Something strange happened to one of my cartridges

forzaL · Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 1

I registered on other forums too, but nobody seems to know what happened to my cartridge. I hope someone on this forum can help me.

I'll write my story in chronologic order. I refilled both my cartridges of my Canon MP160 with the same ink I used 3 or 4 times before. After a few days or 1 week I printed lots of documents, I estimate half of the cartridges got used. Than I ran out of YELLOW. I though no problem, this has happened to me before, one of the documents had too much of yellow- or orange. 2 or 3 weeks passed until I bought new ink to refill my cartridges, and when I opened the printer, i saw THIS:

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/7482/strangeo.jpg

Anybody have a clue what that might be? I don't eaven know what that is, so I could do a search on Google. I treied using the word "crystal" and "crystalization", but I found nothing.

Junior · Professional Support Joined: 07 Jul 2009 Posts: 122

I'm not sure what could have caused this. I wouldn't call it crystallization, but if you were refilling this cartridge over and over again, the sponge may have deteriorated.

The only logical reason I would imagine it would come out of the top like that is suction. Since that's where the cartridge breaths from, it could of pushed sponge out as it so called exhaled.

This would be the only explanation I would come up with for this problem.