Recent content by printermayhem

Hi Hat, had posted this before, we refilled approx 400/500, 526 cartridges over the last 2 years and the last september out of the blue the cyan ink has started blocking (as mentioned before in previously) we weigh and measure the ink and every colour is totally fine appart from the cyan. My...

Hi folks, bought a new printer, ran the genuine inks and after my 3rd set of refils with GTI ink the cyan has blocked again on the new Canon head. Tried new inks etc nothing working, just printing very red and cyan not showing on the nozzle check, what could be causing this to block?

I am sure that the printer will leak in this position from the waste tank and spounges - depends how much it has been used. Almost impossible to transport leak free apart from horizontal in a desk flat position.

Yes I tried the CISS with Canon 4600 ip's and got poor results - the Canons are very sensitive as far as I can see to enviromental variables etc I see from you signature The Hat that you topfill, have you tried the german method?

Hi apologies I did post before and have had a lot of questions answered, but I feel this is OT enough for a new post It really is amazing the wealth of information here by the way!! My only problem is that (as far as I can tell) most people seem to refil for home / dometic use is that right...

How are you finding the top fill method?

Hello there, thanks for the response. I am now using Greentrees for ink and I am happy with the quality, I have also just purchased 2 new print heads. I have approx 150 of each 521 cartridge so will start converting them to 526's (have chip resetters for both). What is not clear is when...

Hi Folks, I have been refilling Canon 520 / 512 inks for some time and with the introduction of the canon ip4800 / 4850 we went over to refilling 525 / 526. This went fine for almost a year and then I think we had a bad batch of cyan ink or something (could it be an ink supply issue?) and all...