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If the cake has faded that much, then it's probably good for no one but the chickens. :eek: This is why you make sure that the ink you use is good quality, because I have had images start looking like this within a week.

This is a picture I took a few months ago of a butterfly in a garden. (I don't know what breed of butterfly it is) Sometimes whe I am bored, I will try and print this photo on unusual paper sizes, like index cards. (oh someone help me, I am a huge printer addict! :D)

Brother printers have piezoelectric element printheads like epsons. Canon printers have thermal printheads that vaporise the ink into a bubble that then pushes itself out of the nozzle. Because of this, the brother ink may not work well in the Canon printer. EDIT: PeterBJ offered a better...

If you intend on printing black ink only, then it will be fine. Almost all printers (6500a included) use black pigment ink. You would just be able to directly print on the material in black only without any modifications to the printer.

It might work, but it could ruin your printhead. Once pigment ink dries, it is very difficult to clear the printhead (personal experience). If you have another HP printer that you don't care about, you could try the pigment in their first, and if the printer seems fine, then maybe try it in the...

It sounds like an electrical problem with the printer, as Smile said. If you can contact Canon or wherever you ordered it from, you could probably get a refund.

I got Windows 10 to upgrade from Windows 7, and it is very slow and freezes up sometimes, so I will probably stick with Win 7 and Ubuntu. My favorite printers as of now are both HP and Epson. Epson printers have printheads that don't overheat, but HP printers (especially older ones like the...

If Canon does do this, the printhead would somehow have to be replaceable. Since having an "insert" to substitute cartridges wouldn't probably be something most companies would do nowadays, so the printhead design would probably be something like the HP 88 printheads which fit in like standard...

@The Hat That is EXACTLY what I do. I also will sometimes look up "flowers" and "sunset" in google images, then print some of the results.:rolleyes:

Well, I was able to suck the air out of the yellow ink tube, and now yellow prints fine. However, I hear pigment black is nasty stuff when it comes to clogs, so that is probably why black won't print. (The nozzles are firing, it just is severely clogged.)

Thank you. I don't know how to test the purge unit, but I sprayed some windex on it. (That seemed to help with the clogging) I figured the black was pigment, because the black cartridge is entirely opaque. Too bad the optical sensor was discontinued. (I noticed how well it worked when Magenta...

@PeterBJ I don't think the printhead is actually dead, just severely clogged. It prints faint traces of black (I have seen this with clogged printers before. Also, I use Windows XP for some stuff, so I could still use it on there.

Another one... You see a craigslist ad saying "Looking for our brother" and immediately think they lost a printer. o_O

I actually used to have one (I might still have it) by that specific brand. I always wondered what the name came from...

Well my compatibles came today, and they are really full. (so full that one splattered yellow all over my hand. I didn't have rubbing alcohol, so I just soaked the printhead in 50/50 windex and warm water. Lots of ink came out. So I let it soak in there for a few hours. When I took it out and...

-You always have "colorful" fingers (from the inks) -You can look around your room and see at least 3 printers, 2 nonworking -You always have printers you are fixing on the dining room table -A printer has "bitten" you at least 5 times in one day (when the printhead returns to the parking...

Hello, I have been having this problem for about 5 months now. I tried to install a mod for Minecraft, and the site must have not been legit, because the next day, there are ads everywhere. They were from a scamware called Pricechop (called itself PariceCHop in extentions) I deleted it, and the...

@PeterBJ Thanks for the service manual and the unclogging method. I will try it if the others don't work. Also, you guessed it , the cartridges are from the printer! :D

Ok, thanks. I don't know why, but I love these old Canon printers. Possibly because a BJC-3000 was our first printer. I don't have any dreft, but I do have windex, rubbing alcohol, witch hazel, and Hydrogen peroxide. Would any of those work? Also, any idea on how black got into the yellow...

Hello. I found my dream printer (a Canon Multipass f30, I didn't even know these existed!) at Goodwill yesterday, and I have a few questions about it: 1) How do these printers know when a cartridge is empty? I looked everywhere for a sensor or chip, and I can't find a thing that could detect ink...