Recent content by lakanook

Thanks panos! Sounds to me like the MX850 is better for my uses as long as I can find a spare printhead in advance. The MP780 seems to have a bigger fan club though, which makes it easier to find instructions and help when we get stuck. But I'm curious... Why is it so popular still if many...

Just a quick update on this issue. I was waiting to have the time to give it a try, as when the gurus say it's a big job to reach the purge unit I thought it would probably take me the whole day... I was still printing with it - black only - until a few days ago, when it stopped printing...

My Canon MP780 has gotten more trouble than it's worth (likely to have purge unit issues as I found out in a reply to my last post, and then "Wrong Cartridge" a few days ago) so I went on the hunt for a "new" used one. Last time I looked around for one I couldn't find any, and now I found so...

Hi! My Canon MP780 had some streaks in all colors expect the black 3eBK, and after a little while, the colors stopped printing altogether. I did several cleaning/deep cleaning/printhead refreshing, all to no avail. I then tried to clean the printhead with Windex (soak for 5 hours and dry...

Thank you ghwellsjr! I will be on the look out for an MP780. I live in Sydney, Australia, so that reduces the choices. Not every printer model makes it down here. If anyone has other models to recommend, or a solution to one of the printers I already have, I would be very grateful. I actually...

I am new to this forum. I really hope you guys can help me. When I refill the ink in my HP J4580 it seems to print OK, but it only seems to work for 1 or 2 refills. After that, the black cartridge prints grey, despite doing 3 or 4 or more cleaning cycles. I complained to HP and they sent me...