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Well I have been on a Print Spree past few days. A real bender! But today a Print came out Yellow fading to Magenta. So I tried Head Clean, Deep Clean, took the Print Head out, tried to flush with Windex (Ammonia-D), it is now sitting on some saturated Ammonia/Isopropyl/Propylene Glycol/Water...

OK, I got complacent. Having switched chips from a original OEM CLI-42 Yellow over to a CLI-8 I have been using that cart with no problems. This time I just filled the Yellow CLI-42 of my second full set of OEM Carts straight with 3rd Party OctoInk and noticed this when I recently performed a...

I watched tutorials from Precision and another one. My situation may well have been water trapped inside the Air Maze, to be honest, or "Foamy Sponge". That was my first time flushing, so next time I will be more exact to ensure ink flow before taking such a risk and installing the Cartridges...

Wow, I wish I had read this earlier. Performed my first flush with a full set of OEM CLI-42 Carts recently. I THOUGHT I did an amazing job… used only Windex-D on all until every single one's Sponge was White as Snow. I then rinsed with Water and let them dry near the Radiator and didn't refill...

I can vouch for this. Cleaned out my 3rd set of CLI-42's this week with Windex-Ammonia D and only this morning filled them for the first time (I am a refillng newbie also, and only find myself able to do what I do with such finesse thanks to the guidance from the helpful folk on THIS forum)...

OK I have read all now. Forgive my flippancy at jumping in earlier. From my personal observation as a high quantity printer using the Pro-100S my experiences are as follows (the OP mentions hard power off - pulling of power cable/switching off at mains supply) 1) Hard power down results in...

Remember, we as Refillers get the most out of our pride and joy, yet isn't the official word something like "manufactured product to be fully functioning for around 8 cartridge REPLACEMENTS"?

Yeah that makes complete sense. I agree. However, like we discussed a while back, there's the Printer being "intelligent" and then there's OK, power went out, now I will run a 3 minute cycle just in case, well I don't know, what is the reason in such times as those? Of course, run the purge when...

Will read these comments later, but I got "told off" when I powered off my Pro-100. Yep, it was just another excuse to drain the ink cartridges by way of what I call a toilet-flush and sink plug-pull. This was when I needed to clean under the Print Head and Station thanks to The Hat's advice...

Hi, good idea re: bottom plate and roller cleaning. I read that suggestion along with the Paper Abrasion setting on Canon's forum, from a customer mind you. And I did use that setting which did work. However, as was stated on there it is only a temporary fix. The fact it is meant for thicker...

First set of refilled carts, I wanted to be extra cautious, so having read somewhere someone mentioned storing their Carts in an enclosed Tupperware Box on a shallow bed of Isopropryl Alcohol saturated Paper Towel - reason stated: to reduce chance of mold - I decided to follow this route...

Remember my issue? In an enclosed tupperware box is where I had problems. Probably was the layer of Isopropyl Alcohol soaked paper towel, but ever since that (overly cautious) fiasco I leave the lid (on the tupperware box) slightly ajar. And no fancy "sterile" chemicals. Working just fine thus...

My goodness, never want to have to do that again. Upon plugging in Printer I got the dialog "It appears you disconnected the Power Cable…" And then it proceeded to teach me a lesson. That was the worst purge ever! Took about 3 minutes, I just wanted at to stop. Running and running, blast blast...

I know, we just gotta "play the game". Thanks for the push, will resume the printer later on this evening :)

Been unplugged for over 24 hours now. Waited until it was in the center then realized I could/had to slide it all the way over to the left. With a torch (flashlight) I wiped up as much as I could. Prior to doing so, ran a Nozzle Check for the first time since setting it up a few months ago. Am...

I hope I am OK posting a link to an external site, but check this out: https://m.dpreview.com/news/7745750282/canon-launches-refillable-ink-printers-in-the-uk

Thank you very much!!

But how/when to detach the Print Head? We usually pull the plug when we do so to unclog/clean it, but in this instance? Please give me specifics. …Benefits of pulling plug would be no rush to get it all done as soon as possible before the whole mechanism goes back to its 'parking station'...

Thanks, how do I get access to "parking station", manually move print head over while printer is off, or like when we swap out ink cartridges, wait for the print head to move over when lid is opened? Likewise for/when removing print head in order to clean? Hopefully none of this requires...

Canon's Pro line, of course :)