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A question, is it posible to align the printhead with those black inkslike i did it with colour inks? I haven't done yet, but my results are excelent. I use a profile for my printer. the one that i got for colour printing. And for me it works excelent, more or less what i see in my computer...

what have happened with my old ip4500?? i dont know! I bought a new printhead because i thought the old one had an electrical problem. but it was not the solution. I could not reach the solution because the printer do like is going to print but no drop comes out from the print head. the print...

I have a ip4500, the printer is out of service but the printhead is new. the thing is that I have bought another second-hand ip4500 and i want to use the printhead from the other printer (because I bought it new). But it is suposed that the new printer will come with a well-working print head...

Hello! Im going to write here my current situation. I am a photographer from Spain. I own a ip4500 since 2 years ago. The results gotten with that printer were always excelent (It was my first photographic printer in my life). three months ago it started my printing problems due to a clogged...

Hello mikling! how do you do? My name is Aaron and Im from Spain, Im quite new in this forum. I have read about your solution for a dedicated B&W printer. Im interested in convert my canon IP4500 into a B&W printer. I have a question: which is the method to flush empty original carbridges...

Hello ghwellsjr! Thanks for your answer. I have finaly decided what Im going to do. I'm going to fix my ip4500 with a new printhead (I will buy it on ebay). But I want to change one thing, Im going to convert my ip4500 in a dedicated B&W printer, with the kit that Mikling sales in...

Hello! My name is Aaron, I'm here in this forum since 3 moths more or less. i joined because I started to have problems with my pixma ip4500. It became cloggled, so I learnt lot of procedures to solve it. Finaly, after fighting two months with it, I couldn't fix it completely, and I bought a...

hi trigger! I think My printer (canon pixma ip4500) dont has that option from the maintenance menu. do you know another way to print this service test pattern? thanks!

Hi! many thanks for your advises. since now my printer will be ON all the time. thats a nozzle check, the last one I've just done: You can see a little little clog on the cyan. Maybe its not important. I think now Im going to keep on printing normaly, because the quality is perfect enough...

hello trigger, finaly i have purchased a second hand print head for my canon. That one has defect because it doesn't print from the black text cart, but for me it doesnt matter because i use the printer only for photography with heavy glossy paper and with the highest printing quality. The...

Hi! I tried what you said, trigger. No better results. I've also unscrewed the screws of the printer head , to clean it from inside. I'm going to do the process another time, only with hot water, and we will see what happen. what do you think about the ultrasonic cleaning process?. maybe i can...

I forgot one thing, the tap water from my city is not recomended for drink because it has Lime ("had water", thats the direct translation in spanish) so i think I have to rinse after with hot distiled water.

Many thanks to your advises an explanations, trigger 37. You are like a doctor in printers!!! ;) I did it before like you said, putting the print head down the tap with hot water. I had an impovement but still there are some clogs there. So Im going to do exactly as you are saying, with...

please could you tell me precise in which way you put the syringe on the print head where the carbrige sits? do you use an special tool for the top of the syringe?

this is a print form yesterday:

Hi! I'm posting a nozzle test that i 've just done: It isn't better now. I did a deep clean process (software) llast night (with the homemade clean carbridges) and this morning i tried to print a nozzle test pattern, and a photography, but it doesn't come any improvement. Now Im going to try...

Hi! My name is Aaron and I'm from Spain. im quite new in the refiling and fixing clog problems. I have a clog problem in my canon pixma ip4500. For a month I have been trying to solve it by severals ways, all of them found in internet. I've washed the printer head sevelar times (at the end...