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That was definitely an issue like 20 years ago with dot matrix printers. The only reason fast printing would have issues nowadays is if you get ink starvation. Sometimes with certain refills you get slow ink flow and on thermal printers this can cause ink starvation and eventual burnout or...

Patents, simply patents. It's the same reason why Canon printers in the US can't print on CD's even though everywhere else in the world they can. Epson has the stranglehold on those patents, HP I believe can print on CD's because they're willing to pay royalties.

What kind of ink are you using? Sometimes some unscrupulous merchants sell cheapo refills people get suckered into buying cause of price. They end up being dye black where pigment black is needed and these may have a tendency to bleed through the printheads.

Just another trick that'll quickly be worked around for third party manufacturers. I wouldn't put it past printer manufacturers to soon come up with a printer that won't print unless the printer can check cartridge serial numbers against a private database like they do with computer games and...

When you put the syringe on the print head you have to make sure the print head is out over the overspray or foam area, not the park pad. If the printhead is over the park pad it is sealed and pressurizing the nozzle will force cleaner and ink into the other colors and contaminate them and could...

Most people buy premade bins and get a sign shop to make vinyl stickers to put on them. U-line should have what you need in the trash can section, they have various styles and all you'll need is to get a decal printed for it. http://www.uline.com/Grp_220/Trash-Cans

The only other convenient CISS feature would be button reset chips. One thing I didn't like with my Artisan 50 after ordering the "auto reset" CISS cartridges was the fact that when you "ran out" of ink you had to remove the cartridge, press the ink replace button and let the printer detect an...

I have currently an Epson Workforce 30 with a CISS and previously an Epson Artisan 50, and set up Workforce 610's at work. I think too that success is all in the install. The one thing I do differently is instead of making the CISS tubes do all sorts of twists and turns I keep it as simple and...

This comes up almost every week. I'll post the same info. There's a couple reasons why there's not a lot of refill businesses around. For one thing every generation of printer that comes out makes refilling more and more difficult. This greatly increases the hardship for the little guys. And...

What kind of ink are you using? Sometimes the ink can have an effect. I know on Artisan 50, which uses the same head as the 1400, I got a slight bit of banding with a CISS, but only visible under magnification. It was pretty much perfect with OEM. Yours is clearly visible. I think something is...

If you can post a nozzle check vs printouts it'll give us a better idea of what's going on.

Well obviously then there are differences in the ink composition. I've never fully trusted IS inks because even in OEM cartridges it made the foam swell pretty fast and wouldn't flow unless I added denatured alcohol to the ink, and the color wasn't that accurate either. Although I do profile my...

So it is a pigment ink. Perhaps it's just cheap paper.

The ink foaming and not flowing when blowing out a cartridge is usually a sign that the foam has swollen. Similar problems occurred with the Canon cartridges of similar design. Most people assume it's a normal thing to go and purge and dry the cartridge when this occurs. I had better luck...

I've pretty much never seen pigment blacks feather. Something tells me that IS ink has dyes in it. Try doing the egg yolk test on the IS ink. Take a piece of plastic like a coffee can lid and make a small puddle of yellow dye ink on it. Then place a drop of the suspect ink in the middle of the...

I would stick with the tried and true glass. The plastic if it's museum quality wouldn't give off gasses anyways, since it's probably polycarbonate. One tip though, print out two copies, let both air out in a warm environment for 24 hours, and put both in the frame so if one starts to fade you...

Ok my Artisan 50 died on me. For some reason the yellow just stopped sucking ink in. Even after multiple cleaning cycles. Since my print needs have slowed down some I thought I'd simplify and get a Workforce 30. Well obviously I did install the CISS. One thing though to get a proper prime is...

I don't have Canon printers anymore. But it's easy enough to see for yourself. Look inside your printer. You'll see the printhead moves back and forth pulled along by the belt, all across the printer you'll see a thin plastic strip, look very carefully at it, you may need a flashlight. You'll...

Considering how consistently vertical this is it's not likely a clog. My best guess is since they seem to line up some try very gently cleaning the plastic timing strip. I used a bit of a cotton ball moistened with rubbing alcohol. Very gently clean the strip front and back. Then try again and...

I caught on to this early on, when I reported on the increased "cleaning" cycles of the IP4700 vs the IP4600. On top of the increased ink wasting cycles, they sinisterly programmed the IP4700 printer to go through even more of them than normal after ink monitoring was disabled. The IP4600...