Recent content by CackySA

Thank you for the guidance, I will try this and report back.

Stratman and The Hat, Thank you for wise words that will probably save me a packet of cash in the long run. I have changed nothing on the printer, these are the initial Carts that came with the printer. and certainly no overrides of any sort. As I said, this printer has not even warmed up...

Stratman, I cannot express my gratitude for your assistance here, thank you. I decided to splurge and get a single clean sheet of white paper and rerun the Nozzle test, see the attachment below. Are the fading Greys due to no ink being available? I took some screen shots of the ink levels as...

Thank you, this was a great help and I really appreciate it!

Hi Stratman and thank you for your comments. The printer software window shows 0 ink for all 8 carts. Below is a pic of the black cart, most look the same as this, although the sponge is wet to the touch. Well I am a cheap, I used the back of another test page from another printer. The same...

So I fired up the beast today and there is no ink left, all zero. The sponges are still 50% or more but the print is as below... Now I have to decide what to do, strip out the head and clean to preserve sealed with PGlycol, or replace the carts and let her go. I have so many unprinted photos...

Does anyone have the tech manual for the Brother printer above. Need to remove the print head and clean properly (only the black is clogged)? Thanks in advance :-)

I need to pack away my Canon Pro 100S, can anyone suggest a tried method to mothball the printer and preserve the print heads? I noticed that after a year of standing about 50% of the ink in the cartridges has disappeared. Or should I maybe just sell the printer? Thanks!

I am from Cape Town in Sunny South Africa. I have a Canon Pro100S and some cheapies also.