We now only charge P100 per Refill HP 953/953 XL – why? here is why:
to make the Cartridge work like an original cartridge is an effort in vain. HP sends non stop firmware updates over the internet, so that the buying of expensive compatible reset chips is just a waste of money.
REMEMBER: these chips serve mostly the purpose of showing the ink level depending on how much you have printed with your cartridges..
Now these chips are expensive and they become useless the moment HP has updated the firmware of your printer. These updates can be disabled but most users don’t know how (by accessing additional printer settings in the browser of your computer via the IP address of your printer). So what we do now is as follows: We exchange our customers empty cartridge with our empty cartridge, test it to make sure its not protected and then refill it with our 100% compatible ink (print quality is really 100% the same) using our refill technique (the trick is to not leave any air inside the cartridge chamber).
Now when you install that cartridge it will either say used or depleted cartridge installed: you will have to accept that by pressing ‘OK” and then you can print.
Unfortunately you wont be able to print until its empty but you can print about 60% of the original XL yield at really perfect quality – because then the printer will say: “Not designed as continuous ink system” – what a crap.
Anyway thats why we only charge P100 per refill – works still out much much cheaper than buying a brandnew original cartridge.
With HP 950/951 / XL (the 953 predecessor) this problem did not exist yet – I have 2 of those printers and they work just perfectly with our refills.