Recent content by chas045

Haven't been on P.K. for years and then re: Canon inkjets. I have an old B&W HP laserjet 6P that has been unused for perhaps a year (or more) because I apparently ended up with a couple badly remanufactured toner carts. They smeared; but the actual print resolution was good. It has just been...

Thanks for the testing procedure. I will have to look up the freedom fill and cleaning soln. I remember reading about both, but its been a year or more. If you are still around, isn't the freedom fill a top fill hookup but pulling in from the exit port? I'll see how good my searching skill is...

I have been refilling canon printers with the German technique. I originally had a mp printer using cli8 carts but ~3 years ago needed a replacement and got a MX860 with 221 carts and when its purge unit seemed to get disconnected last fall I had to get a MX712 with the dammed black 226 carts. I...

I recently posted about my mx860 printing very poorly and the responses suggested that the problem was likely to be a defective purge unit. However I had left a question about the logic of this diagnosis that appears to have been overlooked. I am hoping that someone knows something about the...

Thanks for getting back, I'm in the USA east coast. I have used fax in the past but I would think that an email should do the trick almost anywhere. On those rare times when I am copying a multi page document (into a file, even more important), it would be very useful to have the sheet feeder...

It looks like my Canon mx860 multi function printer probably has problems with its purge unit (I'm actually waiting on a response from my newest entry and will probably re-post to be sure it has been seen as a new thought). I suspect that I may as well buy a new printer since they are not much...

Well, there is a heck of a lot of ink on it, but the printer still prints, sort of. I assume that I can just wipe the ink off the strip? I assume that ink being all over the strip must mean something?! Does anyone know how to easily check the possibility of disconnected lines directly below the...

I searched and found a nice clear 7 page thread about the purge unit and flooding the ink pads with liquids (water or windex etc) and that if the liquid didn't go down with pumping then it was clogged or broken. Also, liquids won't go down until the pump runs, even if lines are disconnected...

I will search on purge diagnostics. But, just a couple more points. I just dug out my other nozzle checks over the last few days from the trash can and can see that several of them have almost always very good or perfect pigment black bars and perfect first cyan bars, but like the prints above...

To reiterate a few points. Usually my pigment black does not give awful problems like either of the above prints. Usually I am just missing a few sides of grid segments and it gets better with a couple cleanings or perhaps just some printing. One thing I haven't mentioned before. I started...

OK I have a picture. Lets see if I am choosing the right code.

Can't be sure about refilling all carts, I am often changing as needed and in this case running out of carts that I think might be working well. Ok I have run your tests, but I am not familiar on how to transmit it successfully. I attempted a scan but I have updated my computer and it said...

By the way: another diagnostic point. Most of the time recently, if I see problems and do a clean and nozzle check and hope for better and continue with a second clean and check, the second printout for colors is worse than the first. The black is usually better.

Grandad35, I see you are online. If you see this, would you suggest best method for transmission of printouts. Will a scan work? or do I need to try a photo. I think the prints are going to be very faint with almost nothing on them, but I could be surprised.

I have an mx860. I have been refilling with Hobbicolors, german method for 3 years. Printer gets few pages printed every day or three. In the past I have had some clogs that were solved either by adding some windex to the foam rest pads or by removing the print head and rinsing it under tap...