the supply bottle into the large syringe but it is difficult to control the amount. Hold the large syringe with the ink now into it with the opening in the upright position. Carefully push in the plunger until the air is out of the syringe and the ink almost to the needle attachment opening.

Attach the cartridge with the modified clip to the large syringe with the ink in it.

Rotate the complete assembly 180 degrees so that the cartridge to be filled is in the down position.

Gently pull up on the syringe plunger approximately 1 inch creating a vacuum. You will see air bubbles come up through the ink. When the ink quits bubbling gently press the plunger injecting the ink into the cartridge. Slightly pull back the syringe plunger to relieve any pressure. Wait a few seconds for the pressures to equalize.

Detach the syringe from the fill accessory and set it down. Unclip the modified fill accessory from the cartridge and you are ready to put the refilled PGI-9 cartridge back into your printer. If you have been careful to not use too much ink and have allowed the pressures to equalize there should not be any ink spillage.

That’s all there is to it. The easiest refill method I have ever used. It is a modification of the “HAPPY FREEDOM METHOD” posted in 2006 for the CLI-8 cartridges.

The chip resetter you sell for the CLI-8 will also reset the PLI-9 except for the black and gray chips. However, the resetter has to be taken apart and the housing cut to accommodate the oblong ink opening of the PLI-9 cartridge and the tab which activates the on switch shortened secured to the housing with a miniature screw or rivet (not easy if you are not mechanically inclined). Another supplier has a blue CLI-8 chip resetter which is easier to modify because its on switch is configured differently. In any case presently the black and gray chips cannot be reset so you have to disable the monitoring on the printer for those colors and manually check to see when the cartridge is low on ink and needs refilling.

Go to this site for another set of instructions for the PGI-9 that was just posted today. http://www.nifty-stuff.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=6999