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I had a look at needles for refilling, over here in old blighty it seems that most long blunt needles are usualy sold in those cheap refill kits and what needles you can ger from stores or ebay in the uk are either blunt and larger than 21 gauge or are in fact sharp needles sold at a silly price...

Curry's ? their just as bad as pc world :-( I've seen the print heads on sale for the same price and was tempted myself but knowing my luck I would have a spare head and something else would fail like the control board or a motor ! So far I've not had any ink smears on the paper, this is no...

Not sure if they worry about who they supply too but I got mine the in two days, well wrapped. I asked in my local boots chemist ( pharmacy ) about needles for refilling purposes..... 'refilling what exactly' ? ink cartridges I said, then I was asked 'are they prescription items ?' You know at...

Took me a while to find these and test them so if anyone from the UK has a need for replacement needles, surgical quality ones can be ordered on line, I got a delivery of 21g microlance 2 inch needles from these are ideal for refilling either top or german method as they just reach the prism...

SLR_65, Hopefully you should have email to a link for the missing software you need.

Well so far I am not having any problems with the prints, no marks :-) I have taken on board all the advice given to my first post, applying slight negative presure to card is now part of loading the printer, best to develop a simple habit than waste a print. The black pigment cart is that...

Thanks Servo, had a look at them today after reading your post, for what I need these resetable compats seem to be fine as hoping to use them as spares for refilled oem carts. I have not found any pigment black there and I dont fancy using dye based. I cant beleive the same place sells the...

Servo, These pre chipped carts you got, the swiss ink ones,where they from here by any chance ? http://shop.ink.co.uk While I was searching for swiss ink the site sent me to the above address, prices look attractive for the pre chipped carts, not sure about the ink but if its the same brand...

' I'll ad to the above post.Do a search on Ebay and email any questions to Dave at Hobbicolors.He is extremely helpful.Their inks are called "UW8" for color(equals CLI-8) and "PMT-BK" for pigment black(equals PGI-5).' I'l second that, As newbie to refilling I ordered a large refill kit from...

Aussieinker, Thank you for your reply, It does seem odd that ive used the german method on all the other carts but this one cart seems to be giving more ink to the head, after some thought I believe there may be more too it than just 'more ink' it could be the ink ( not sure as its a good...

on30trainman, Thanks for the info regarding bent card, I had not considered the card bending as such, even though the card we used does have a slight curve when it leaves the printer, I cleaned the under side of the print carriage only because I beleived ink may have built up enough to smudge...

Guardian, thanks for your reply, your suggestions are not long shots, The info about the under side of the print head was usefull, I managed to clean it and the long sponge thats under the print head. Powered off the printer in its off position. lifted the sponge by the left side and carefully...

Hello again, tis me, martop the unlucky, I have been refilling my ip4300 carts for about 2 weeks and not a problem, well thought not a problem till last night when some of the print outs had a black smudge on the leading edge of the paper, so I did a light head clean and also cleaned the bottom...

So far I've not used the top fill method as I have been using the german method, even then I tape over the tiny hole I made for a 22 gauge needle, so far I've not lost a drop from the cart, except when filling a dry washed one that made a little mess. This gets even stranger as one of my...

Thank you for your reply, To me that tank looks empty but as you say it may not be empty to the sensor, now that means canon have left it till the last moment to tell you to replace the cart. It also means its useless for detecting a leaking tank, blowing my theory out of the window. Anyway, I...

Have tested this with a new set of oem canon carts, shame to unseal them but... First, installed the new carts then once the printer had settled down I printed 2 test pages. I then took the yellow cart chose at random and drained it with a syringe and bung... as the image shows the cart is...

Thanks for the replies, very usefull information provided as usual :-) I am like a dog with a bone with this one so before I start chasing my tail and becoming confused this is what I have done ( long day yesterday and I may have missed sometihng ! ) The magenta showed full in the monitor but...

Just done a test, I drained the ink from the yellow cart ( chose at random ) and the printer says its still full, so thats the magenta and the yellow that are not detected as empty. This printer is the ip4300 and has never had the ignore warnings by-passed so I think its safe to conclude either...

Thanks for the reply, I have been reading all sorts of info about the way the printer monitors the ink so I took the cart out, drained the ink out so it was empty, placed in back and the printer said it was still full even though it had no inkl. turned the printer off for a few minutes and...

Need a little help with this one, I refilled and reset all my cli-8 carts as wellas the PGBK5, I used the ink that came with the redsetter from RNB Import & Export ( patronenhandel.de ) I filled each cart using the german method with 22 guage needles, filling each one right up to remove any air...