The following is included in a typical ink refill kit: ink bottles, syringes and detailed instructions. Some kits include an air balance clip for balancing air inside cartridge to ensure proper ink flow. Some kits also include hand-drill tool to make a hole in top of your empty cartridge.

Refilling Process

1. To start refilling process, fill syringe with one of ink colors over sink or several sheets of scrap paper to prevent any mess. Different printers hold different amounts of ink. In most Epson printers, black cartridge holds approximately 17 ml and color cartridges hold approximately 8 ml. See instructions with your refill kit to see how much ink your cartridges can hold.

2. Before inserting needle, make a small hole in top of cartridge (one for each color chamber). The hole is at top of cartridge near label. Simply push needle through hole and press to bottom of cartridge towards outlet hole. It’s important to fill cartridge slowly so as to avoid ink from foaming and introducing air in chamber.

3. You do not need to seal refill holes since there are already breather holes on top of cartridge.

Crazy really, it first happened many years ago when I had this stupid bet that I could get more points than next guy. What that really means is that, "I am going to be up all night playing this game and will be totally incapable of staying awake in office tomorrow, unless of course I play game in office as well". That’s what computer games do to us. We become machines where food and sleep are secondary items to all else. Just keep on playing.............till you drop.

I managed to get through that episode with only a slight increase in my weight and a damaged back from not having moved anything else except my two fingers for a sustained period of time. The latest episode though has created havoc with my life in more ways than one and I am getting seriously worried about it.

I had been playing that game in evening for around three hours and had then gone to bed early for a dreamless and normal sleep. All okay and expected you say? Well, sleep was but when I drove to office next day things started to happen that rapidly woke me up to danger that I was in. There I was in my blue car approaching traffic lights when all of a sudden I swerved into other lane thus ending up stopped neatly behind this other blue car. Behind me, confused and irritated drivers with green and red cars tooted their horns angrily wandering what this maniac was doing. But I? I was happy in that I had managed to get colors arranged and all I needed was another blue car and then we could have a full line................oh, no, what is happening to me? I sat there for a while shivering as it dawned on me that I had entered game itself, it had taken me over.........I was a brick!

Yeah, and that was not all. I found myself one afternoon staring inanely at a house wall and following line of bricks along trying to sort out in my mind which pattern was best and which was not. And at my desk I found that I had arranged all files and papers in a neat pattern according to color and size having totally disregarded any format associated with importance of in-going, outgoing, urgency, etc. Extremely worrying to say least!