Patent ID: 7207667

Claim:
An apparatus for refurbishing used ink jet cartridges, the apparatus including: a housing; a number of ink recovery stations supported by the housing, each ink recovery station including a vacuum sealing element that aligns with a printhead on any of a number of ink jet cartridges received in an operating position at the respective ink recovery station; an ink clean/fill station supported by the housing that includes an ink fill sealing element that aligns with a vent opening on any of the number of ink jet cartridges received in a clean/fill position at the ink clean/fill station, a maze vacuum sealing element that aligns with a maze hole on any of the number of ink jet cartridges received in the clean/fill position, and a print head sealing element that aligns with the printhead on any of the number of ink jet cartridges received in the clean/fill position; and a number of fill guns supported by the housing, each fill gun including a fill needle, a handle connected to the fill needle, and a start switch provided on the handle, the fill needle being connected to receive fluid directly through a respective ink supply line and discharge the fluid through a fill opening associated with the fill needle.