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This doesn't solve the problem, but I think you're supposed to turn it off before you pull paper out, so you aren't working against the motor.

Are you kidding? Refilling my HP saved me hundreds and hundreds of dollars. With some care and testing, I have ink that is relatively fade-resistant (and UV-free home lighting!). To match OEM colors and improve stability I use OEM magenta and photo black. Happy as a clam.

In the future you might try taping the rice paper to a leading piece of ordinary paper.

Drink it?

Pigment can flocculate if the composition of the fluid is not quite right, and if that happens, your print head is toast. When you mix anything with pigment ink, you are in terra incognita. I'm happy for you that you have had success with it, but I still wouldn't advise it. I especially...

Of course, my printer does waste most of the ink. So I suppose if you are buying ink in liter bottles and don't mind the fuss, the risk, and the reduced quality, go ahead and reuse it. But for most people, it makes no sense to recycle. Ink will get old long before you get to the bottom of the...

No they don't get mixed. The printer deposits the colors as separate dots. And even if the dots happen to coincide on the paper, they were separate in the print head. Try reusing ink with a 5-color printer and then tell us what you think. If anyone ever mixes pigment and dye ink, that is...

I sure wouldn't reuse ink. It's so carefully formulated, and then you go mixing it haphazardly. You're likely to get mediocre results, and you are risking damage to the printer. Ink is so cheap that it doesn't make any sense to reuse it.

It sounds like Canon owes us an update. Are they aware of the situation?

Vincent Van Gogh has a fading problem. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150310123544.htm http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mystery-behind-fading-van-goghs-solved/ http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-03-09/why-are-van-goghs-paintings-slowly-turning-white

Except that I could make a print any size I wanted, as long as I could find a bathtub big enough.

I wonder if this is a good time to mention Gimp. I don't know much about these programs, and I can't compare them, but Gimp has met my simple needs so far. It also has advanced features, and the price is right. By the way, I have an old PS that I've never installed, as well as a recent PS...

Welcome, Gaetan. Buy what you want, and if you are satisfied, please tell us how satisfied you are with it. But please also be careful about negative opinions. This is a nice, friendly forum, and we like it that way. :)

Gaetan74, Mike provides high-quality products. He also works hard to provide outstanding service, and I am very willing to pay for that. Compared to the cost of Canon ink, and the total cost of printing including paper, I regard the small price difference to be negligible.

Thanks for the offer, but I'm making a bit of progress and I could easily waste a lot of your time. There's a lot of good stuff in what you and Stratman gave me already, especially if I follow the links, and I've made some changes already. I'll post back when I know a bit more -- and probably...

Seems like a good idea.

Thanks to you both for your effort. As both of you have pointed out, it is most definitely a problem of limited number of levels. Beyond that, I still have not found a setting that affects it, but I will keep trying as I get time. I must say, the industry has made great progress. The...

Yes, the subject has morphed, Mr. Hat, but I'm learning something. :) I like Macs too. They're purty. Purty but unrepairable. :D

CakeHole, thanks, I just saw your post. I'll have to digest it later. I think upscaling can be done properly, however, because I've seen it on an LG (played through an unknown DVD player, however). A DVD video must be upscaled somewhere in the chain in order to display it, unless I want to...

Thanks. That's quite a resource that I wasn't aware of, and I'm sure there are differences between TVs. Nevertheless, the explanations I've seen don't make any sense. Upscaling is just interpolation, and nothing about interpolation should make the image blocky. The resolution over most of...