How to Refill a HP 22 Color Ink Cartridge

Refilling ink cartridges rather than buying new cartridges can save you money.

The Hewlett Packard 22 tri-color ink cartridge is used with the DeskJet 3930 and 3940 printer and the PSC 1410 all-in-one printer. The refill kit for the HP 22 color cartridge has everything that is needed to refill the cartridge up to eight or nine times. The tri-color cartridge refill kit should be used as soon as the ink cartridge runs empty to prevent it from drying up and not taking the ink.

Things You'll Need

• Newspaper
• Paper towel
• HP 22 tri-color ink refill kit
• Toothpick

Instructions

1. Lay out a piece of newspaper on the area where you will work. Remove the label from the tri-color ink cartridge to see the refilling holes. Lay the contents of the refill kit out on the newspaper. You will have three bottles of ink--yellow, magenta and cyan--and three syringes.

2. Place the toothpick in each of the holes to test the color. The magenta should be at the top center, the yellow at the left center and the cyan at the right center on HP 22 ink cartridge. Take note where the colors are so that you fill the correct holes with the same color.

3. Fill each of the syringes with each of the colors. Place the needle in the bottle and draw out 5 milliliters of ink by pulling up on the plunger. Do this for each color using one syringe for each color. Do not mix the colors.

4. Place the tip of the needle into the HP 22 cartridge. Press down on the top of the plunger slowly to fill the ink cartridge. Do this for each color. If the cartridge will not take the full amount of ink because that color was not empty and the ink oozes out the top, stop and wipe up any spilled.

5. Place the filled HP 22 tri-color ink cartridge in the printer. Run two or three test pages to cycle the cartridge ink before performing further printing tasks. Any document with some color on it will work.

References

• Refill Instructions: HP Cartridge C9352 #22