Difference between Pro-100 and Pro-10 when refilled

mikling

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Aside from the different types of ink that both these printers use, I am coming across users who really should be using something like a Pro-10 instead of the ridiculously priced low and so attractive Pro-100

What the prospective owners should understand is that with the Pro-100 more attention needs to be paid to using it when it is being refilled. I am coming across many commercial users who are too busy to refill early and wait for the empty red warning to stop them. Then they refill....and do so quickly. We've come to see the pitfalls in that strategy. No matter what you do, or how you do it, careful attention to cartridge condition must be done for the Pro-100 to obtain reliable use.

The Pro-10 on the other hand, is a different animal. If the dribble/stream method is used to refill, each refill essentially renews the cartridge with a slow backflush. That is why many users of these printers hardly encounter problems with these as compared to sponge based machines. We are nearly literally starting with NEW or near NEW cartridges each time we refill. One user of the 9500 commented to me that in 3 years of use, he never performed a head clean and has not run a nozzle check. His comment is..what is that? That could be indicative of something.....he refills with the dribble method.

With the Pro-100, each refill brings even with careful refilling, a little amount of degradation of the cartridge. If one runs down the cartridge till empty and quickly refills, the the degradation could be large enough to cause problems as fast as 4 refills in my estimation.

The above should be one factor to be considered when the two printers are compared and to be refilled.
 

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I have to agree, there are too many guys waiting far too long to refill their cartridges and are putting their print head at risk, then they scream O’ it must have been the ink that I used caused it to fail.:hu

Why they wait for the big red X to appear is beyond me, there are guys who haven’t got a lick of sense (Mountain men for want of a better word) on other forums promoting this sort of idiotic and stupid practice.

If they are using OEM ink and they want to get the last drop out of the cartridge then that’s perfectly ok, it’s only a matter of inserting another new OEM cart and just carry on.

But not if you intend to refill, it like playing Russian roulette with the print head, just fill your cartridges at the proper time, that’s at LOW INK GUYS !:thumbsup
milking said:
One user of the 9500 commented to me that in 3 years of use, he never performed a head clean and has not run a nozzle check. His comment is..what is that? That could be indicative of something.....he refills with the dribble method.
And Mike was not referring to me by the way, but yes it’s true the 9500 is a great printers !

Happy refilling guys..:)
 

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Hat, you got another one in your club. This other gent is involved in a camera club and had owned an HPB9180 before. He is so thrilled with his 9500.

The low ink warning is the kicker here. I will report back on how that warning is thrown up based on some experiments to verify what I am seeing. The LOW ink can be thrown up before the reservoir goes empty. It is also routinely thrown up substantially after the reservoir is empty on the 220/221/225/226 series. On the 250/251 and 550/551 it is thrown up after the reservoir is empty.

Something is telling me that Canon has fine tuned the workings of carts and are now more confident to throw the warning AFTER the reservoir is empty and not JUST WHEN it empties. They are now confident on the workings and can hit closer to the real real empty when the EMPTY red is flagged. I have new OEM carts running and I am monitoring what happens to determine how the algorithm works.
 
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I reset and refill PGI-9 cartridges with IS ink for my PRO 9500 since 6 months.
It is not difficult and I had no technical problems with this combination until now.
 

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