Genuine Stratitec Inkjet Ink Refill Kit Black and Color (595ml) - Universal ink compatibility Made in USA

Being a college student and needing plenty of paper documents to print out essays for classes, I found this product order to be the best of its kind!I have managed to get my hands on a hand me down All in one HP printer 1410v. Now this printer is nothing fancy and is actually quite old but it seems to have been satisfying the previous owner. When I got my hands on it and put it to the test, results were rather ugly. The ink was only printing in black and to top it off, the color was nearly fade. I was nearly going to abandon ship for the printer when I discovered how expensive the cartridges are!Lucky for me, the power of the internet is at use and with a little research, anything can be accomplished. I discovered this product on Amazon and figured why not. Thanks to the help of other Amazon reviewers, I was able to locate the refill holes on top of my printer cartridge and slowly refill each hole with the correct ink color. Too fast and the hole will overflow but too slow and it could take too much time to refill for an "impatient" person.The process was messy and not the cleanest but taking your time in the procedure will result with the most outcome satisfaction! After refilling each hole with about 5ml of ink, I cleaned up the area and placed the cartridge back in the printer for testing. First test page came out with rich black colors! Superior success! Then I printed something in color. This is when things went bad. Color was looking as bad as it did to begin with before the refilling process. I wondered why?!Strolling through Amazon reviewers, I discovered that ink cartridges eventually dry and the holes in the ink jets usually "clog" from dry ink. I never knew such a thing could happen but it made sense! I then wondered how I can go about to fix this issue? Answers were constantly brought back to every question I had and discovered that the process to fix the clogged ink holes required a hit or miss attempt.Simply place your ink cartridge in a small container filled with boiling water and repeat the process about 5 times for 5-10 sec each time. After the 4th attempt, the color of the water was seeping red, yellow, and blue and mixing together causing the water to form an ugly purple black.I then soaked the cartridge into rubbing alcohol for a few minutes and ended the process by letting the cartridge dry. Final results came up with beautiful color printing and original black colors. All was well and I have no complains. Takes time, research, and confidence. These 3 elements can bring one to achieve nearly anything!Highly recommend this product. I feel it may last me for my entire 4 years in college if anything! Savings on ink will be more than I could ever be happy for being at least $1G!

I have an HP Deskjet 1420 (it's an older model). After doing research on Stratitec and their inks, I bought this and I must say, I am more than thrilled. I know people thought it was necessary to have instructions, but if you google your printer cartridges, it's not hard to find the Stratitec instructions. I even youtube-ed it and found it helpful. The process took five minutes all together and there were virtually no problems with the ink or printing. I found it to be flawless and very comparable to HP 21/22 ink cartridges. I am very pleased. The only thing I recommend is to make sure you buy the item from Stratitec themselves. Any other place isn't guaranteed to give you brand name ink. The ink lasts several times filling the cartridges. I will buy again in the future!

I purchased the Stratitec Inkjet Ink Refill Kit Model number: EIR595, as it is described in their product specs, and I got "Nano Digital" ink , some syringes, and real needles that look like something you get from a drug dealer! I have purchased the Stratitec kit before and this IS NOT it, not even close. Im very mad, and frustrated because I needed this asap, and that's why I paid extra money for faster shiping but thats not all, after I tried to explain them that this is not what they advertise, I got an e-mail from them with this "if you like order a Stratitec kit, you need go to Stratitec kit store. Thank. Dinsink" I mean what is that???

It's ink. What else is there to say. I guess my only complaint, although very minor, is that the needles are ridiculously long, but it's not that big of a deal.Update 12/20/2011:I've refilled my ink cartridges so many times I've lost track. Eventually the cartridge will go bad and refilling it won't work, but I think I'm getting an average of about 7 refills pre cartridge. This has paid for itself many times over!