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My final solution has been to abandon the canon mg6150 for BxW pigment photo printing and revert to my 3yr old epson r265 which does a much better job at higher res and with CISS using pigment inks made for this printer! Overall I'm rather disappointed by the canon and the hassle it has been to...

Yes that is interesting. As with you my dye inks print very well. Thanks for doing that! It seems to suggest that the flow is not optimized for the pigment ink - which would have more 'drag' than dyes - cartridges by default. I'm going to focus on making sure ink flow is perfect, I think I...

For what it's worth (since there might be a very small audience of pigment black photo printers if any at all) I thought I'd post some recent observations. I've tried various black pigment inks over the last two weeks. I've tried both OEM carts and compatible carts. All in various combinations...

Hi The Hat I have the image specialist ink on its way. I'll report back on that. Yes the conquer is good paper. At some point when I've got my process working I'll be sure to go for the 521's :) :)

Yes I concede it unusual to print photos with pigment black ink on a printer where it is used for txt. I debated it for a while. There are a couple of reasons why. I'm printing a5 booklets on a cream paper (300 print on demand copies, 10 each - if I can get consistent results) and I have yet...

After more experimentation I'm beginning to doubt my initial assessment. Once again I have a good test pattern with banding in mid to dark grey areas. Different pigment inks seem to produce different degrees of banding. Flow, surely, is effected both by cart *and* ink type? Might this be a case...

Thanks very much for your response. First, I think you are absolutely right about the paper warp! I was testing on a thinner paper so as not to waste. Let me explain in detail what I have done. First in was the OEM ink which printed on 130gsm paper perfectly as it should. (I'm sure but can't...

I have a brand new pixma mg6150. I'm printing Black and white images with the pigment black ink on heavy plain paper. At first it worked perfectly, then banding started to appear in dark areas only. Since the first original ink I have refilled with compatible inks, but now have replaced again...

Thanks for the advice =). I will use the ones I have til they die on me then try the OEM carts. I'm printing BxW photos on a 130gsm cream plain paper for small booklets which work really well with pigment ink but so long as the black is a deep black. At first I was dissapointed by the...

London - the kmp looks worth a try, as you suggest

No I bought it through lin exports - you can do a search on mg6150 (still a newbie so can't link)

Thanks. Fortunately the refillable carts I got hold off are transparent so no problems there. One unrelated thing is that I noticed with the compatible pigment ink I'm using, it isn't quite deep black as the canon pgi525 ink. I noticed you use KMP U from octoinjet.... does this ink match the...

The refillable work fine, though had I more experience I might have done as you say. I can put the chip back on the canon cartridge so I'm not to worried about wasting the ink - but I wasn't sure about the process of disabling the ink monitor since my previous chip seems completely dead. I'm...

I bought a new original cart, got the printer to recognize it, then I took the chip off, placed it on my refillable. Now the refillable is working and status shows ink is full. As it approaches empty, presumably I will have to disable the ink monitor before filling again. I haven't seen this...

I'm in the process of trying this with a refillable cartridge but continually get message that the cartridge is not recognized. I've been very careful with the chip but I'm not sure if its damaged. I've been placing the chip on the refillable cartridge with double sided tape. Is there some way...