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I haven't been following the inkjet market recently because my old Pixma MP540 is still going strong for my needs, but a friend asked me to look at some models for him. Does anyone know why printer resolution dropped in recent years? 🤔 I mean my Pixma is at least 4800x2400 dpi for printing and...

Wow, thanks for your effort Grandad. I haven't heard about kogation (and I tend to read here a lot). Will take a closer look and try some soaking and Windex with ammonia? But isn't ammonia corrosive - even in small amounts?

Sorry, this is the farthest my scanner can go. 1200dpi (probably interpolated) Almost dot-like but not enough...either way I was wondering what your experience is telling you. Could it be a clog? Could it be ink-flow? Can any clog be unclogged with enough soaking? There is no ink-residue...

http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/7742/scan1202190001.gif here is the scanned nozzle check I did a print head alignment after it and the cyan and magenta seemed better but dye-black is the same. Will dilute the ink with a few drops of water in the cartridges. Could it be air inside the...

InkTec pigment black was not good. I tried it early on 2 years ago and haven't used it since then. My dye inks from InkTec were fine before, I'm not sure why my dye black got strange, maybe I didn't print enough or ink aging over time because I bought a large batch. My ink is about 6 months old...

The new nozzle check. http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/2069/scan1202170001.jpg I washed the printhead very carefully (also soaked it for 24h), also saw this interesting link http://www.pcug.org.au/boesen/print_head/cleaning.htm . The check at first was better, but after 24h in the printer...

Thanks for the ideas. I will give it a rinse again and post results!

After 2+ years of using my Pixma MP540 I noticed a strange problem with my nozzle checks lately. I'm refilling my CLI-521 tanks with InkTec ink and I'm really happy with the results but my dye-black appears kinda strange. http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/4171/scan1202050002.jpg (zoom in for the...

My Canon printer doesn't automatically initiate cleaning cycles if not in use. I almost always keep it on so I can use the scanner (Pixma series). When I finish printing and not print for about a minute, it always locks it's head, so it doesn't matter if it's on or off. The head is still parked...

Yes, as I mentioned it in other posts. Ink refilling is not so easy as it seems. :D Everything is OK with colors, beautiful prints, but this black is on my nerves. Will try your method, hope it does not react and clog something. 10x!!! Edit: It worked - the results are better. 100x!

I recently refilled my MP540 cartriges and everythink is OK - no leaking, the color cartridges work perfectly fine but I have a problem with the black pigment one. I refilled it with pigment ink, I think it's a quality one. http://i25.tinypic.com/hvcd2f.jpg I can print text, but when I print...

Can someone tried InkTec compatible cartridges for cli-521? http://inktec.com/english/news/new_detail.asp?sn=72&i=0

OK I just tried adding more magenta (+10 and +30 on the scale in the drivers) but Canon's printing software Easy-PhotoPrint EX was already running and I thought of that only after printing 2 more samples of a photo. They look the same as if I haven't changed magenta at all. So I will have to try...

@ pharmacist - I used InkTec ( http://inktec.com/ ) new inks for Cli-521. The colors are great actually (I'm a newbie but seem pretty much almost exactly the same as original). The colors are almost flushed I think, I was using the old colours untill almost dry in the tank area, and the new...

I recently filled my Canon printer with new 3rd party ink. I really like the results overall. I have printed a couple of test photos with the original Canon Cli-521 ink and now I printed one of the photos with the new ink. The photo is great but compared to the original ink is a little bluish...