Recent content by sbrads

I've since my 1st post read that all Win8 drivers will be installable/usable on Win10. Hope springs eternal.

Thanks. Nice to hear.

I'm still on Windows 7 64bit and expect one day to upgrade my PC and go to Windows 10. What are the odds of my iP4700 getting serviceable drivers? I don't mean will it print, as I expect there will be at least a simple MS driver, I'm more concerned about the fine colour adjustments, paper...

Not new info, but it may help someone........I've just had my first clog in about 5yrs of using my iP4700 printer, the yellow suddenly wasn't printing at all after a month or two of slight banding which didn't change with driver cleaning or Octoink refilling. The main cause was likely not using...

My iP4700 which uses dye refillable resettable 520/521 cartridges fits the bill, so I imagine the later Canon replacements would work, e.g. iP4850 or iP4950 with 525/526 cartridges, as long as there's a reset tool available which these all have. Not sure about any newer models.

IS inks on Canon PP201 Glossy paper isn't as good as OEM Chromalife on the same paper using an iP4700 - however, it can be good enough for high quality photos that have some resistance to fade. By that I mean if you store them either behind glass, in a photo album or even just chuck them loose...

There was a photo lab print test in a UK magazine a year or so back which included a 3 month window fade test with half the photo covered up to make any changes really obvious. The results for all the dozen or so lab prints were atrocious, all of them faded and colour shifted badly, but they...

What used to get my many refilled trashed HP printhead+3 ink cartridges going again was dunking the head nozzle area in a pool of boiling hot water for 5 minutes, then blowing ink out (i.e. lips over top holes) of the nozzles, dabbing with tissue paper and put back in the printer with a cleaning...

Those inner squares look identical to me. I've seen better similar 'illusions'. Here's one where the A and B tiles are the same shade of grey..

You can buy neat ammonia and water it down with distilled water. Homebase (U.K.) sell ammonia in the kitchen cleaning materials section. Distilled water Halfords or motor factors.

Yes, much the same as that picture, at least it was just after refilling. It's perfect at the moment though with +9 magenta. This seems to be the best fix, profiling won't help if the colours change 2 weeks after refilling. For now, I'll just do a greyscale test print just before a print run...

It's a file I've had for years, no idea where I got it from. I'll show it here, it's got a few jpg artefacts but that shouldn't matter. Oh, and it's 0,0,0 to 255,255,255 (but that's white so there's no ink used!)

I do a nozzle check every week or two, and haven't seen any difference compared to prints I made with the OEM ink when the iP4700 was brand new. This isn't to say there aren't differences, it's just not a good test for colour shifts, it's only meant for seeing if there's any blocked jets...

Update. After 2 weeks, and with the magenta level having dropped to about 3/4 full, there is noticeably less driver magenta level correction needed for good greyscales, +9 down from +16.

Thanks everyone. I might as well use up this refill, then either purge or buy a new cartridge later on if the next refill doesn't work better.