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    Canon i9900 Banding

    Mikling, there have been reports by people who soaked their print heads for too long which turned out to be fatal when they reinstalled the print heads to find blinking LEDs on their printer. I have seen an i820d failing from lengthy soaking of print head. I have seen similar reports from others...
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    Canon i9900 Banding

    Your nozzle check print shows BK, C, M and Y all have banding. This is very unusual to get all 4 main colors to clog at the same time. If you were not careful you could get one color to clog. You have to be ignorant to allow all 4 to clog. When you print 300 pages (actually 600) double sided you...
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    spongeless carts

    I have seen spongeless carts for Epson. I have heard about it for Canon. There is one reason that makes sense to avoid the spongeless cart fo Canon printers. The sponge retains the last few drops of ink when the printer declares it empty. That last few drops of ink keep the print head from...
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    CLI-8 refilled and printer keeps asking...

    Joel, each cartridge will make you go through the whole message sequence once. If your printer has 5 cartridges like mine you have to go through the sequence 5 times. If you have two setrs of cartridges you will have to --- 10 times. There is nothing you can do about it. This is no different...
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    How to reach ink waste tank? /Dismantle i960

    I think there are 3 screws only. Two of them holding the main printer assembly on the bottom chassis. One on the left and the other on the right side. The 3rd is holding the switch assembly (power, resume, etc.) and the wires connect to it. Have someone holding the bottom chassis while you pull...
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    The real price of ink....

    Don't look at the possible cost of ink only. There are a lot of other costs associated with selling an ink cartridge. You will notice that Canon does put some quality in making the plastic of the ink cartridge. Their packaging is really not cheap stuff. They need to invest in marketing by paying...
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    screwed by ignorance about canon chips for ip4200

    Very few of them are available on eBay actually. This shows that Canon's market share is still very small comparing to HP's. There are tons of HP empty cartridges on eBay. Canon's marketing strategy is very poor in my opinion. It needs to go back to BCI-6's chipless cartridges in order to win...
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    I'm Just Giving Up On My Canon

    Canon's marketing is the worst among all major brand names. A few examples. Canon i960 was recognized as an excellent photo printer when it came out. But it was discontinued when it was selling like a hot cake. Same happened to ip4000. There are still people looking to buy these printers today...
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    screwed by ignorance about canon chips for ip4200

    Wayfarer, check out this ebay set of cartridges for your printer, ebay item #250096025592. There are two more days before this auction ends. It has all you need to get back to printing. You can return the G&G cartridges or keep them as spares. The seller has a perfect feedback score and the...
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    how to remove printhead?

    Roofrabit, you probably have a leak from one of your cartridges. I don't think it has a clog that needs to be cleaned.
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    Canon CLI refilling experiences?

    This refilling method is no doubt the most creative one I am aware of. I am not against it nor lose anything to it. I just thought to share my understanding of how Canon cartridge works and what theorectical implication it may bring to the cartridge. In real life it it is proven problem free you...
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    Canon CLI refilling experiences?

    You need to seal the hole. After giving it some brain storming I believe there is a problem if you do not seal the hole. You are correct that ink won't drip out of it but air will be sucked in from there. This path for air becomes a short cut for the original path. The origial air path is...
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    Canon CLI refilling experiences?

    Canon's bottom half of sponge is really a laminated layers of fiber running horizontally. It's not really a sponge but a patented layers of fibers. Piercing through it by a needle may cause some structural damage to it. But the damage will not impact the ink flow in a negative way. It won't...
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    Print head had deep gash when I took it out of printer

    Perhaps there was an electric short in the print head that caused the circuit to burn out like that. You probably did not do anything wrong. It is just that the time has run out for the print head.
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    Canon CLI-8 Sponged Carts. Understanding Their Operation & Properties

    Websnail, no hard feelings please. I won't conclude that all 3rd party inks are bad because you had a bad experience with one shot of Image Specialists ink. Nor should we conclude that all 3rd party cartridges are bad because Mikling has a problem with his PrintRite ink. Honestly a blind bashing...
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    Canon CLI-8 Sponged Carts. Understanding Their Operation & Properties

    Mikling, the number of people who use only OEM cartridges but still get clogging problems is not near zero. I would agree with you if you say it is less than the number from those who use 3rd party cartridges. The actual number from those who use only OEM cartridges is muvh higher than you think...
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    Canon CLI-8 Sponged Carts. Understanding Their Operation & Properties

    Most HP ink cartridges are sponged without using Canon's patented sponge design. The fact is you need to use the right sponge. Same can be applied to 3rd party BCI-6 cartridges.
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    Canon CLI-8 Sponged Carts. Understanding Their Operation & Properties

    Well, many Canon owners had print head clogging issues despite they used only Canon OEM cartridges. I am sure Canon cartridges are great in quality. But the patents canon had on the sponged cartridges were partly for discouraging imitations. Some 3rd party sponged ink cartridges work extremely...
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    Ink for Canon MP830 question.

    I never had a single problem for removing cartridges for whatever reason and plug them back in. It's misleading that you have to top one up when it is taken out of the printer for ink level checking. You may waste some ink because the chipped OEM cartridges do know whenever any cartridge is...
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    Canon CLI refilling experiences?

    Grandad, my printer does not seem to know that I have taken a cartridge out for refilling. When the lid is closed down it moves the print head to park. When I open the lid again to plug in the refilled cartridge it moves the print head back to the center. I can do that to all cartridges one at a...
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