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I went to Fry's today in the middle of the last long weekend before summer ends. I was very surprised to see a completely empty hallway next to shelves where printers were displayed. Well, there were a lot of HP and Epson priners still on the shelves. but not Canon. Despite that there was a...

Canon probably spends tens of millions of dollars in its R&D for printers alone every year. They ay have a division with a few hundred heads receiving salaries and benefits every day. They probably spend a 5% or 10% of their revenue in R&D so that every year you get some new printers that are...

I used weink RC-52 before. It is not clear if it is MIS ink (weink carries MIS ink). But I found it not matching Canon closely. I could not get the deep saturated blue like Canon ink did. But other than that photos did look very good to excellent without the blue. Then I was told about the glop...

Forgot to mention, I almsot always refill only when my cartridges are empty. There is nothing wrong with that either. Never had a problem. Despite there are reports by people of the opposite I simply have no problem. I am not talking about once or twice. I have refilled so many times that I...

If a cartridge needs external pressure or vacuum to refill (not for a reason of speeding the refill process) the ink or the cartridge is not very refillable in my opinion. No, there are not a host of variables in refilling sponged ink cartridges, Canon BCI-6 and compatibles in particular. Ink...

Where did you buy the print head? If the electronics in your printer is good and your cartridges are new I can only guess that your print head is faulty.

Refillable sponge design fault? I have used Hobbicolors refillable cartridges for about two years. I am still using them as of today. I use syringe and I have no problems. I believe 99.99% of the people who refill their cartridges don't have and don't use a $5000 machine to refill. I don't know...

As Websnail said, print regularly is the best practice to keep the printer in top shape. I have let my ip8500 idle in recent months becaue I use more now a mp780. About two weeks ago I hooked up the 8500 and a nozzle test right after powering up. It was good. The Hobbicolors ink has not let me...

If the printer suddenly stops printing black completely, not a single dot or line can be seen, it may very well be an electronic defect that suddenly strikes it. This can be difficult to find the defect and fix it. If it started out with banding and eventually stopped printing then it may be a...

I have had my ip8500 with 1 pico liter droplet for a year and several months. Have been using 3rd party refill kits and I still have my first set of OEM cartridges about 80% full. Never had a clog. Have printed 2k maybe 3k pages of text mixed with color graphics and several hurdered 8x10 and...

I am not sure I can answer all your 4 questions. But I will try the question 3 and 4. Based on my experience refilling BCI-6 cartridges on my ip8500 and my new MP780 the answer is no. You don't have to keep the cartridges full all the time. You can wait until it is empty or pretty low ink. But...

You probably have a semi-clog in the yellow channel. It is commonly agreed that you may cause a damage to the printhead if you keep printing without fixing the clog. You can try a fairly safe trick. Use a syringe to drip hot water into the ink intake where ink cartridge is plugged onto it. Hot...

Try Costco's Georgia Pacific brand inkjet paper. It has 6 realms (3000 sheets total) in a box for the price of $16. It's not the highest quality but coated. It's perfect for your flyer project.

Hum..., these cartridges look really "NOT" very pretty to me. There must be a reason the OEM design has the maze on top of the cartridges. And there must be another reason why it is covered but leaving one end open. It's surprising to learn alotofthings sell cartridges at this level of quality.

Websnail, sorry for the sad news. Was the print head really that hot when you took it out? Perhaps you got a bad one from ebay? Now your 750 may be damaged as well, if the print head was indeed so hot. I would not consider to plug in another one to risk burning it out again. Sorry, but I really...

I use HC ink on my ip8500. This printer has 8 ink cartridges. You can imagine how difficult it may be to color match with Canon's OEM ink. But I have never felt the need of a profile printing mostly on Kirkland paper. If you do close comparison side by side you may find some color differences...

You probably have a clogged print head. Do a nozzle test and see if you can tell which color is clogged. If you continue to use the printer when there is a clog you may end up with a damaged print head. Unclog it ASAP. You may want to replace your C & C cartridges with good quality cartridges...

Well, I at least had my ip8500 turned off unused for 3 or even 4 weeks once. When I eventually turned it on again and printed a nozzle check it was just perfect. Printed a few photos later and the printer was proven in perfect condifition. So I think you don't need to leave it on all day. But I...

I used to have a Canon s820 and used 3rd party ready filled compatible cartridges. I had clogs all the time. For quite a lengthy period of time I kept on looking at things like you did and suspected cartridge seating and questioned if the seal did the job or not as the cause of the clogs. I had...

Fotofreek, I found this statement of yours not correct. I finally picked up a MP780 from Fry's Electronics for a decent price recently. I have printed over several hundred pages of text documents double sided in duplex mode. My documents have some colored text in them so all CMY ink were used...