Refill instruction for Brother LC-970 and Brother LC-1000 cartridges color, black

The ink cartridges Brother LC-1000, LC-970 are refillable quite easily. The fill level control works with a mechanical lever inside the cartridge. This lever won´t make it harder to refill the cartridge and shows the correct fill level after refilling.

For refilling you need a cutter knife, a small drill, tape, hot glue, needles, syringes and ink.

The black and the color cartridge Brother LC-1000, LC-970 hold about 20 ml of ink each.

For refilling cartridges Brother LC-1000 and Brother LC-970 follow the instructions below:

1. Put the cartridge upright in front of you and cut the label which is fitted laterally (see pict.1).
2. Lead the cutter inbetween the two body halves (about 1 cm) (see pict.2)
3. Lever apart the body halves with the help of the cutter knife (see pict. 3)
4. Disassemble the halves. Now you can see the ink tank inside the cartridge.
   
5. Cut off the rear eyelet from the ink tank and drill the tank on this spot ( pict. 5 and 6). The drill hole shouldn´t be greater than 2 mm in diameter. You may not drill at any spot, otherwise there could be problems with closing the two body halves due to the hot glue.
6. Lead the needle through the square chamber below, where there is a small passage which leads to the main chamber in the lower right corner (pict. 7 and 8).

Caution...please do not puncture the foil !!!

7. Fill up to 20 ml ink into this hole. Close the filler opening after refilling with a drop of ot glue. Put the body halves back together and secure the lateral seam wit a piece of tape. The cartridge is now refilled and you can put it back into the printer.Now you can start printing as usual.