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Hi

I am trying to figure out witch Canon iP xxxx printers can work only with a color cartridge. But I can not find any specific data on this subject,
But for sure I do knew that Canon iP 1300 works just fine with Cl41. No problem at all
But Canon iP 1600 1800 definitively can not work with just one cartridge. They can work in Single cartridge mode, but bought functional cartridges should be present.

Just curious. We do have on stock as well iP 1700 1900 2200 2500 MP 160 170 210 240. To much work to test all these printers on this .

So does anybody have seen some data on this issue
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All Canon chipped cartridge printers much have their cartridges in stalled to print, they don’t have to have ink in them but they much be present in the print head, but running a printer with individual dry cartridges will damage the print head permanently...
 

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But for sure I do knew that Canon iP 1300 works just fine with Cl41. No problem at all
Does your ip1300 work ...

1) Without the PG-40 installed?

2) If the PG-40 is installed but marked as empty, did you need to override ink level monitoring in order to coninue printing just with the CL-41?

3) To use the printer with just a functioning CL-41 cartridge - regardless of the status of the PG-40 - do you need to use a setting other than Plain Paper when you print text?

But Canon iP 1600 1800 definitively can not work with just one cartridge. They can work in Single cartridge mode, but bought functional cartridges should be present.
Do you mean BOTH a CL-41 and a PG-40 must be installed and not marked empty? If so, this is how Canon printers generally function. All cartridges must not yet be marked as Empty OR you must override ink level monitoring of the Empty cartridge in order to bypass the Empty designation and continue to print.
 

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Yes Canon ip 1300works with a single Cl41 cartridge. No problem at all.

That is why I am so curious to find out if there is some other iP printer wit that option.

Does anybody knew how we could get out firmware out of Canon iP 1300 and copy it to iP 1600. that could be an interesting trial. :)))

Adition !!!

Just played with iP Tools
So you can change iP 1700 to iP 1300 and now generic iP 1700 can work with single Cl41 cartridge
Also you can change iP 1600 and iP 2200 in iP 1200 and now these iP 1600 & 2200 can print only with Cl 41

But what is interesting now generic iP 2200 can no longer use CL 51 cartridge
What is the most interesting is that the same way you can turn iP 1200 & 1600 to iP 2200 in a case you have some CL 51 cartridges left that you do have to throw away since you do not have a suitable printer.
Unfortunately I have not been able to do the same thing with iP 1800 1900 or 2500. Stil looking how to copy iP 1300 firmware and send it to iP 1800
 
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Very interesting experiment. You have boldly gone where few if any have been before! :clap

Yes Canon ip 1300works with a single Cl41 cartridge.
Do you mean that there is no PG-40 cartridge in the printer or that the PG-40 is in the printer and marked as Empty?

Just played with iP Tools
What tools worked for which printers?
 

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Look for iPTool 1.14
Did you get it here? Seems it can also read and dump the EEPROM for the listed low level Canon printers.

@PeterBJ might find this tool and the web site interesting.
 

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I didn't know the iP tool, but I have tried a special service tool for iP's 1200,1600 and 2200 with success on an iP1600. This service tool and a service manual is found here. There also exists a Canon service tool that does very much the same things but covers many more models, it is the version 0700. It can be downloaded from this Russian site. BTW this Russian site now also has the version 4720 that is needed for some newer printer models.
 
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Did you get it here? Seems it can also read and dump the EEPROM for the listed low level Canon printers.

@PeterBJ might find this tool and the web site interesting.

Yes
It is the same thing

You can reset ink level for each cartridge if it is not locked.

Unfortunate with this tool you are not able to see how many pages that particular printer has printed

Have not seen the same thing for new Canon 541 cartridges and printers. That would be the most helpful thing I would like to have before I am going to do anything new special with these new models.

Any body has some suggestion??
 

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Yes
It is the same thing

You can reset ink level for each cartridge if it is not locked.

Unfortunate with this tool you are not able to see how many pages that particular printer has printed
The service tool v0700 might get this info. It seems the service tool covers Canon iP1200, iP1300, iP1600, iP1700, iP1800, iP1900, iP2200, iP2500, iP2600 printers models.

From the service manuals for MP160 and MP170 it is seen that service mode operations are done by push button codes like on BCI-3e/6 and PGI-5/CLI-8 printer models. For MP240 a service tool v 1050 or newer is used like on printers of the PGI-x20/CLI-x21 and PGI-x25/CLI-x26 cartridge generations. The service mode operations for the MPs 160, 170 and 240 do not have the ability to reset ink cartridges.

I have not been able to find a service manual for MP210, but it seems there exists an MP tool similar to the iP tools. See this. Sadly the download link doesn't work any more.
 
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