Recent content by BruceW77

I am not sure what you mean. If you mean you will continue printing about every 2 days, then that would ensure your printer gets a good workout and the printhead is unlikely to clog. It also means the 480 hour timer will never expire, since it will be reset when the 120 hour clean takes place...

Oooops. Sorry Avolanche, it should have read "O.22ml" not 2.2ml. I have corrected the original text. Just to be clear, I am not saying the printer will initiate a clean if you have not printed for 120 hours. What I am saying is that regardless of printing or not printing, as soon at the 120...

Avalanche, the fact that the “action, movement” you notice occurs “before a print" is a good sign that the activity is a cleaning cycle. The duration of a cleaning cycle is typically 60s and uses a bit more than 0.22ml per cartridge (on average) or a total of 1.8ml across all 8 carts. As others...

A minor update on the parameter values used in the RUI scripts: Looking deeper into the script code, it can be seen there are 18 values assigned for the first (Colour) parameter. Some are duplicated (or triplicated), such as Yellow, which can be “4” or “13” and Pbk which can be “1”, “9” or “14”...

I did some simulation testing by substituting retrieved values with my own values to see what was displayed. By substituting a “3” for the 3rd parameter, a “?” is displayed to the left of the colour bar. I assume this is what displays if you disable the ink monitor. Substituting a “4” or...

Mikling, I assume you are using the graphical ink monitor normally associated with the maintenance tab on the printer driver, which also pops up when printing? I have found it to be quite inaccurate when the ink levels are low and as you have also pointed out the graph actually freezes at the...

You seem to be ignoring the note at the bottom of the table: *1: If an ink tank is removed for 60 seconds or longer, cleaning is performed.(Cleaning is performed according to the period of time an ink tank is removed from the print head, regardless of whether the ink tank is actually replaced or...

This thread relates specifically to the Canon Pro100S, but more than likely will apply to other Canon printers with 2 or more printhead groups. For anyone who has had a printhead clog on a Pro100S, they will know they have the option of doing a partial manual purge. ie. There are 2 groups...

So is this couple of seconds the golden 10-20s figure you mention in the 60 hour myth thread? If so, is it possible that the Pro-100 uses 60s? I did not send any print jobs as such to my printer between 17th June and 5th July, which is when I sent a nozzle check to ensure no clogs had formed...

My observation is that the Pro-100S is not offered in the USA, just the Pro-100. As far as I have read, the basic difference is that the Pro-100S has slight improvements to the WiFi. From what I can see most Pro users would not be interested in these features anyway. In Australia the Pro-100...

I guess I am showing my age. What I actually did was send a blank page from a word processor in order to invoke any pending purge. I discovered some time back that that is all that is required to invoke a purge. This way you do not waste any ink if there is no purge waiting and the purpose of...

Today my Pro-100S Gray cart reported empty. After replacing the empty cart with a full cart, I sent a Form Feed to the printer. There was no purge, which is interesting, because the Pro-100 User Manual says there will be a purge. However, as already mentioned in this thread, the Pro9000 Service...

Stratman, you may not have read my rather long winded series of tests I did on the Pro-100S and referenced in my post on Noctivagus thread. I did several tests where I removed cartridges for a timed period then sent a Form Feed to the printer. If a purge did not occur I repeated the procedure...

My Pro-100S is about 2 months old. It is still on it’s original set of OEM cartridges and was used daily for the first month, which is when I noticed the purges. I note that Noctivagus’s Pro-100S was about 6 months old when he reported the observations. I promise you my Pro-100S has a 120 Hour...