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No, I never refilled with Hobbicolors ink. For many years, I only used InkTec inks and I refilled using a vacuum chamber. I was refilling for many of my friends and I had purchased thousands of "virgin" BCI-6 and BCI-3eBk cartridges. I never had any problems with refilling until I started...

What exactly did you do to come to this conclusion? If your dye ink colors are not working, then it should be the other pad that is not working. I added a post #9 explaining what those two holes are for in the thread linked to in post #2 of this thread...

The idea to "close the printer cover and let the printer go through a cleaning cycle" is one that I promoted for years but it is not a correct method. The correct method is to manually command the printer to go through a cleaning cycle. The reason why so many of us thought that merely closing...

I used to favor Canon printers, mainly because their line that used the unchipped cartridges were very easy to refill. But now that printers like that are no longer available and all my old printers began burning out print heads, I made a switch to Epson because they offer printers with very...

Epson doesn't make a standard cartridge for this printer.

I don't know how to determine the number of images printed or how much ink each cartridge holds but I can run the numbers for the cost of OEM cartridges using Staples rewards and it comes out to be less than one third the retail cost. Here's how I calculated: First, you have to get a few...

So on average your cartridges are lasting about a year. Same for me. I can't see the benefit in refilling. Why don't you buy some empty cartridges from eBay and recycle them at Staples and get OEM cartridges for very low cost?

I'm curious: How often do you have to refill your cartridges?

Have you noticed that the rewards are only good for one month after you get them?

My last two rewards were good for only one month after issuing as opposed to two months previously. That means if you are getting $20 per month, the highest priced item you can get for free is $40 instead of $60. Just a reminder, you have to spend at least $30 (real money, not rewards) on ink...

Be aware that when a manufacturer says they will send you a replacement, they don't necessarily mean one of the same model and it could be one that uses different cartridges. Also, your problem may be related to the paper or which tray the paper is coming from so try different thicknesses of...

I use a similar technique except I shine a small flashlight through a section of blue color on a plastic shopping bag which makes the yellow appear more vivid in a dark room.

I have been using a WP-4530 for over a year now and I love it. I don't understand your concerns regarding printing photos. 1) What is the issue with forcing the printer to use black ink? 2) The OEM ink works just fine with any photo paper. 3) If you are using dye ink, what is the issue? I...

I finally got around to doing the test and the result was: The aluminum tape covering the air vent hole did not prevent ink leakage out of the air vent hole as predicted.

I think what is happening is that there are three sets of nozzles for each color. Each set emits a different size droplet producing a different tone. The Canon print head technology cannot control the size of the droplet so they need multiple sets of nozzles to produce different intensities of...

I think you may be right. Many years ago when I started refilling Canon BCI-3eBk and BCI-6 cartridges for the 5-cartridge printers like the iP4000 and the MP780, I bought hundreds of virgin cartridges on ebay because I was refilling for several of my friends and for a long time, I never refilled...

I don't know but a head failure on an Epson printer is a printer failure since you can't replace the print head. However, since there's no excessive heat in an Epson print head due to boiling ink like there is in the Canon print head, that failure mechanism is non-existent. I think the major...

You don't have any Canon printers that use pigment ink, correct? I think it is more of a problem with pigment ink. I have many BCI-3eBK cartridges that I have refilled that simply don't work any more and I assume the problem is the ink won't allow air flow through the upper sponge material...

You're sure welcome.

Failure of heads was one reason I have switched from Canon to Epson.