Looks like 2.000, all right. The 3.6 appears to be identical to the one I successfully downloaded from the Russian site, as mentioned in post #142.
Thanks for the links!
As of 15-February-2015, the Russian site linked above is partially broken. The links there are:
ST V700.zip - 19 244 кБ
ST V1050.zip - 381 кБ
ST V2000 - 188 kB
ST V3400 - 200 kB
ST V3600 - 966 kB ST_V3600_resetters.zip (199К)
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When I tried these links (untranslated)...
My wife and I have long been Canon users. We currently have a wide carriage iX6520 for her art work, and an MX892 for my general business use. These are our first printers with chips on the cartridges. As for us, we are retired computer professionals.
We previously had an ip5000 for her art...
Putting a functioning photo black in place completely solved the problem. True black in the original prints as purple if photo black is not functioning, at least for an MX892. Interestungly, slightly off-black portions in the original printed ok with a non-functioning photo black.
Thanks to...
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Thanks for the advice.
I did nozzle checks throughout the course of the testing I described, and all were perfect. Or so I thought at the time.
But I did one again just now, and finally noticed that - duh! - the photo black strip at the bottom wasn't printing anything at all...
I am aware that under most circumstances, Canon 5 color (CMY+photo black+pigment black) printers will use differing amounts of colors in addition to photo black when printing black in a photo. I thought I had seen the details some years ago in a Canon Service Manual for the ip4000, but no, it's...