Recent content by zack23

Hi all - My trusty MP610 printer is staggering on its last legs (cyan color nozzle is burned out, Canon driver has long been unavailable for Mac and the Gutenprint driver has become increasingly flaky, etc), so I've been planning to get a new all-in-one for some time. B&H just dropped the price...

Thanks Hat. Wish I could go for a Maxify, but I'm in a small apartment with limited desk space and everything has to stack together just so. Would it make sense for me to be looking for an Epson or HP printer if I need a relatively compact printer with a megatank system or refillable...

Hello all - After years of refilling my Canon printers (first an IP4000, then an IP5000, now an MP610), I think I need to move on. I've already replaced the printhead on my MP610 once, and now the cyan nozzles have failed again and finding a new printhead is out of the question. Plus, there...

I just poked around a bit on the CodeWeavers website, and unfortunately there are several references to CrossOver not working with printer drivers - the only printers that can be accessed are the printers already active on the host operating system. I think that running Windows virtually on an...

Thank you for the detailed reply Stratman! Basically, the problem is that Canon hasn't updated the official printer driver for the MP610 for years - the last officially supported Mac OS is Mountain Lion, which was 8 generations ago! The driver is 32-bit, and Big Sur is exclusively 64-bit (as was...

Of course! Thank you both so much for reminding me! It's been so long since I've run these commands directly on the printer that I completely forgot it was possible. Now I'm trying to figure out how to control the following options, which seem to be missing from Gutenprint: Quality of printing...

Hi all - I've owned and refilled Canon printers for a long time, and am grateful for all the help I've received in this forum. I've just moved to an M1 Mac mini (running OS Big Sur of course), and am trying to figure out my options for continuing to use my MP610 printer. The ancient Canon...

Thanks Hat - using a small bottle for refilling while keeping the large bottle of reserve ink in the fridge is pretty much what I was planning on doing, since it would be awkward to fill the syringes from the large bottle in any case. Stratman - I understand that storage in a "cool, dry"...

Hello all - I recently bought a large bottle of pigment black ink, and now realize it is likely to last me for several years. My apartment can get very hot during the summer if I am not around during the day (can frequently hit 95°F inside), so I'm wondering whether it might be advisable to...

Hello all - My wife's old IP1800 printer finally died, and I need to get her a replacement. She uses the printer for black text printing only, and for storage reasons needs a printer that is roughly the same small size as the IP1800 (the width must be less than 9.5", and the height must be...

Yup. The letters running down the left hand side of the regular nozzle check have been showing varying degrees of cyan contamination - sometimes quite noticeable, sometimes almost not visible.

It still shows something not right with the first Cyan stripe. There is subtle banding, and instead of being a solid color like the other color stripes if you look closely you can see a fine network of lines. Here's a high resolution scan of the stripe (when I check the uploaded scan in my web...

Ha! I tried the alignment because the standard nozzle check was still showing that odd banding pattern in the first cyan stripe. I cleaned the timing strip again, did the automatic alignment, and put in a brand new OEM Canon cartridge. I ran an extended nozzle check and it looks exactly...

Hello Stratman - Thank you for your reply. The uploaded scan of the nozzle check is an accurate representation of what the printed test looks like - the "banding" in the first cyan stripe is in the print, it is NOT an artifact of the scanning or compression. I cleaned the timing strip as you...

Thanks so much for taking a look. I was concerned about the way the first cyan strip printed with alternating bands, since years ago I had something similar happen with the magenta stripe in the nozzle check test of an IP5000 printhead, and it signaled the beginnings of an electrical problem...