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I have my printer connected to a ciss. I took a look under the park position. What a mess! Where can I get a service manual to take it apart so I can clean this area? Every site I look at I cannot find the mp250. all the indexes have every number above and below this printer but it looks like...

YOU don't understand that this system works! I haven't replaced the cartridges for over three years!

Yes. once it's running properly, you must print at least one page a day just to keep the nozzles free and open. For those interested, the voltage applied to the nozzles on the print head is 5.2 volts. also the ink tank(s) have to be on an equal plane or slightly higher than the bottom of the...

today's date is april 28th 2013. I have a ciss installed in a canon mp250. I haven;t replaced the printhead in either the black or tri color position within the printer for a good three years. I print photos and plain sheets everyday and the color is great. Once in a while I do a printhead...

try this method. I use it all the time and it works perfectly. with your print cartridges installed in the printer, your silicone tubes located out of the way so the print head moves freely side to side. remove your breathers, one at a time and install a plug. take an empty syringe with a very...

in a ciss system how long has it been for you before you had to change a print cartridge because of burned out ink jets, or totally clogged cartridges? My system has been active going onto five years without a burp in the ink system.

since installing the ciss in my mp250 and getting it primed, I have refilled the tanks twice and have printed lots of photo prints and daily documents with black and color inks. I haven't replaced any printhead since december of last year [2011]

the top of the ink cartridge underneath the paper sticker there are air channels. follow the air channels to a place where there is one big circle. at the very center there is what looks like a dimple. a very small needle with a syringe will fit into this opening. fill your syringe with windex...

I got the CISS to work with the MP250 and I was watching it the other day when I was printing a lot of papers. What's it mean when air bubbles come out of the tanks? If the print cartridge is supposed to be of negative pressure, what's the air doing in the system? I did a prime on the system...

I'm sorry I made a mistake. The ciss for canon is via amazon dot com. they make a reference to three suppliers. BCH Technologies, Green High Tech and Boston World Limited.

What I have tried and it works is to put the print head into a regular coffee cup and add just enough of windex to cover the foil surface of the print head. put the cup into about 1 inch of boiling water on a stove and let the thing boil away for about fifteen minutes. Remove the head and dry...

color inks are dye based in that they dissolve in water. black ink is pigmented and the solvent they use has glycol in it which sheds water. a good comparison would be water color paints - they dissolve in water but oil based house paint doesn't dissolve in water even though they used the same...

There's a seller on Amazon that has all you need for a ciss minus the print cartridges. They have an empty ink tank, a 3.6mm drill for the cartridge(s), bushings for the cartridges, and [it's rather unique] needles that come out of the elbows and go down inside the ink cartridges. Best thing...

post is old but I found a site in the UK. if you are still out there, I'll go look and repost the url.

The printhead cartridges for both the above printers are the same. I went to a site that deals with CIS systems for Canon. I watched the installation of the heads and did the same to my MP250. When I set the printer to print a test page, it returned an error saying the cartridges are not...