Recent content by inka

Thanks for all your comments. I also thought it was probably the cartridge causing the problem. I refill from the top and the cartridges are the original Canon which came with the printer. I have had the printer less than a year and have refilled the inks since the beginning, probably much...

Hello to all ink masters out there! Your advice would be most welcome... I have a Canon ip 4850 and have been refilling their original cartridges with quality compatible ink from OctoInkjet. I've not had any problems until now when, suddenly the large cartridge PGI 525 black starts to fade out...

Thanks for your help and suggestions. I will continue to keep an eye on the inks and make sure I do some print tests when I'm not printing so much. I'm hoping this will keep further clogs at bay. Still don't quite understand how this happened, given the care I take over the whole refill aspect...

Good idea - I'll keep for that next time... In the meantime, I've got the yellow to work! :) The printhead was obviously clogged. Here's how I unclogged it: I soaked the base of the print head in alcohol for a couple of hours, checking occasionally if yellow was coming out through swabbing the...

Thanks - I will try soaking it. Certainly won't be putting it in the wash. I'm just disappointed in Canon. This happened with my last Canon Pixma, but, having said that, it was a few years old, and the ink I was using was not the best. But for it to happen again with a 6 month old machine...

Hi I've been refilling these cartridges since buying my Canon ip4850. Having checked through this really useful forum, I just top fill and weigh cartridges regularly to check fill levels. I fill CLI-526 when it's 12g - 14g. This fills to about 20g - 21g before ink starts spilling over the...