Recent content by BostonFern

It looks like the problem is now fixed. Thanks. Whatever you did, it worked.

I've not visited this forum for a while, and I'm surprised the color scheme has completely changed. For me, I see a lot of black text over less-black-background, for example, in the threads of conversations and the window I'm typing at this moment. I can't believe this is what everybody else...

I have a similar problem recently. A few days ago, I replaced the PGBK with a tank I bought from Precision Ink. It was empty so I filled it. The printing worked well. Today I can't print any black and white document. When I did a nuzzle check, the entire PGBK row was blank. My printer...

Great!!! I currently have a syringe without any needle. My cli-220 ink outlet is small compared with the video's. Is it a good idea to use this combination to dribble ink?

I saw in YouTube a filling method called "dribble method." It's the simplest refilling method I've seen so far. The drawback is one refill takes 2 minutes, which is not too bad at all. I wonder anybody has tried it. My question is - if ink can be dribbled into the cartridge, will it...

I don't have pumice stone. Alcohol swab got most of the ink out of my fingers. Eye make-up remover got almost all the remaining ink out. The tiny hole I used for refill was on top of ink chamber, not the sponge chamber. I sealed it with play dough, and can see ink in the ink chamber...

Thank you for your answer. Before you answered, I modified my question because I tried a different generic cartridge. So I will repeat my question here. This time I can print, although it complains the ink level is low because the light flashed when the cartridge is inserted. I tried to...

Yes, I found out my printer doesn't accept black in the place for cyan. I refilled a generic cyan cartridge with black ink. (I know it's better to refill an OEM cartridge, but I want to save my only OEM cyan cartridge for cyan later) The cartridge flashes when it's inserted, and I suppose...

Right now I'm not using any pigmented ink. Even PGBK cartridge is filled with dye black ink. Sounds like I can go ahead and put a black dye ink cartridge in the place for cyan.

Thanks for the warning. I currently have a lot of black ink and can refill a black cartridge and put it in the place for Cyan. I suppose this will prevent the print head from deteriorating, right? A more wild idea - What if I fill the cyan cartridge with water?

I had the print head sit for 12 hours. Put it back to printer and did a deep cleaning of PGBK by mistake, then a nozzle check. Then I did a regular cleaning of all colors and a nozzle check. This is what I observe. 1. Both nozzle checks show horizontal strips with magenta, while it was...

The nozzle check of my MX860 shows a lot of broken grids for PGBK. I refilled the cartridge with dye black ink and it didn't improve much. So I soaked the print head in original windex for 24 hours, with additional water to replenish the evaporated solution. Now, what should I do? Should I...

I have an old and dry canon PGI-220bk cartridge that had pigmented ink. Now I want to refill it with dye ink. I was advised to purge this cartridge first. The information I dug up about purging is to flush slow running tap water into the cartridge. The trouble is that the hole I...

Thank you for your advice. I print things from different applications. Right now, I'm using Adobe Acrobat to print a long pdf file. I assume it uses PGBK. I have an empty oem canon PGBK cartridge that's put aside for a long time. Can I simply fill it with the dye ink I have? Or do I...

I don't really know a lot about printer, so it's all my speculation... which may not be correct. I don't remember exactly what happened... My printing quality was good until one day all my black-and-white documents came out with a greenish tint. After that, the print quality dramatically...