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Thank you ghwellsjr for your reply. The printer sat for a while so I don't remember trying to print anything other than nozzle checks. That is the only I have printed since cleaning the print head. I will follow your advice this week. My last nozzle check looks hopeful.

My printer has set for a while and my yellow and PG black wasn't working. I took out the print head and cleaned it with Windex, hot water and alcohol. I gave up on filling my own cartridges so 3 of my cartridges are cheap ones from a reputable vendor on ebay. The PG black is one of my OEM...

Thanks for the link :). I'll check them out. In the meantime is anyone familiar with any of the pre-filled ink cartridge vendors on ebay? The prices are extremely cheap for a set of cartridges and the vendors have 99.5+ ratings.

Refilling my own cartridges isn't working for me so I'm looking for a good U.S. supplier of non-OEM pre-filled cartridges for my Canon MP620. Cartridge numbers CLI-221 Black/Cyan/Magenta/Yellow and PGI-220 Black. I have amazon, ebay and paypal accounts if that helps.

I also hope the worst is behind us. Your optimism payed off as I did a deep cleaning of pigment black and everything looks good! It will take a while for me to adjust to the fact that I don't need to pay a ton of money to print something. I'll follow your advice and try to print more. Thank...

History: I bought the refurb printer new from newegg last year. The cartridges are the new unopened original OEM set that came with the printer. This was my first attempt at filling them. Everything worked fine prior to the refill attempt but the printer had been sitting idle a month with the...

There was only evidence that the orange cap had been twisted off. I have no idea if it had been used but the guy does have 100% positive feedback with over 1400 transactions. I would like to believe him even though his wording was a bit "off". Either way I would like to try and get that...

My cartridge arrived today. I bought it off of a guy on ebay who bought the wrong cannon cartridge. He said the orange cap was still on it but when it arrived it was taped in place. Other then that it looks new. I tried printing a nozzle check with no yellow showing. I then tried to run one...

I tried purging the cartridge by sucking in water and forcing it out with a syringe for over an hour and I'm still getting yellow ink to slowly come out. The ink won't flow at all just by water pressure alone. I think I'll go ahead and order a new one as you suggested and be done with this...

Sorry for the late reply. I'm trying to purge the yellow tank. I'm running water in the outlet but it's not coming out the hole the ball was in. I can't really build anything with tubing so I need to find another solution that I have on hand. Yellow did not show up on the nozzle checks. All...

It is the original OEM cartridge that came with this reburbished printer. Sorry, I meant nozzle check. The weird part is that the printer is showing the yellow ink level as full but when I open the printer the red ink lamp is off for the yellow. In all honesty 3 of my cartridge ink tanks were...

I decided to go ahead and install my cartridges and see what happens. The printer recognized all the cartridges as full except the yellow which it didn't recognize at all :(. I tried cleaning the chip and contacts with alcohol with no luck. I tried installing the cartridge with the printer off...

I does look like a jellyfish doesn't it! It looks worse in the pic and it's basically a bunch small loose pieces. It's not one big ball of gunk. For a hole above the spongeless side would removing the ball with the included kit from chubs do the trick? Would there be a problem with having a...

Thanks again stratman! You have been very helpful and patient :). Since a picture is worth a thousand words I've uploaded a pic of the pulpy yellow cartridge. Maybe that will help us decided whether or not it is safe to try. I don't mind if my printouts are streaked until I get another yellow...

Help! I'm doing my first refills and I've hit a snag. In the yellow cartridge window I can see some pulpy looking debris. I did need to work the needle in and out a few times to hit the hole (no jokes lol). I was twisting the needle as I moved it in and out as it did it though. Is the cartridge...