Search results

You may have damaged the printer. There are a number of cable connections behind the printhead parking lot. There is also the key pad wiring in the fornt of it. Take a look and see if anything around the parking lot is knocked out of connection. Chance should be good that the printer is not...

Sorry for jumping on the gun. I took the number from Osage's words. I agree with Osage, even 3 out of 12 is still very unlikely. If you can't find anything wrong with nozzle check they are not defective. Well, you are here to ask for help, aren't you? That's fine. But my gut feeling is you...

I have seen one in a small company. They have a special printhead that cost over $5k. It's a piezo printhead. It uses solvent oil based ink. When the printhead clogs they let the nozzles continue to shoot solvent for a couple of minutes. It's pretty neat.

"You report feeding problems with eight out of 12 hobbicolor cartridges--a very high fraction defective" You know, that's a bit funny indeed. For such a high defective rate in virgin cartridges you blame the ink first. You said the ink is not bad yet it has the same strong green tint. You then...

One of the problems with swellable paper, I mean Kodak, is it looks very glossy fine. But after printing the image on it the glossiness is gone. It looks matt on areas heavily covered by ink. Anyone see the same thing as I did?

Neil, I do prefer razors with 4 blades. It is really different. Canon's ip8500 with two more colors of ink makes a significant difference from printers with only 6 colors of ink. You have to make side by side comparisons and see it yourself. Deep greens and reds are more accurate and more...

It's not a best strategy to assume what the problem is instead of finding the truth. My printer is a 8500 so it is not going to be completely representative for your ip3000. Here is what I think. Canon is a comapny from Asia. Asians skin all have a pinkish tint, especially young females with...

Panos, quality of Canon original cartridges may be very good or even the best but the price really sucks. Besides, will you buy a couple of sets of OEM cartridges in order to have enough for refilling? Are you sure you will pay more money than for a new printer for cartridges? I know some...

Replace the black with a new one. This will prove if it is reposible for the contamination. Do a few cleaning cycles to suck out the black ink in the contaminated color cartridges before it is too late. If you wait too long the black ink will completely merge with the color inks then it may be...

Just found the method I posted isn't completely overfill proof. I refilled my BCI-6bk today but the black ink bled still. Had to squeeze the cart to get rid of a few drops. the sponge was 100% black so I could not see anyway to tell if it might be too wet or not. But after getting a few drops...

Lasers are fairly energy efficient these days. I have a desktop copier bought used that seems take no time to warm up. It is ready to make copies instantly right after turning on the power. Well, it's a copy machine not exactly a laser but it has a drum like lasers so it is pretty close. I use...

Isn't this another example of overfilled symptom? Does it look like red (or magenta) ink spilled (leaked) on top of black? Do a nozzle check and see if there is any banding, cross contamination of color or anything else. The Photo Paper Pro setting is best for the Canon Pro pepr but it is said...

Wow! what an excellent work done! Question: did you notice any cleaning cycle excuted by the printer when it was printing the 13 photos? The printer invoked cleaning cycles might be the reason why the pigmented black ink was consumed but only a little. Great work, Ron.

I may be wrong. When spongeless ink cartridge is out of ink it is completely out of ink. There is no sponge to hold back a few drops. This may be a problem for thermo print head. It may be cooked immediately when the cartridge is out of ink. If this is true you should never use spongeless...

Osage, I did not follow the instruction either. I screwed up big time the very first time on my 2nd refill kit from HC. Luckily it did not do any ham to my printer. I noticed that the banding ws so bad that I must have done wrong something. Reading the instruction made me realize that I had...

Fotofreek, I believe the fear of overfilling is really over stated. The way you refill should work. My overfilling experience was my own fault because I did not read the instruction and I actually tried to fill as much ink as I could. I lost one OEM cartridge refilling it. I tried to purge the...

My understanding of refilling HC cartridges is a little simpler. The sponge chamber should only be half filled. This means the sponge is filled with half of what it can absorb. Then the reserve tank should be filled as full as you can. The reason the sponge should not be allowed to absorb ink...

Steph, is your print head still working? Printing with no cartridge and right after cleaning cycles is very dangerous to the print head. With no ink to cool the print head heaters in the nozzles it is suicidal to start a print job on it. Don't ever do that again. When you said "very little ink...

Jonalava, your scaner is indeed strange to make one scan obviously too blue but not blue at all to the other. There is no similarity there. If your scanner is very inaccurate then your images are only misleading but not helping. Have you tried to swap other cartridges in addition to Magenta? The...

I believe the Cyan cartridge is to blame. Either the ink or the cartridge is bad. Well, since it always fail on you it seems the ink is bad. It's time to find a new supply for quality ink and cartridges. The printhead is not necessary dead so quickly. Once you install a good Cyan cartridge one...