Recent content by cannonvictim

Thanks for the cleaning method,GH. Could you please let me know if I need to "evacuate the ink in it" when I remove the print head to wash in warm tap water. And how do you make cleaning cartridges? I tossed my old cartridges when I starttd having problems. Can a cleaning cartridge be made...

I looks like all colors are going down except cyan. I'm sorry if I don't understand the purge test that ghwellsjr suggested. Did I not already do the equivalent test when I cleaned the pads? It won't take long to do again if not but otherwise it would just be a waste of time.

When i started having this problem and before I replaced the print head, I put windex on both pads and ran cycles and repeated the Windex until the pads were both nearly pure white and I think the windex was always gone. Thus, I think I have tried what you suggested. I suppose it's now the...

Well, I got the Canon ink and put in new Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow. Still no Cyan prints. Clean did no good. Deep clean resulted in a streaked dark cyan band and very streaked light (very). Repeated clean test clean test test deep clean test etc. cycles resulted in the fact that clean...

I have been using refilled cartridges that I get from LaserMonks.com. They seemed to work well for quite a while, but I will be getting genuine Canon carts. as soon as I get near a store that sells them. I'll put them in and hope for the best. Anyone else had a problem with LaserMonks carts?

I had tried all the cleaning methods and they didn't work on my IP 5200, so I bought a new printhead. All went well for about 30 copies and then greyscale printing resulted in red lines. I did a check and the cyan was gone again. I had cleaned the pads with windex before installing the new...

Great! Thanks ghwellsjr. When it arrives I can do that. I will also get a bottle of Windex and soak the pads good and let it stand a day or so before I put in the new heads. That should take care of most things unless the purge pump is plugged/broke.

I ordered a new printhead from Canon. It only cost less than 60 bucks and looked like the easy way out of a dilemma. Most likely to fix whatever caused the problem. Now I need to search for a post telling how to dissasemble an IP5200 at this forum. If anyone has a link please add it to this...

I am ready to give up and go for a new printer if this is a major problem. i have some OEM ink that I will try, but if that doesn't work I have over a hundred bucks worth of refill carts that i will lose unless there is a Canon printer that still uses the CLI8 and 5BK refills. In other posts...

My old IP 5200 has printed several boxes of rheems of paper. For the last few days I have been trying to make photo prints from my digital camera and using a flat bed scanner with an old BW print. My camera prints have a deep yellow/orange cast and the black and white print refuses to copy BW...

Sorry, I fixed the problem. Found that the screw used to seal one of the vent holes caught the edge of the case. This is a new happening and means I will have to cut off a bit of the plastic where this happens. Cannonvictim

I got spotty black printing on my Canon Pixma IP 5200 so I opened the top door and front door and the carrier centered. I took out the pigmented black cart. and proceeded to refill it. When I came back the carrier had moved to the far right and refused to center when I closed the doors and...

I just wanted to update my original post in this thread. I have now finished refilling 4 of the 5 cartridges on the Pixma (I had a new dye black cart.). I only had a real problem with the cyan. It was caused by the original outlet plug never resealing. I solved it by sealing the outlet with...

Sorry, mikling. I didn't mean to give the impression that I thought your kits were shoddy. I posted a while back that I am ham fisted and was just trying to prove a point. I see why everyone goes to the trouble to get out the ball, but I have a set of drills of all sizes and a tap set in a...

Thanks for the encouragement SLR I used the thin strapping tape used for packages when I filled the PGI 5 pigmented black cartridge and it worked perfectly. I bought my refill kit from Precision Color that often posts in this forum. The kit came with instructions to use a hot paper clip or...