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4 November 2014

What is CISS( Continuous ink supply system)? Explained and How to Install Ciss tutorial.

CISS is a system for printer to enable basically unlimited printer without the need to refill a cartridge again and again. With this system, you can print as long as you have ink in the system.

There is a picture attached below. That is ciss ( continuous ink supply system). You connect it to a cartridge and then you can print as long as you have ink in the system.
I have installed CISS on my Hp 1050 printer with 802 Hp cartridge. Pictures are below.
For almost all inkjet printers you can install ciss. Look up for your cartridge if there is ciss tutorial of installation. Better YouTube it.

See the pictures below!

Installation of ciss tutorial/ how to install ciss tutorial.

1. Buy the Ciss Kit like in the first picture. I got mine for Rs.600 or $10 from ebay. Specifically read the compatibility of your printer and cartridge with ciss.

2. First make holes in your cartridge with the screw. For my printer I made four holes. That's where the pipes will go. Some cartridges may need to make new hole  because it my be completely sealed at first. Some may already have the holes open already. Or some may have to make it a little bigger. Some cartridges may have more than four colors and may need more holes depending on the ciss. Just look up the points where you will have to drill for the pipes. Make sure you drill the right hole.






3. After drilling the hole where the right colors are, you have to seal the other holes, so as to make it airtight. Mine didn't come with the sealer, so I applied some clue and made it airtight. Those yellow color plastics in the last picture are the holes that I sealed.

4. For those holes where the ink would go, you will need to put caps there. Those four white caps in the first picture will help make it air tight when the ciss pipes are put inside the cartridge.

5. Your initial set up is done after putting the white caps

6. Now, before you go a step further, make sure that your cartridge already has been refilled or is in new condtion. If it has not been refilled or is empty, just refill it and make sure that you use the suction tool to suck out some ink from the bottom of the cartridges. You need to do that every time you refill and empty cartridge.

7. Now fill ink in your ciss and keep the pipes at a higher level so as not to spill ink at yourself.

8. Bring down the pipes to a lower level. The pipes will be filled with ink  and slowly before the ink overflows from the mouth, a few inches before, put it in the holes of the cartridges respectively.

9. After putting all the pipes, put the colored Caps and close the holes in your ciss. (See the pictures)

10. Take a tissue, wipe the bottom of the cartridges softly. See if ink is freely flowing from the bottom of the cartridges. If not then, it is done right. Just put the cartridge in your printer back. If it oveflows from the bottom, just wipe the tissues and wait and put back when it doesn't overflow.

11. Now, take the object no @ (see pic) and put it where the printer cartridge can move freely about while printing. Different location for different printer. Mine is like in the picture.

12. Start printing. Thanks.







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29 October 2014

My Printer Buying tips after 2 years of experience with a failed choice. Printer buying tips!

# Printer Buying Tips if you want to save a whole lot of money!
I guess everyone comes at a point in time where they actually need to do a research to buy a printer. That's where I come now.
I have owned and used my ***HP Deskjet 1050*** printer for nearly 2 years now. And those two years have taught me a whole and now I want to share the information that I have learned to all of those who need it right now.




**First of all**, you need to check the type of printer you need.
  - print
  - scan
  - copy
The one I have can do all of those three things. And there are specific printers for it also. But for home user they come in different options or combined as one.




**Secondly**, in terms of functionality like
  - photo printing
  - photocopying
  - scanning
  - printing from laptop etc
If you are going to print a lot of photos better  buy the printer dedicated for it. Some machines do better job at photos and some at printing in their ink cost and quality print cases. You need to also look at the speed of the print. You may want to print 100 pages in 5 mins or faster depending on your work which can be done by faster printers. For me , my HP Printer is fine enough even if it takes 1min to make a full A4 size photo print.




**Thirdly** Ink and cartridges
The one I have can normally print at the maximum 100 pages of word documents without any graphics. But you will just get 10 pages of photo pages with the HP 802 cartridge (the one inside my printer). And another most ***important thing*** check for refillable system and ciss (continuous ink supply system). If the cartridge of the printer you have chosen can be refilled or the ciss system can be attached, then, it will save you lots of money in the future.
You can refill your cartridge when your ink runs out without buying the original costly cartridge at a fraction of the cost of the new one. Suppose new cartridge costs $10, then refilling will save you $9.5. You save a lot. You can install CISS and print 1000 pages without the need to refill after every 100 pages. Check the videos in youtube about Ciss and refilling stuff. ***Remember*** after buying the printer, the cost on cartridges will be the only thing that cost you more than any other.
There are different types of printer available like
  - laser, really fast, lots of pages
  -  inkjet, slow, 50-100 or + pages.
**Lastly** Good Luck
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