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This might indeed be a part of the problem. Refilling the cli-521 cart with cli-8 ink, I realized that while the ink colours was very close in the bottles, the difference once printed is quite significant.

Thanks for your patience and experimenting. It is becoming really strange. Yes, my cart was freshly purged, so there was no pollution from another ink. I will try to scan the pictures tomorrow to show the differences, but as you said, it's far from easy. Interesting observation about the...

Ok, I just tried that, replacing the cli-521 cyan ink with the cli-8 ink, and the results are not good. The W2032 is darker, and resulting pictures have a very pronounced blue colour cast, and at the same time the green colour cast remains. What would be interesting in my case, is to try...

Thanks for the link. Yes, I use the right paper settings. Also, I played with the colours balance settings in the printer driver, and I get very decent results with some tweaking, but unfortunately, I cannot get those settings into the printer as "default settings", meaning I cannot print...

Wow, that is interesting. Your i865 image looks quite close to my Mp540 results. @PeterBJ: indeed, your picture looks much nicer. I wonder how that comes. From the extended nozzle check, it seems like my MP540 is in good shape...

Thank you again for the precious information. So here is what I get with my MP540 (by the way, the cleaning methods you and The Hat showed me worked a treat! It's not 100% perfect, but it's very usable for all but the smallest prints. I think the head is somewhat tired, but the results I get far...

"The colour match for the CLI-8 inks from IS is really good, the ink set for the CLI-521 cartridges is a bit colder in colour, so I think that you will find that IS inks and Sihl paper is a really good combination for Pixma 5200." That is strange, because I received my ink kit for the Cli-8...

Many thanks for this info. Lol, did not know about windows 8 trick :D Sure will not tell him. Maybe it's the moment to grab some bargains with people believing that their printer has become incompatible. Oh and do you have an idea about the hard to refill cart? edit: about the service manual...

Tank you for you opinions :) Ok, so I got my "new" ip5200, and what can I say: wow, the print quality is superb, and it is fast as hell with the big print head! I'm a happy camper :) The guy had to let it go because he bought a Windows 8 computer, and that Canon did not make a driver for this...

Hi to the community! First of all I want to thank you awesome people for providing your precious help to newbies like me, and sharing your knowledge. I know that generally, the best solution for refill is using the original Canon carts, as they are the best quality, and guarantee a perfect ink...

So, MP640, anything new?

Thanks for the suggestion. I will give it a try. But what do you mean by "50cm of it"?

Oh, ok. Great, thank you :)

Ok, I performed an extended nozzle check and I got some interesting results. Clearly, it's much better than before, but still not perfect. I can already see medium magenta, and partially medium cyan, but light cyan is still not visible. I would not have much hope normally, but as I see that the...

?? :hu Well ok, after a couple of prints, the colours went completely wrong. They are completely red. So I suspected an ink flow problem, but when I print on normal paper, the colours are back normal! How could this be?

Well, guys, some more news here :D I let the printhead during the night on a paper towel with just some Windex (had no ammonia at hand), and a while ago I put the printhead back into the printer for a test print. Some strange things happen here, as the simple test pattern is about perfect, but...

Sorry for the off topic question, but I am considering a chip resetter and I was wondering, if I don't refill my cart to the top, will the chip still indicate that its full, or is there something like an optical sensor or something? I am asking this because I generally don't refill to full cart...

Thanks for the links. Here are the results from the print test. I don't really know how to interpret this ...:idunno

So you believe that the printhead might still be clogged? Doesn't this look more like a dead head?

No one can help me? I tried another cleaning and got the same results.