Canon pixma ix6510 printing red lines all over the pages

MP640 said:

Don't buy the rechargeable cartridges as they are of far less quality than the genuine Canon cartridges. It's fairly easy to refill the Original Canon cartridges and reset them with a chip resetter. Search for "top fill method" or "German durschstich" in this forum.

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Thanks for the reply.

For some reason, although i checked on every website of my country, no one is selling the chip resetter for this model of printer. I checked that Epson ones have special software in order to do so but i couldn't find anything about that on Canon devices.
If i can this week, today or tomorrow i'll try to send the printer to technical support to see if it works properly without the CISS.

If so, i will go for the rechargeable cartridges alternative.

The printer model model number ix6510 indicates that the printer is made for Canon region 1, which is Mexico and South America. So you will need a resetter for PGI-125/CLI-126 cartridges. A Google search finds some Chinese suppliers like this one. I have no experience with buying from China, but maybe others have comments/advice? See this post and the following post about buying from China.

I have found that the traditional top filling method is the best for these cartridges, here is a thread with instructions. Note that the top filling method can be done in two different ways. I have found that the method described by mikling in posts #4 and #9 is the best for the opaque PGI-x25/CLI-x26 with the added step of using a wooden cocktail stick to probe the ink level in the reservoir to determine when the vent should be sealed.

The windowed cartridges of the PGI-x20/CLI-x21 type are more refill friendly. They have the same dimensions as the opaque cartridges, so they can be used in stead, if you transfer your chips to them. The chips are coded for both colour and type, so be sure not to get them mixed up. A chip from a magenta cartridge should go to a magenta cartridge and so on. Here is an instruction by The Hat for chip transfer.

Empty windowed cartridges might be found at Ebay or Amazon; the region of the windowed cartridges doesn't matter, as you will need to replace the chips with your PGI-125/CLI-126 chips.

Hello there again!

Thank you very much for the links provided, but unluckily, in Argentina, if we buy something from another country without being an importer it may take from 2 to 6 months to arrive (if the customs don't make it "disappear", of course)

Finally, i took the risk and bought the rechargeable cartridges for the Canon ix6510.

Guess what? Now, after testing it in about 10 A3 copies, the printer works perfectly!

no red lines, no spots, everything is fine.


Finally, I would like to ask one more thing. Am i able to put the CISS ink into those cartridges with a syringe, or is the CISS ink different from rechargeable cartridges ink?

Thanks again.

The quality of the ink used is important! Properties of the ink must be adjusted to at least suit either a thermal printhead or a piezo printhead. And that's not even talking about dye ink vs pigment ink!

"CISS Ink" means nothing, except it might be a colored fluid that comes in a 100mm (or so) bottle...

The supplier of the ink and their source is most important. And typically you don't know where they buy their bulk ink for repackaging. Heck,THEY might not even know who manufactures the ink!!

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "UNIVERSAL INK" FOR INKJET PRINTERS!!! Use "unknown" inks at your own risk...

turbguy said:

The quality of the ink used is important! Properties of the ink must be adjusted to at least suit either a thermal printhead or a piezo printhead. And that's not even talking about dye ink vs pigment ink!

"CISS Ink" means nothing, except it might be a colored fluid that comes in a 100mm (or so) bottle...

The supplier of the ink and their source is most important. And typically you don't know where they buy their bulk ink for repackaging. Heck,THEY might not even know who manufactures the ink!!

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "UNIVERSAL INK" FOR INKJET PRINTERS!!! Use "unknown" inks at your own risk...

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Thanks for the tip, i have just contacted the store who sold me the printer and they told me they use german OCP ink, which they claim to be a good quality one.

OCP is one of the recommended brands of refill ink. Other recommended brands are Image Specialists and Hobbicolors. I think there are more.

But using a recommended brand of refill ink is not enough, the ink must also be made specifically for the cartridges used in your printer, the PGI-x25/CLI-x26 cartridges. Does the seller stock all the types of refill ink or only a few types which they use universally?