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Mikling, thank you for your effort in your lengthy post. But I beg your permission for a different opinion about how the cartridge works. Canon's cartridge is not meant to be used only once. The fact is it does work if refilled. The fact is many people have refilled it and have repeatedly filled...

If your cartridge has such resistance in giving up its ink to a deep cleaning cycle I will think the cartridge and ink combination is bad quality. You should always do a nozzle check after each cleaning cycle (deep or light) to make sure it is ink not air that reaches the print head. If it is...

You don't really need to worry about it. Before the print head is moved out of the parking area to print anything the printer first raises the print head and wipes it by a soft rubber blade.

Regardless how you refill, as long as the sponge is full and the reseve tank is full too, the old and new ink will eventually mix evenly aross the sponge and the reserve tank as well. This is physics. The process is called diffusion. It may take a while, may be hours, but the diffusion process...

Mikling, I really do not agree with the way you think how a Canon cartridge works. Ink in the sponge is always consumed first until air entering from the vent at the top reaches the bottom between the two tanks. The air then gets into the reserve tank to exchange for ink in the reserve tank...

IP4300 is a far better printer than Epson R220. Not clear about R345. I would stay away from R220.

My ip8500 was often left unused for one or two weeks and at least once up to a month in recent days. I do not have problems of ink drying out on me. I think I do need to use it more frequently to stay out of trouble. I believe the cause of your problem is not a simple ink drying out cause...

Raise the hood, wait for the print head to move to the center. Unplug all 8 cartridges, Raise the lever to the right of the print head. The print head assembly can be lifted in the direction toward yourself. Normally it's not advised to remove it for cleaning. My ip8500 is almost 2 years old...

Don't worry too much about it really. If the print head is not parked at the time of power outage the print head carriage should be free to move. If you expect the power outage be long then move it to the center and remove all cartridges and the print head. Cap all your cartridges and just put...

Speed is cartainly not necessary a top consideration for many. But between 1 and 2 picoliter there isn't really much difference either. My ip8500 has a 2 picoliter print head. It's still the top dog of all Canon photo printers now. For about the same money ip4300 definitely beats an ip4200. 5300...

I have been using my mp780 for printing text for some time. Have put my 8500 aside accumulating dust for the past few weeks. Figured if I keep ignoring it the ink may dry up casuing problems. So I powered it up today and gave it a kick to wake it up. Found two tanks empty and most others half or...

Actually it is quite possible. But you will need to learn a lot about all the problems and solutions about inkjet refilling in order to succeed. You want to have at least two identical printers so that if one goes down and befores it's back up again your printing will not be completely shut...

Ip4300 has 512 nozzles in its PGI-5 texting printing head. That's about 50% more than ip4200's. That's what I was trying to say. This makes it a very fast text and photo printer.

Ip4300 also has 50% more nozzles than ip4200. It is comparable to ip5200 in nozzle count. This is probably why 4200 and 5200 are discontinued. There is no info about ip5300 yet. It's not on Canon web site.

Anyone noticed that ip4300 is distinctly different from ip4200 in the print head? There are two sets of nozzles for Cyan and Magenta. It looks like this: 1,024 x 2 colors (C, M), 512 x 2 colors (C, M), 512 x 2 colors (Y, BK). The black text has the same 512 nozzles. Total number of nozzles is...

I tend to agree with headphonesman. I have had my ip8500 for almost two years. It is still going strong after lots of photos printed. Thermal print head needs cooling, which is done by the ink that flows through the print head. Print head clogging is a print head killer. Once clogged and if not...

Isn't that just a sales pitch? By looking at the photos it involves using a knife that looks dangerous to me and at the end they suggest to use an adhesive tape. That's walking on water to me. If the plug is likely not sealing well the tape will not seal well either. Many of you inkjet masters...

Probably not any smaller. When the print head is ejecting such small droplet of ink while it is moving back and forth on top of the paper the ink droplet will likely be blown away from reaching the paper.

Weink (MIS ink) sells a pigment ink that contains 25% dye. Price is very high compared to dye ink.

It looks like weink is gone. There is no announcement, news nor any explanation from weink. This is a very bad business style. They seem to have pulled the plug and left no words to the audiences. I searched internet forums and discussion groups with no result. Nobody noticed it, except this...