What I learned fixing printheads & refilling ink on HP Officejet d145 printer

HP d145 Printer wrote:
> What I learned fixing printheads & refilling ink on HP Officejet d145
> printer is going to go into this thread.
>
> I broke a lot, spilled a lot, cursed a lot, and tried a lot ..... and I
> just want you to benefit from what I learned so I'll try to put it in this
> thread.
>
Just like I said.
> Please feel free to interject what you've learned. The hope is that this
> thread helps anyone who has an HP officejet d145 printer who wishes to
> refill seemingly expired ink tanks and resurrect seemingly dead printheads.
>
> I'll post pictures and describe the process and reference URLs on the
> Internet in subsequent postings. Stay tuned.
>

HP d145 Printer wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 03:01:23 -0700, HP d145 Printer wrote:
> BTW, before I realized what solvent to use to clean the dried ink in the
> printheads, I tried water, vinegar, isopropyl alcohol, and windex
> (ammonia).
>
> My hands were full of ink.
>
> Guess what cleaned the water-soluble ink off the best?
>
> Nope.
>
> Water worked just OK. Alcohol sucked. Windex (in combination with water)
> worked best. Vinegar didn't do diddly squat.
>
> So, here's what I recommend:
>
Buy a Canon printer and use Canon ink. Then you do not have to go
through this crap and waste your time.
> a. Use Windex (ammonia) solutions to clean the printheads bottom
> b. Use Alcohol (isopropyl) solutions to clean the printhead electrical
> contacts
>
> Why the alcohol for the electrical contacts?
> Cuz they're not that filthy (so it works well enough) and 'cuz alcohol
> dries very quickly so water conduction won't short anything out.
>

HP d145 Printer wrote:
> Here's what I learned the hard way for refilling the HP ink tanks for the
> HP d145 officejet printer.
>
> Don't drill a hole in the top of the tank like the refill kits recommend.
> Ignore that and just flip the tri-color and black tanks upside down.
>
> Simply drip high quality refill ink
There is none
> onto the sponge at the bottom
> That's it. Refill until the sponge is nice and soaking wet.
> A few paper towels will soak up whatever spills out.
>
What a mess
> BTW, yellow goes fast!
>
> And, of course, don't ever let the sponge dry out as it shrinks away from
> the sides of the tank and makes a huge mess when you refill it and takes
> days (perhaps never) to regain its former shape.
>
> PS: The ink from HP is water soluble so your pictures will be too. Also,
> the ink isn't archival quality from HP. Best to get ink that is archival
> quality from a printing shop which is extremely cheap compared to the
> horrendously expensive low-quality HP ink supplied as OEM.
>

meashershithead, the oem ink drinking idiot moron POS loser wrote:

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NO SPAMMING ALLOWED!!!

On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 08:20:07 -0700, HP d145 Printer wrote:

> On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 03:25:09 -0700, HP d145 Printer wrote:
> I posted a few dozen pictures of the HP #14 printheads being taken apart
> and refilled after a thorough cleaning ....
> I'm not used to facebook but I think this is the profile with the 60 pics
> http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1354783432

Drat. I don't think the facebook thing works even though I made the
pictures available to everybody. I need to figure out the URL better or use
a different free picture posting service that can handle 60 photos at a
time.

PS I'm not sure what all that stuff is from measekit and FB but I don't see
how it added any value so I'm gonna ignore them.

On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:48:33 -0700, measekite wrote:

> Buy a Canon printer and use Canon ink. Then you do not have to go
> through this crap and waste your time.

I'd like to ditch that crappy HP printer if for no other reason that I
constantly get a "scanner failure" message and HP makes it miserable, on
purpose, to refill the ink!

Which Canon do people recommend for home use that ...
a) Print lasting pictures (archival quality, colorfast, not water soluble)
b) Print to the EDGE of the paper
c) Allow easy refilling of the ink & printhead maintenance

Note the HP Officejet D145 does NONE of those three important items.

Which printers have these three basic printing qualities?

On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 02:31:46 -0700, HP d145 Printer wrote:
I uploaded about 60 photos to a new flicker account so that you could see
exactly what's inside an HP #14 printhead and so that you can see the right
way and plenty of wrong ways to open the cartridge up for refilling and
repair!

Let me know if you can see these pics as the myspace idea failed.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28335224@N06/

Hopefully, these 60 photos show you exactly how to properly refill the HP
Officejet D145 printer printheads without having to take them apart!

AFAIK, this is the ONLY place on the entire Internet with this type of
information and pictures (the only other places have you take apart the
printhead but I found out how to refill them without having to take them
apart).

Same with the ink cartridges as I noted previously --- you do NOT need to
drill a hole or remove the top tape of the HP #14 ink tank.

Check out the photos for the details and let me know what you think!

HP d145 Printer wrote:

On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:48:33 -0700, measekite wrote:



Buy a Canon printer and use Canon ink. Then you do not have to go through this crap and waste your time.



I'd like to ditch that crappy HP printer if for no other reason that I constantly get a "scanner failure" message and HP makes it miserable, on purpose, to refill the ink! Which Canon do people recommend for home use that ... a) Print lasting pictures (archival quality, colorfast, not water soluble) b) Print to the EDGE of the paper

Canon Pro9500


c) Allow easy refilling of the ink & printhead maintenance

None do but as long as you use Canon ink you will not have a problem.


Note the HP Officejet D145 does NONE of those three important items. Which printers have these three basic printing qualities?

On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 12:19:42 -0700, HP d145 Printer wrote:
> Let me know if you can see these pics as the myspace idea failed.
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/28335224@N06/

BTW, do you guys know how we can tell if the bad printhead is an
unsalvageable burned out printhead versus just clogged up (which can be
salvaged)?

Reasons you don't need to reply here:

1. WE DON'T NEED YOUR * ADVICE.
2. We like to mess with things.
3. WE DON'T NEED YOUR ADVICE.
4. We like to save money.
5. WE DON'T NEED YOUR ADVICE.
6. AND, WE DEFINITELY DON'T NEED YOUR F***ING ADVICE!

* ("Advice" in your case means useless opinion.)