I am a Refiller and I have 1 specific inkjetprinter from Canon in my "Refill Experiment" to find out how it will perform when it comes to printing photos...with ink from different suppliers.
Do I recommend it? NO! but I do it with a printer given to me and I can not see any reasons not to share...
Circle of Life when it comes to Refilled Ink?
Epson A4 Premium Luster Photo Paper
Canon printer is printing scaled to fit A4
Canon printer/scanner is scanning A4 printed picture into PSE
The white borders are paper edges
Photo - Sardinia, Italy
Edit: Picture was printed with refilled ink...
What can be wrong with answering a member asking about help to get used cartridges when I was about to put in the garbage bin. Must be better to recycle if possible ?
I got my MG5550 few weeks ago via an advertisement online and the female seller stated:
"The cartridges are dry, so the printer does not work optimally. The scanner, on the other hand, works well!"
Price was USD$ 20 (twenty) and included a small amount of photopaper. The Photopaper alone was...
You go to the store and buy a new printer.....go home....unpack and install Canon OEM carts from the same box as the printer and connect it to your computer......then you print 5-6 pages to see how it works. Next week you print 10-15 photos taken at a party and then you leave it for 8-10 months...
Unsuiteable ink.... 🤔
This is my Canon MG5550 almost printing more than - one hundred - 100 - pages with Canon OEM Original Ink...still running on Canon fabric ink...
Pictures:
1. Nozzle Check
2. Canon scan of test-photo printed with MG5550
This is my how-to-do-list:
1. Nozzle Check
2. Remove printhead, clean printheadsurface and flush channels
3. Remove and clean inkcartridge gaskets
4. Reverse procedure 3 to 1
The printhead of ip4500 was developed around 20 years ago...
Good to know that my MG7550 has been run with Canon OEM ink only prior to my nozzle-test... :thumbsup