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Hello all! I need some help with my good old MP540. I've been refilling for quite a while now using the "german" method, but lately I did not use the printer a lot, and I think that the printhead got clogged. I ran through a couple of cleaning cycles, but did not get good results. Then I tried...

Thanks for the explanation. I had a look at the inks I'm using (bought from Octoinkjet.uk) and I noticed that the Cyan and yellow inks have a CLI reference, but that the magenta ink is the same for the CLI-8 and the CLI-521 carts. That's what on the website anyway. Is it possible that the...

I'm having a very similar problem with my MP540, oem canon ink tanks and image specialist inks. I purged the tanks, but still I cannot get close to a correct colour balance. :(

Well, thank you very much for your help. Actually, I did something stupid...I opened the head to see whether the problem was inside...and well, it wasn't; no contamination whatsoever, so you were probably right: I probably accidentally put some blue ink in the black tank (I'm quite floored I...

No problem ;) Well, i don't think so, but one can never be 100% sure. The thing is, I cleaned the "black" cart, let it dry, and put some fresh dye black ink into it, then I cleaned the printhead thoroughly using windex, put it all back in the printer (after letting it dry, of course), and I also...

Yep, I did. Why?

Anyone? EDIT: Today, I decided to flush the dye black cart, and I discovered something really odd: the screen where the black cart sits is blue! And when I put some tap water on the outlet of the cart, a lot of dark blue/black ink came out! That's maybe why my pics all had that blue haze on...

Hmm, what can make this happen? The black cart was one I bought recently because I thought there was something wrong with it. Well, I see ink on the sponge, but it does not come out as it should I guess.

All carts have been filled, so there should be enough ink coming to the heads, no? However, I noticed that the photo black is the only one that, when pressed, doesn't show some ink on the sponge. What else can I do?

Hi there! I've been refilling my MP540 original Canon tanks with Image Specialists inks from OctoInkjet and had no problem until recently. Well, actually there was a slight problem: a green cast on my pictures. The problem seem to have been a wrong batch of magenta inks, and Websnail sent me a...

Thank you very much for your effort! I'll be glad to report back when the magenta ink arrives. Also, I would like to buy some pigment black ink and empty carts, so if you send me the magenta ink, you can send the rest at the same time ;) I'll do the transaction now and pay with paypal, so that...

Thank you very much! I am reassured to know this, as I was struggling to get correct colours, and finally I have been thinking that those inks simply are not that great and that if I wanted correct colours, I needed to buy original Canon tanks. Thanks goodness, it's only a wrong batch :p I'll...

@websnail: Hi! I bought a set of CLI-221 inks for my Pixma MP540 several months ago, and while the inks worked quite well, I must say that I bought two new ink tanks (cyan and magenta) and have been refilling them only recently. Now, the colors went off, having a greenish tint. Then I had the...

Thanks for your messages! And yes, the cause may be that I did not refill the cart completely...at least it seemed to be full, but maybe I put it back into the printer too fast, and did not wait until the sponge got saturated.

Hi there! Thanks to some people's help out there, I finally started refilling my oem Canon carts, and while everything is working fine, I am wondering... Is it possible that the inks I am using now (inks from Image Specialists) are running low faster than the original Canon inks, or am I just...

Thanks for your advice, guys! Unfortunately, I'll have to buy a new magenta OEM tank, as I do not have any other.

Ok! After loooong testing, I came to the conclusion that the magenta ink tank has a problem. Not sure what's going on, but when I put the carts in my old printer (IP3000), everything works fine with the cyan and the yellow, but when I put the magenta tank in the printer, I get the same problem...

OK... now things are going pretty bad for me :( I bought a new black dye oem cart, and while printing a black sheet seems ok and dark black, when I print a grey chart, all the grey shades seem to have a greenish tint! Do you think there is a problem with the printhead...

Hi. I am using a MP540 and Image Specialists inks, but I took the chip from a non-oem black cartridge, and installed it on a oem blue cartridge. The cart was washed thoroughly, but it seems there was some blue ink left.

Hi guys! I wanted to ask you something. I wanted to refill my OEM carts, and as I had no black cart (the small one), I just washed a blue one, and injected black ink in it. But I think there must have been some blue ink left, as now when I print, all my pics have a blue/green tint! Finally, I...