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Thanks Pharmacist, that's brilliant; I shall PM you straightaway. Yes, the nozzle check is fine, and the cartridges are the fresh Hobbicolor items. I look forward to trying the profiles.

Thanks for your replies guys. Tyamada, unfortunately I'm on a Mac, and the ddisoftware is PC only. Trainman, the inks are indeed the latest UW-8's. I'm printing from Photoshop, and setting the Color Handling to 'Photoshop Manages Colors' (This is on a Mac by the way, so it may differ slightly...

Following a number of positive comments here, I started using Hobbicolors replacement ink a while back. I have been doing mainly graphics and CAD work up to now, but I have just started trying some decent quality prints on quality paper, using ICC profiles etc. This has shown up a problem; I am...

Smile, I have already on order a Hobbicolors set of inks from the states; I have had it with aftermarket carts! However, I am interested to know what the problem is with these, and whether I can get my money back!

I am having problems with a number of G&G carts on my i9950. There is a capillary feed to the sponge from the reservoir, which zig-zags up and down the side before entering the sponge above the outlet, at about the half way level, unlike the OE carts which seem to have a direct feed from the...

Before my shenanigans with G&G carts (see previous post), I tried to get some OA100's. A deal on Ebay from Abacus UK 24/7 looked good; 24 OA100 carts for about 1 each. The picture on the listing showed (and still does on all their listings) OA100 boxes. As it seemed too good to be true, I...

Hi Following Neil's exhaustive testing and advice (thanks Neil), I just purchased a batch of G&G cartridges from Ink World here in the UK, for my newly acquired i9950. Firstly, although there is a 'use before' box on the boxes, none of them have a date printed. Secondly, there are two types of...

Trigger, It's sorted! By the way, I didn't remove the 'caps' (white plastic purge receptacles), only the removeable hard pads and the rubber pad housing (half the problem is what to call these bits!). The problem became obvious on tipping the whole chassis up to look directly under the purge...

A thought just struck me: Trigger, I'm not surprised you were perplexed by my rash assumption that the two forward holes lead straight to the sump; of course it makes no sense to have a direct outlet, as it would be impossible to suck ink through the heads! Silly me. So the fact that water goes...

Trigger, yes I did as you say, ran a few deep clean cycles with everything in situ, with the chassis elevated to observe what was happening. There is a slight misunderstanding on the matter of blocking holes; there are actually four drain holes; the two at the front lead straight down into the...

Thanks Trigger37, and congrats on the big 300! Right, it is almost certainly the purge pump; all the parts go through the motions, wipers go to and fro, but nothing coming out of the purge tubes. To make certain, I removed the two pads from the rubber purge head, blocked the direct drain holes...

Yes, it is looking like a purge unit problem; so tonight I removed the covers, and had a closer look at the purge unit. Removing the two purge head pads reveals four outlets; the two at the front lead straight down into the waste sump, while the two towards the back lead to the purge pump. It's...

Thanks Trigger 37 and Tin Ho for your replies. Tin Ho, the cartridges are OEM but have been refilled, and were topped up when I picked it up yesterday, and all the vents are clear. Trigger 37, there is no sign of any ink atall getting through the heads after checking with a damp pad; the...

Hi My first time on this very informative forum; hope someone can help! I've just acquired a i9950, and as there were just a few stripes on the test print, which couldn't be eradicated with a couple of deep cleans, I took the print head out, and cleaned it in line with a number of suggestions...