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The way I see this is if the yellow is slightly contaminated by black it is not going to cause a color shift. So if you can somehow get the most of the black ink out of the yellow cart you should be able to use the yellow still. If I were you I would be more worried about why black ink showed up...

It is probably black ink leaked out of the printhead. Then it got sucked in by the yellow tank. If you run a few cleaning cycles you may be able to suck the black ink back out. I would not call it a total loss. If you get other colors into it it may be a total loss. But it maybe OK if it is...

I have a roll of Press & Seal. I believe it is still available at Target, Walmart etc. It works fine to just press and it will seal bottles, cups and plastic jars. But I have no knowledge if it will remain sealed long enough. A roll at a few bucks will last forever for sealing ink cartridges, if...

i560 may not look a late model but it is equivalent to ip3000 which is a very late model as of last year. The main difference between i560 and ip3000 is in the duplex printing. i560 does not have duplex mode. I had an ip3000 briefly last year. I sent it back to the store because of a problem in...

As grandad said if you get a green cast you probably have a week magenta or photo magenta. It's possible that when you switched to a set of 3rd party carts it caused a partial clog in magenta or photo magenta. Before the clog is cleard switching to a set of OEM may prove costly but not anything...

Did the green cast occur after you began to use the new set of carts? Was there a clear boundary before and after using the new set of carts? If the answer is yes you probably got problematic colors from your new cartridges. If your nozzle test has perfect print with no banding nor any missing...

I have heard from a friend who has an ip2000 which uses BCI-24 carts. He said he had to throw away his cheap 3rd party BCI-24 carts after ink is used. He could not refill them for some reason. But I don't know what brand his BCI-24 is. He ordered online from somewhere. He has no problem using...

Pigment is basically a large number of faded dyes grouped together to form a much larger molecule called pigment. The faded dyes on the surface of the pigment forms a protective layer that blocks gas and UV from further damaging the dyes beneath the surface so that the pigment will become more...

As a Canon printer owner myself I hate to hear that a Canon printhead lasts only 14 months. Mine is getting old. If average life of a Canon printhead is 1 - 2 years that's scary to have bought a high-end one, an ip8500. A clogged and a dead printhead will show basically a same sympton. You will...

A PC's parallel port is a very old piece of I/O interface that needs the CPU's attention to move data from memory to the device on the port. For every 8 bytes of data the CPU is involved once in moving it. Because the printer is very slow you want to give it the data it needs immediately or the...

Fotofreek: I heard that the chip resetter for Epson is basically all the same except the external fitting (plastic grid or something like that) is arranged differently for fitting different Epson cartridges. I have seen regualrly a vendor in my local flea market (in De Anza College) selling 3rd...

Jackson's link led me to the MIS Associate site that I have long not been to. After a quick browsing I have to ask why some of you folks here on this forum buy from MIS. I can agree maybe their ink is so special and derserves a hefty payment from you. But when I saw their chip resetter for Epson...

When I broke off my first cap from my first OEM BCI-6 cart I spilled ink. I spilled again when I did it the 2nd time. I kept on spilling a few more times until I found that the way I hold the cartridge was responsible for the spill really. I looked at Canon's manual and sure it said not to...

Inside the exit hole there may be a spring loaded valve in it. When the cart is seated in the printer the valve is pushed in and opened. Problems of spongeless cartridges are widely reported among Epson printers. There may be similar problems for Canon printers, especially if the carts come from...

Alexandereci: the problem was probably originated from connecting a printer connected to the parallel port. When printing an image it invloves the CPU to move the image data from memory to the printer. The CPU will be pretty busy in doing that. So the system will be almost frozen doing the...

You probably will benefit significantly by using a dual processor PC like the one I use. Mine is actually a sever with 2 Pentium 3 that I picked up from a flea market. It was quite big and heavy so it was cheap from the flea market. Once I beefed it up It became the best machine I ever have. I...

Fotofreek, I agree with you totally. My post was really a response to his entry post. There is nothing wrong about good advices on how to clean printheads. Even one uses only OEM carts he or she may need to clean/wash his or her printhead someday still. Your post is excellet in pointing to the...

If there is no problem why bother to clean the printhead? I have not had a need to clean my ip8500 printhead even once. Last night I refilled all cartridges and a quick nozzle check showed it was just perfect as usual. I may be wrong. But if I don't clean it and don't have problem for a year I...

Is your printer running a lot of cleaning cycles? I don't know how that is possible but if it somehow does a lot of cleaning cycles for whatever reason it will drain all your ink fast.

Hum... It makes me wonder if I can be lazy on this issue or not. So far no spill yet. But it seems it will happen sooner or later. Better do something about it. A piece of 2x4 wood block with a hole in the middle should do it. Excellent idea , Steve. Here is another idea. Find a small carton box...