A920 cartridge cross reference

Well....guess you answered my question...I refilled the cartridges and now the

I have successfully replaced both Dell cartridges in my A920 with Lexmark made ones but there the tops have to be swapped as their shape is different on the two makes of cartridge. You have to carefully, minding your fingers, cut/lever at the join between the black body and the coloured top all the way round and the tops will come off. The Dell top can just be taped in place on the Lexmark cartridge then inserted in the printer.

For the black cartridge use the Lexmark 10N0016 cartridge and for the coloured cartridge use the 100026.

Just remember that if you want your printer to still be covered by the warrantee this probably shoudn't be done.

Sorry the Lexmark colour cartridge to fit the Dell A920 should have read 10N0026

Much Thanks..will give it a try...

Sean

Oh, you are working too hard at too great a cost!  Buy a Costco available IMS refill kit (under $17 w/ enough ink for 5 yrs.) and refill your own!  Refilling the black requires drilling a hole - drill supplied - while the color cartridge requires prying off the top but of course you have already done that.  No Costco?  Search IMS refill kits thru Google.  By the way I save used paper to run through the printer after over refilling to soak up the mess  and run cartridge tests.  I think that there is a moral here somewhere isn't there?

Like you Lilsheepck I refill my cartridges to keep costs down but I have had a couple so far, which have develope blocked nozzles. I've tried various ways of cleaning which seem to work okay when running cleaning and test routines, but coming back to the printer another time I find a blocked nozzles again. Hence the need for the occassional new Lexmark cartridge. Have you had this problem at all?

Also what is your procedure for refilling the colour cartridge as these seem to take very little fresh ink before overflowing into the other colours?

Brian.

Per help at the 800 number for IMS Refill kit-support, soak the nozzles in hot tap water in a saucer - 1/4" deep is ok - for up to 25 minutes, gently blot dry and try in printer; run various a920 AIO maintenance/alignment/test functions as many times as necessary to get things flowing.   Occasionally I have used the cleaner from the refill kit for 5-10 minutes w/ success.  I had more blocked nozzle problems - w/ black cartridge - toward the first few times after refilling.  Did I mention that my first black cartridge lasted me for 10-11 months?  I still haven't figured out when to stop pushing inks into cartridges; usually over flow them!  Guess one could put less ink in more often.  I did have a slight problem w/  overflowed 'red' ink getting into the yellow 'tank'.  By the way, I tested which colored ink went into which hole by using a wooden tooth pick - instructions were not totally clear.