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Octoinkjet sells to continental Europe. I've ve been purchasing from them for years. Even after Brexit, there's no problem with Customs fees or taxes, provided the value of the order is under 150 euro. It's just like purchasing from the continent. Shipping costs are also very reasonable...

Yeah, that hack seems to me the only valuable asset of Qimage. I still don't understand why this program disables advanced printing settings on all my Canon and, what's worse, it doesn't restores those settings after you quit Qimage. That's idiotic. It's a chore having to re-enable manually...

My five cents: Stay with WIn10. Nothing in Win11 is worth the hassle to update. As for Win10 support ending Oct2025, my copy of WIn10 hasn't been updated since 2019 and it runs without any problem.

Update : after printing several jobs using the USB cable, the problem hasn't reappeared, what reinforces our assumption that it was just a Wifi issue.

Old Joe has lost all his credibility for me, since the misleading and almost dishonest marketing claims on their latest models... but I won't enter into this here. One thing to consider about big printers is that they are far more hungry on Kwxh. Obviously it takes more energy to heat a 35x35...

As far as 3D manufacturer marketing is concerned I'm HIGHLY skeptical about all the claims they make about those awesome features. I believe maybe 10% of all this hype and, on second thoughts, only 5%.. 600 mm/s printing speed with supreme quality my foot (and theirs ). It seems that Creality...

According to Canon error codes 5C00 means : "Purge Unit, Purge cam sensor error. There may be foreign objects or the orange protective tape inside the device blocking the print head carriage". It seems there's something wrong with the purge cam sensor. It's either damaged, dislodged or...

l wonder if this might be the root of the issue. I can't remember if my 3D printer was connected when the issues on the MB5150 happened. Or maybe it was the washing machine application ?. The second error happened last Saturday morning and the washing machine was "on duty" at that time...

It happens randomly, not on every printing job. Besides, a corrupted file seems impossible because, after the unexpected pause, the same document is printed from the start without further issues. As I said, this happened only twice so far. First time two weeks ago and second time last Saturday...

My MB5150 is quite old but, so far, it keeps going strong. Nevertheless, during the last days I had a couple of times the same strange issue printing a document of several pages. The job starts OK but then it stops in the middle of the third page, for no apparent reason, while on the screen...

I think the problem has nothing to do with the printhead. The chip pins make contact with 4 wires connected directly to the logic board of the printer through internal cabling, bypassing totally the printhead. Provided that both the chip and the printer contacts are clean. I believe that PeterBJ...

It might be that the part holding the cart in place ( a flexible plastic tab or similar) it's broken. If so, then you're in trouble, because the cartridge won't seat firmly against the printer contacts -> no communication between chip and printer -> error 1660. For your sake, I hope that...

Very bad idea IMHO. The Canon Pro-200 uses dye inks. Pigments can damage permanently a printhead designed for dye inks. That doesn't means that the printer will literally explode as soon as you put pigmented inks into the carts. You'll maybe get good prints for a while but, in all likelihood...

In the past I've purchased a couple of times HP transparency foils to use with a HP inkjet printer. We're talking around thirty years ago but I recall that the results were very good. Anyway, the foils were very expensive and I had no much use for them so I didn't purchase more.

That depends on the opacity of the ink. In all likelihood, dye ink wouldn't work at all, but maybe pigment would give an acceptable result ?. I have no black paper at hand or I'd try with my Maxify.

Covering almost all the page in black probably would be too much ink for plain paper. I've printed in the past booklet covers featuring photos with a massive amount of dark backgrounds and the results were a bit messy. Nowadays I only use for that purpose paper of 120-150gram and it's better...

Maybe printing in yellow would be an acceptable alternative ? I guess that printers with pigmented inks are better for printing over a dark background because lighter dye inks are quite transparent.

According to forum member Websnail (owner of Octoinkjet) it seems that Canon Europe decided some time ago to stop supplying printheads for the Pro series (and maybe other models too). Even dealers have trouble getting right now spares from Canon. Obviously they intend to repair the machines...

Occasionally I get this kind of contamination on the CO stripes of my Pro10s, but only when the printer has been idle for at least two weeks. Like you, at first I suspected a leak inside the printhead, but it wasn’t so. Most likely the issue is the residual ink on the resting pads. After one or...

I recall years ago refilling my Brother mono laser with third party toner powder. By comparison, refilling ink carts seems so neat and clean. :rolleyes: