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.