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Since I refill with genuine Canon ink, I haven't encountered many problems. However, every printhead will fail sooner or later—fingers crossed!

This is certainly so for the consumer dye printers. But in the photo printers the PRO-9500 (pigment) had a rather short living printhead. No idea if the PRO-9000 (dye) head was based on this one, but the ones of both the PRO-10 (pigment) and PR0-100 (dye) live much longer.

My MB5150 is my second too. The first one is kept in stock, I guess with what I know now I can revive it. Have a spare printhead also. Agree on the 3th party inks. I refill from the GI-56 bottles for the ink tank versions without any problems (except ink cross contamination sometimes due to...

If the counter was reset by the repair shop their tool worked and the printer is not blocked.

Don't panic. Get the chips right as @The Hat suggested and reinsert all carts. Clean the contacts (of the chips and where they connect in the printhead) with isopropanol. Canon printers tend to become crazy after several errors, driving users who fiddle with them crazy. Work step by step.

You should see more informative messages on your PC too (My printer app) I think.

There is only one type of printhead, so you can exchange them. Also observed "mud" at the nozzles, seems the wipers cannot clean all. Could be related to 3th party inks too. Anyway, after dismounting and wiping off the head underneat my nozzle checks were perfect again. So don't thing the head...

There is not much information about the Pigmera inks, in particular for Canon. Farbenwerk sells the same ink for all Canon pigment printers, so you would need custom profiles. With octoinkjet.co.uk at least we know the strong and the weak points - and they provide profiles for free.

I think all inkjet printers do it, but few publish when and how much. It is an inevitable part of the technique (piezo or thermal). Strange enough recently even our - most appreciated - expert Keith Cooper started to worry about the PRO 1000/1100 wasting too much ink. Inflation ?

The reviews and user reports of the Epson ET-8500 and ET-8550 are extremely positive, for office and photography.

The Koala 250g glossy arrived, the package is only paper and was slightly cracked. It is quoted 4 stars. I opened it and happily enough only the first paper was slightly affected - no problem for profiling. It is RC, but - as with almost all such papers - you can see the paper structure in...

Most probably, I ordered the 50 pack RC and cancelled the first order. Since ink (even 3th party or expired OEM) costs more, I am not inclined to use cast paper in the future. Although I made some very fair 35.5x58.4 cm posters on the A2 Canson 180g (pencil writable on the back) I found in my...

I've found a pack with 7 A4 canvas paper from Action. Took ink very well, but too small to wrap around a frame. I am now exploring affordable paper on larger sizes. Ordered this one: https://www.amazon.com.be/-/nl/KOALA-vellen-glanzend-A3-fotopapier-inkjetprinter/dp/B07HKGD5PY?th=1 But found...

I've found citations and allusions to facts and theories published on this forum too on this site. For me this - most probably AI - approach looked not very trustworthy exactly because you didn't know about when and where. Frustrating that AI steals your efforts, but it is a hobby, you don't...

This reminds me of the times I refilled Canon consumer printers with dye ink (the same category I suppose as the tested HP products). Both brands have the same printhead technology too. I managed with a lot of trial and error to maintain some printers for some time, and the average layman most...