Recent content by hford02

I kill these printers by printing 1500 pages of high color labels on 110lb cardstock every week. We've been doing this for almost nine years (www.bestdips.com) . Generally the printheads go but sometimes the paper rollers or parer sensors. I have four printers in the shed right now an...

Good luck with refilling tanks --- generic carts are so cheap it doesn't seem worth the effort to me anymore..... and you can really screw up you heads if they don't flow right.

Some of the generics that I've used have shown them as identical and I know I've used both in an i560 ... my guess is that it was a model number change to make the older ones obsolete so owners of the older printers would replace a perfectly good printer because the inks were harder to find...

I agree about the i560's but they're getting hard to find now and the new ip3000 is just about as cheap with tons more features and the same ink carts. I'm using the ip4000 right now and get great results. If you're a printer killer like me then I'd get the newest printers still using the...

I wear out at least 2 canons a year and just bought the ip4000 as well. I like this printer a lot because the power button is on the corner so the cat won't turn it off when he jumps on it. We print 1200-1500 pages of color every week and after trying every kind of inkjet, dye-sub and laser...