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Thanks to all of you here, I refilled carts for my i860 today. I made a bit of a mess when I had problems with the black cart, but all in all, a very successful venture. I ordered ink from Precision Ink, used the enclosed directions, and voila! Without everyone's stories about refilling I...

Thanks dougsewell, That did the trick!

I just received an i860 Canon from a seller. I can't get it recognized by my computer. I've installed the software that came with it, though I thought it should have worked on my other i860 software. I've also used the printer cord that came with it. The printer comes on but my computer says...

I downloaded and installed a new driver. Again. I'm getting pretty decent prints today using Matte photo paper. Plain paper still is not so good and has visible banding. I think I will just stop worrying about it now and images I want good prints of I will use good paper. Thanks to everyone...

I'm not familiar with thinking in terms of the phrase "color space", nor can I say if my scanner is calibrated. I'm aware that printed images are unlikely to look the same as monitor images. I don't expect them to look the same. What I do expect is that a print will look crisp and sharp, not as...

I just tried printing from 2 different programs. The prints look identical. I wasn't pleased with the color rendering when I was using third party inks, so I set up a profile with color corrections. I am not now using them, I'm printing to default. The above print is on Canon matte photo...

Sorry Trigger, you may have confused me with someone else. All my colors print. They just appear to print with low resolution. I'm using Canon ink, some of which are a couple of weeks old, the others maybe 5 or 6 months. I had the printer serviced by a Canon service person last summer...

Trying it all again. I hope it's right this time. It's closer to the actual print, I think, although still not great.

Thanks for any help! I've uploaded a just-done nozzle check.

It appears that the 4000 is as difficult to find as the 860. Is there a later one that uses the same print head?

Ron350, That seems like a good idea. I wondered what Canon had replaced the i860 with. Are there other differences than the cabinets they're in between them?

Thanks for your response. I've been starting to think that I was going to have to replace this one. But with what? I really like Canon, but which one is as fast, good, and cheap, as the i860? Anyone have good ideas?

I'm sooo frustrated. My Canon i860 used to be a super printer. I used some third party inks. Maybe that ruined it. I finally couldn't get it to show clean nozzles no matter what I did. I blew it out with compressed air, I used alcohol, I used a bit of warm water. I had gone back to Canon inks...

Thanks a bunch! I blew some air through it and let it do its up and down thing a couple of times and now it's working OK. I appreciate the aid!

My Canon i860 has developed a new quirk. It tells me that it's out of paper when there's paper loaded. If I push it will say paper is jammed. If I push enough the paper will go partially in, back partially out, do that once or twice then start printing. I don't recall it having problems the...

Here's how I ended up cleaning the area under the printhead carriage. I cut long strips of paper, folded them in half and pushed them under the carriage and out the other side where I could grasp the end. I pulled them, carefully, back and forth, changing them when dirtied. I wet some of the...

I think I've discovered the problem. There was a bit of hair and lint caught under the corner of the print carriage (in a semi-circular shape) and the leaking ink tank has saturated everything with ink so it was making little prints of itself on every pass. Since disturbing the hair and lint...

In looking more closely at the marks, they appear to be over-lapping partial circles.

I beg your pardon if this question has been addressed. My i860 had a leaking cartidge, now I have a series of marks on prints that appear to be coming from a roller. They are small dots and dashes evenly spaced down the page in a particular area. They start a bit down from the top of the print...

I use Picture Window, or Easy Picture, or the Microsoft Print Wizard. I've tried color adjustments in them but I'm not satisfied with the results.