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Well the cartridges themselves work fine in another printer...

Ok, I've scored an otherwise new iP4500. The person who gave it to me bought it cheap at the markets only to discover the pins that contact the black cartridge chip were bent/broken. Buyer beware etc. I was wondering about how to fix it. Whoever gets it will be using ink refills. So is there any...

Thanks for the replies, You guys are right that it is a sealing problem. I've temporarily sealed up the cartridge with a glue gun borrowed from a friend and it seems to be holding up so far. :)

Hi, I've been refilling the cartridges of my old ip4000 for several years with no major dramas, so I expected to have no problems with the ip3300. However the (standard) PGI-5Bk cartridge does not seem to want to hold the ink in the sponge and it leaks out fairly quickly. I've been filling the...

This is a bit of a newbie question, but what are the benefits of spongeless cartridges? (assuming they work properly)

Could it perhaps have used some cyan ink (and a little bit of the other colours) when the 3ebk cartridge was basically empty? We didn't print that many colour pages (maybe 10-20 and these were websites, not large pictures), but I do remember them having a reasonable amount of blue/green. And the...

Hey, I've got an ip4000 that I've had for just a few weeks, after a few pages printed in colour, I set it to greyscale, duplex and leaving all of the other settings to default (in win98). Now we've printed a number of pages of text in Netscape and Word (only in greyscale) since then, but for...