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    Cleaning and filling Canon CLI-42 carts for reselling

    I currently have a Canon Pixma Pro 100s and have lots of spare genuine CLI-42 carts for it. I'm in the UK so use refill inks from Octoinkjet (quality basically equivalent to US Precision Colors so they are very good!). I can buy empty and unmodified CLI-42 carts on eBay for about £1 each. I was...
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    Advice on long-term strategy for business currently using Canon Pixma Pro 100s

    Just been told by someone who creates custom ICC profiles that it's impossible to create one that will match (or even attempt to match) the output of one printer with another. Kinda seems strange you can't do this with an ICC profile though. Maybe I'm misunderstanding how they work but I thought...
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    Advice on long-term strategy for business currently using Canon Pixma Pro 100s

    Yeh I expect they import them, hence the recent price hike. About a year ago I was able to get them for about £100 each and now they are more like £180. Do you know if the Pro 200 uses the same printhead? If so then I would have thought the printheads would be officially available in Europe /...
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    Advice on long-term strategy for business currently using Canon Pixma Pro 100s

    Hello all, I currently run a small business in my spare time making custom Lego stickers and have x2 Canon Pixma Pro 100s printers. Because Lego bricks are specific colours I have had a company create custom ICC profiles that for my combination of (refill) inks, vinyl sticker material and...
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    Canon Pixma Pro 100s smudging issue

    My Pro 100s has started smudging the paper with black ink. Started out as a little bit on one corner but that got worse and then it progressed to also being down the side and then also across the middle of the page in a dotted "walking ant" line. I've tried the maintenace options such as...
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    Canon G5000 constantly jamming

    Aha just tried loading it from the top and it seems to work okay. Printer from the cassette jams it all the time though!
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    Canon G5000 constantly jamming

    I've had a Canon G5000 for about 2 years now and it's been a good printer overall with little trouble. The last few weeks however have seen it start to jam more frequently, to the point now where it's getting paper jams pretty much every time I try to print. I have to open the lid and manually...
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    Flushing CLI-42 carts with tap water (yes or no?)

    I actually work for my local water authority so know better than most what's in it. :D It's safe enough to drink but given the area of the UK I live in, it does have quite a high mineral content.
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    Flushing CLI-42 carts with tap water (yes or no?)

    I've recently flushed a full set of CLI-42 carts using luke warm tap water to clean them. This was after 100's of refills on the same carts and I noticed that the flow was getting less and less with a lot of them so time for a flush. They are all working fine except for the yellow one which has...
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    Cleaning print head - post cleaning fluid actions?

    I've used a cleaning kit to flush out my Canon Pixma Pro 100s print head after a couple of the channels kept getting blocked. I'm at the final stages of cleaning it but nothing in the instructions says what to do next before putting it back in the printer. Currently there will be cleaning fluid...
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    Canon Pixma Pro 100s: printing on Matte paper at standard quality blocks print head?

    The carts are genuine OEM but refilled with good quality replacement inks (Octo Inkjet in the UK). I've used the same carts for about 2 years now and first time I've had problems. Could be the carts though....with it being the yellow one I always get suspicious that it's a "yellow-jello" issue...
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    Canon Pixma Pro 100s: printing on Matte paper at standard quality blocks print head?

    I mostly use my Pixma Pro 100s for printing on glossy vinyl sticker material and so have the print settings on "Photo Paper Glossy II" and print quality set to "high". I've occasionally had issues with blocked channels on the print head but these are few and far between and can usually be...
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    Adjust horizontal print position on Canon Pixma Pro 100s

    Just to update this: The version available on eBay has been updated to 2023 and in the description states that the Pro 100 and Pro 100s printers are now supported. I haven't tested the tool myself however. https://www.ebay.com/itm/266023053375
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    Pixma Pro 100s - not printing in centre of page, adjustment options?

    Reply from the person who sells the service tool on eBay: My question: re Reset Canon ST v5204 Service Tool: It's stated that this works with the Canon Pixma Pro 10 but do you know if it works with the Canon Pixma Pro 100s? Or if there is another version that works with the Pro 100s? Regards...
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