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Wick is a weaker word but not much different from the word pull. If you fill up a coke bottle with water. Flip over (upside down) and put the mouth of the bottle in a cup of water. You will see how atmosphere pressure keeps the water in the bottle from flowing out. Only when you begin to drink...

Ink PULLED out from the tank to replenish the sponge? I hardly can agree with this concept. Ink is not pulled out from the tank. I suspect a misunderstanding of how the tank works based on this word PULLED. Ink can not be pulled out without something else first. This something is AIR. There...

Don't you think if the sponge is so saturated ink will drip off from the outlet? I have seen enough instances that ink drips out of the print head nozzles because of oversaturating the sponge. Perhaps this is already concluded. I have not read the entire thread in detail. But by saying this it...

You must use a paper suitable for this application. I used Canon OEM High Resolution Paper (very cheap) and I did not have the drying issue. I have tried it on some Epson heavy weight paper and the result was simply a joy. The ink dried almost instantly. If your ink does not dry quickly it is...

Canon is testing the market with these cartridges that make it more and more difficult to reset and refill. If the consumers buy them Canon wins and we lose. But if people stay away from them Canon lose and they will see their market share drop. I definitely will never buy a Canon printer with...

No, it's not grainy at all to me. All Canon printers have more nozzles for the large black ink cartridge. The nozzle size is also bigger. This is really the trick here. It is able to print black and white photos without grains. The only thing you need to do is to get a spare large black ink...

You need to use distilled water, which is widely available. Hard water is very bad for the print head. But I don't print black and white using color cartridges. It is inconvenient and I can't justify almost twice the cost of color inks. Does the gray ink give you more gamut? Probably not. I...

Here is another test I did with a color image downloaded from the web and converted to black and white just for testing the proofing process: This one probably shows that there is a lot of room for improvement. But again this is just for a quick proofing. I did not spend much time in making...

I thought Pro9000 is a very fast printer because of its large number of nozzles for each of its 8 colors. I am not sure why it is slow when you print black and white photos. I sometimes set up my mp780 to print black and white photos just for proofing. It was fast and the all the gray shades are...

Hobbicolors always supplied 2" needles for me. All my needles from Hobbicolors are 2" long. If you are in the USA I believe you can oder syringes and 2" needles from the company.

I contacted Dave at Hobbicolors and confirmed with him that they have been through 4 different pigment black inks. Only the latest two were code named PMT-BK. The current PMT-BK is sourced from Sensient Technology made in Mexico. I remember they had one code named something -3eBK. It was for...

It has been reported, discussed and recommended over and over many times that the used OEM cartridges are your best option. You can buy used OEM carts on ebay and they are cheaper than new compatibles too.

Thanks for the excellent demonstration, Hat. To save time on making multiple passes I would rather print this kind of graphic in photo printing mode. Graphics is a special type of photographs and they should be printed by the way of printing photographs. Inkjet printers are designed for such...

The Hat, your latest print is done with all pigment based inks so you naturally have no bleeding problems. The issue was printing graphics with dye inks but with pigment black ink for the black text in the middle of the graphic. The black text ink bled because of incompatibility with the dye...

Lin, I do not disagree with what you are saying. But I do see bleeding on all 3 posts with differences in the degree of bleeding. What I am trying to point out is there are easy ways (cost you less in fact) to solve the problem and the bleedding problem can be eliminated. You of course can use...

There is bleeding too on the scan of post #38.

Lin: there is still some bleeding on the scan of your post #39. It is better but not without bleeding. The black text looks thiner, which means there is less amount of ink used. Perhaps this is why there is less bleeding. I don't really think this is a perfect solution. The easiest answer to...

I don't have an immediate answer to this question. I do not print such graphics like that. You should try to print with all dye inks. It is a common sense to me to print graphics (photos) with dye ink. If the paper you use is the cheap copy paper you obviously are not seeking much quality. If...

No, it will not mess up your printer. It actually works. It will print fine. But the text on the paper you get will be dye black in. It will smear when in contact with water. How I have done it, not just once but many times on many printers. Never had a problem. Canon's very old printers used...

Don't go there. Stay on the thread please.