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The right pad is for the color ink. You can see the color on your photo. Your color purge subsystem is not working. Continue to flood the purge pads until Windex on the right pad is drained. You may need to leave Windex overnight to work on the clog. Some member had remove the pads to clean...

I don't have Canon PGI-520/CLI-521 carts. But I use double-sided tape to hold the chip onto the PGI-5 and CLI-8 carts.

Yes, Windex is a ammonia window cleaner. But the testing, you can use water. Yes, the ink is supposed to be drain down to the waste ink pad at the bottom of the printer.

You need to check the purge system operation first. If the purge system is not working, no amount of cleaning or deep cleaning will fix your problem. During cleaning, the purge system sucks ink out of ink cartridges through the nozzles. If the purge system is not working, the cleaning is not...

Those are the purge pads. The square one is for the color inks and the rectangular one is the the pigment black. Deep cleaning is eating up lots of inks. That is the reason why I do not perform deep cleaning which does not unclog the print head any faster. Be sure to dry the print head...

Don't wait your ink by doing deep cleaning cycle. Can you verify that the purge system is working? If the purge system is not working, no amount of cleaning or deep cleaning will fix your problem. During cleaning, the purge system sucks ink out of ink cartridges through the nozzles. If the...

I use canned compressed air to dry print head electronics. Good luck. Blow air through the holes pointed by the red arrows. Not the inlet screen.

There are two layers of protection if you paid your purchase using credit card. You have a case because the printer is not what is described in the auction. Wait until what the seller said first.

PM inlet screen = Photo magenta inlet screen where the ink cartridge outlet port meets. I am not quite understand what do you mean by "slot"? The purge pads are the pads that the print head parks on idle. The square one is for the color. The rectangular one is for the pigment black. Are...

Put Windex on the PM inlet screen. Replace the PM cartridge. Leave it for overnight soak. Is the Windex stay on the color purge pad after close/open the cover? It should be okay if the pad is inside the square well.

Warning: Printing solid block of color while the nozzles are clogged is the quickest way to kill a Canon print head. The nozzles are not clogged. But the print head is clogged. The partial clog is at the channels between the inlet screen and the print nozzles. Are you using Canon OEM ink...

Don't take your print head out until you have try other unclogging methods first. Please post a nozzle check for us to determine the problem.

hardly used --> Your print head is partially clogged. Take the cartridges out. Put some Windex on the ink inlet screen. Put back the cartridges. Wait for a few minutes to let the Windex to soak into the print head. Do a cleaning and nozzle check. Repeat this for a few time. Sometime, I...

If the Windex does not stay on the pad, your purge system is working. Continue to flood the pads with Windex to flush the internal. No need to take the purge system apart to clean. To unclog the print nozzles, take the cartridges out. Put some Windex on the ink inlet screen. Put back the...

You need to check the purge system operation first. If the purge system is not working, no amount of cleaning or deep cleaning will fix your problem. During cleaning, the purge system sucks ink out of ink cartridges through the nozzles. If the purges is not working, the cleaning is not...

I had the same problem with my photo black on my MP830. It took me over 3 months on and off to fix the problem. It is a clog inside the print head. Location is after the screen inlet port and before the nozzle. The rubber washer is not the problem. I tried every methods discussed on this...

Printing large block of solid color on Canon printer with clogged print nozzles is the quickest way to kill Canon print head. This method may work for the printer made by other manufacture(s). But this method does not work with Canon print head.

Too bad, MX700 is not available at the newegg.ca for Canada. I was consider MX700 the past summer and decided with the MX850 which has the photo black and using the same print head as iP4500.

It is very hard to buy Canon printer which uses CLI-8 cartridges in retail stores. They cleared out those printers the past summer. You may be able find them on Craigslist and Kijiji classified ad. To check what type of ink cartridage used in a Canon printer that you are interested in, go the...

It is nothing wrong with the inkjet printer if you know how to take care of them. What is the problem with the two printers that you have? We may be able to get it working again.