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    Best non OEM Blank carts in Europe ?

    Hi Friend, The Auth service centre guys would talk in a lingo that is beneficial for them. Let us take this scenario We refill the carts, disable the ink warning print All OK. In case of any generic problem we take out the refilled cart, stick in an original oem cart take it for service...
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    Anatomy of a Canon 830/31 cartridge

    Like they say life has to go on. Yesterday's printers no matter how good they were have had their run and the sooner we get to know the intricacies and the workarounds of the newer crop of printers the better for all of us. Lets us start by dissecting the above mentioned printers cartridges...
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    Help with colour fade using a Canon PIXMA

    Try saving your photoshop files in tiff and than take a printout. Jasii
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    New scanner and new ink.

    Hi QD! Feels awkward making a suggestion to a person as experienced as you. Your yellow looks OK The Blue seems to have streaks and the Black text looks jagged. I would attribute it to an air lock in the cart. Even the best ink will give poor results if the quality of empty is not upto the...
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    Help with colour fade using a Canon PIXMA

    Hi From India, How are you saving your files PSD or Doc?? Jasii
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    Advice please: Need smallest footprint AIO w/carts that refill easily

    Hi Don, Let's keep it simple. 1.HP printer 4480 is similar to 4488 that we have here in India. 2.The cartridges are refillable and use the same ink as widely used in HP 21 & 22 carts. 3. You will be able to work with the printer after refilling. 4. Printer will not recognise the ink levels of...
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    Generic Faq & Troubleshooting

    Hi All, It would be nice if we all get together on this thread and document various stages in a laser toner refill. A faq on numerous problems on account of specific component wear out/failure would be of great help. Rgds, Jasii
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    Best non OEM Blank carts in Europe ?

    Hi! Look again at the warranty clause. Warranty is not effected by disabling ink warning for sure. The prob is you'd have to manually keep track of ink levels. I just googled canon auto reset chip and there are a huge plethora of options, discount the chinese offers and you should be locate...
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    Best non OEM Blank carts in Europe ?

    Hello from India, The printer that you mention uses the canon 820/21 cart that have been around for quite some time and find usage in Canon IP3600/ IP4600/ MP540/ 620/ 630/ 980 Canon IP3600/ IP4600/ MP620/ Canon IP3600/ IP4600/ ... So like our friend pharmacist says, the best cart is the canon...
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    Anatomy of a Canon 830/31 cartridge

    Hello everybody! Ever since I joined this great forum it looked that I had canon experts all over and they had literally thrown out poor HP (the world's largest printer mfr) out of the window. I did rant over a few problems with HP on the forum but received very few responses. So guess what I...
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    Advice please: Need smallest footprint AIO w/carts that refill easily

    Hi from India, Just stumbled on to this thread, hope I 'm in time to help our friend. HP 60 is the std cart and HP 60XL Color (CC644WN),is the so called extra large cart that's supposed to print about 600 pages (at 5% coverage) HP sure has a task at hand cos the normal pages that we all...
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    Image Hosting - FREE -

    Wanted to upload a pdf file (approx 2.5mb) to answer a thread in the Laser segment,however it seems pdf files cannot be uploaded. Than tried emailing you but I somehow seem to be missing the attachment procedure? I had recently got a mail re loggin problem so have uploaded the same there. Hope...
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    storing a printer

    The answer by embguy is well documented and comprehensive except for the tap water part, I am rather sceptical on using tap water as part of the cleaning process, more so ,if we live in an area which has hard water. Distilled water is easy to come by, and is cheap especially when we take the...
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    What am I overlooking?

    HI CB! You never got back as to if your problem got resolved? It is always nice to know that solution to problems have been found. Rgds, Jasii
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    Printer and cat

    Wow!! That Printer Sure Took A Lot Of Beating Could Serve As An Add For One Of The Printer Majors,
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    Samsung Ml3050 Refill Problem

    Just Refilled A Samsung Ml3050 Toner Cart. Prints Blank Pages. Any Suggestions?????? Rgds Jasii
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    Toner Cartridge shelf life? - HP Laserjet

    Hi from India, Have been using HP lasers for about 17 years now and the following observations apply: Sealed original OEM Toner cartridges can be safely used even after 3 years without any ill effect. As the toner powder as the name implies is dry in form, Moisture is the no 1 enemy, moisture...
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    Printer humor.

    Thanks Guys! good to see that even with technology we still have not lost the lighter side of life. And by the way the cartoon strip got cut on the right side and could not be read?????? Rgds, Jasii
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    Canon in trouble,and are raising prices - 2009 2nd quarter report

    We have seen both HP and Canon increase their consummable prices by about 10-18% here in India, BUT have also seen an introduction of cheaper variants of ink carts by HP for Example to supplement the 21 black they have introduced the 21B at nearly 60% cost reduction. Same case for 27 black we...
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    We're all being ripped now. Does ANYONE make a cost-effective unit?

    Am a die hard Laser fan and strongly believe that inkjets (black only) no matter how good can never rival a laser for longevity and ease of refill. But the world of color adds another dimension hence The three printer formula has personally worked for me. 1 Laser to do the bulk black printing (...
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