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My resetter seems to quit working. How can I bypass the error message and force it to print when I know I have full carts? thanks

Outside this forum I have never met anyone who refills. There must not be a significant number or the manufacturers would make non refillable cartridges.

This is the Pixma ix 6520 with three color carts and two blacks. Only the color carts were refilled using the "three gray set" sold by Precision Colors several years ago.

When I bought a Pro-100 2 years ago I put my 6520 aside and have not touched it since. It had the color carts refilled with gray and I used it as a dedicated B&W printer. Tonight I wanted a B&W print with no color cast in incandescent light so I hooked up the 6520 , ran a nozzle check...

Thank you for the replies. I love this forum. I have been really lucky in refilling. Only three srewups in four years. Not bad for a clumsy 76 year old.

I refilled a year old bone dry magenta cl42 cart. My first 2 prints looked awful so I did a nozzle check on my pro 100. The magenta rectangle was completely white. Not a drop of ink, so I inserted a OEM cart and it now prints fine. My question is why didn't the print head "Burn up"? I...

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What is the difference between Standard and High print quality settings. High seems to be slower, but on a glossy 5 x 7 I don't see any difference in the images. Maybe I'm not doing everything I should be doing.

I have screwed up twice. Both times i didnt have the plug secure and ink leaked all over the inside of the printer. Be sure , by shaking the cart, there is no ink dripping before you insert it in the print head slot..

The advice I received was right on. My printer is now working perfectly. This forum is a wonderful place.

I put a leaky magenta cart in my pixma 6520 ( 5 cart system). I thought it had quit dripping. Now my print came out with magenta smeared over a third of the print. I turned it off immediately and haven't tried any thing yet. I hope someone can tell me what to do next before I really mess...

I'm using a Pixma 4920 with 221 carts and 225 chips. The printer is telling me my yellow is low but I can clearly see the cart is nearly full. Is this because the resetter didn't work? will it hurt anything to try resetting with it full of ink? If I just keep on using it without doing anything...

EXCUSE me! Its a Canon Pixma 4820.

I am using my Pixma 4280 for B&W only. I just replaced my opaque 226 carts with the cl-221 with 226 chips. Now my prints have horizontal lines about 1mm wide that have a slight bronze cast to them. Otherwise , they are beautiful. If there is a thread already covering this subject please post a...

Thanks. I'm old, retired, and prone to ask dumb questions about things that are new to me..

Aside from running dry and burning the print head is there anything else a re-filled third party cartridge can do to ruin the printer?

See my thread on my first experience with refilling Canons. I can tell you from my first time that you can wash old carts in plain ole-fashioned water with out any special formula. Mine were three months old . But, i was using water under pressure. The chips are made of copper and were not...

Canon tech non-support told me the printer was not designed for "fine art " paper. I knew that ! But things can be done if one is persistent. anyway the glossy prints are better than I expected. I'm sold on re-filling now for my other canon color printer.

OK , here we go with Word pad. I drilled the 1/8 inch hole exactly over the CL-226 label adjacent to the ball hole. I reset the carts just before filling I attached the orange clips to the bottom with a rubber band I filled the syringe with 7 cc according to the instruction sheet with the...

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