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Here’s my latest (and probably last) attempt at producing a test image to exercise both carts. It’s based on creating a swatch of 216 (6 x 6 x 6) colours using 6 discrete, evenly-spaced values of R, G and B (recognising that the spacing probably won’t be quite so linear when the printer...

Thanks, I'll give that a try. My PC stays on 24/7 doing other stuff, so I don't have any reboot delay, so rather than using the copy facility I'll set up a scheduled task to print your image, which should work just as well.

Thanks for the response. Yes to all of the above. Spare cartridges are clipped and are in a sealed container - except obviously for the one that's in the printer's right stall, which is the one that tends to dry out (PB/LC/LM photo cart). I'm coming round to the idea of either printing an...

While I normally use my Canon printer for photo printing, I'm still hanging on to my trusty old HP Photosmart 2575 for everyday document printing (not least because I still have a set of 6 half-full bulk ink bottles that work well for refilling the tri-colour and photo cartridges). I've found...

I print maybe a couple of days a week (Pixma) and I've been in the habit of powering it down between sessions. But I was interested to see a recommendation (not Canon-specific) in Fotospeed's "Art of Printing" ebook to "always leave your printer on in power save mode, as turning your printer on...

Thanks. I don't think I'm confusing profiles and colour spaces - I'm specifically talking about printing without a printer profile (either PS set to "Let Printer Determine Colors", or a non-profile-aware application). Re the "Standard" setting in the driver, the Canon help does explicitly...

A bit of googling came up with a possible answer to my first question. https://canoncanada.custhelp.com/app/answers/answer_view/a_id/1005770/~/windows-adobe-rgb-1998-installer-program Looks legit - although not a Canon website, the .exe has a Canon Inc SHA1 signature dated April 2010. Just...

I'm having trouble shifting my mindset from my previous couple of low-end HP printers to my shiny new Canon Pixma iP8750. Specifically, I'm confused by the interaction between Photoshop and the respective printer drivers re colour spaces. Photoshop offers the option of having either PS or the...

With your "rogue" files, what happens if you save as a .PSD and then reopen that in PS and try to print ?

If you're concerned about your printer needing exercise while you're away, there are any number of utilities out there (2Printer.exe, for example) that will output a page (image or text) to the printer at intervals (use Windows Task Scheduler, or whatever the Mac equivalent is, to define the...

I'm finally graduating from my entry-level HP Photosmart, with the joys of refilling integrated cartridges, to a Canon Pixma ip8750, and I'm trying to decide on ink strategies. I know that the printer is delivered with relatively low-capacity (standard?) OEM starter cartridges which won't last...

Thanks for all the responses. It would make sense that the missing nozzle check pattern is the Photo Black, as I know that corresponds to the left hand ink chamber in the cartridge - the corresponding chamber in both the Tri-colour and Photo cartridges (magenta in both cases) also prints first...

I often use the Tap 10 test to check for possible nozzle blockages. This prints a series of nozzle check patterns across the top of the page, one for each colour of ink. So, for example with Tri-colour and Photo cartridges installed, you get 6 check patterns for (in order from left to right)...