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Spot on. It's something many people would do occasionally anyway, so it saves the tedium of scrubbing one's fingers with a small brush. Some inks really stick to skin.

In a fountain pen forum it was recommended to deal with inky fingers by taking a shower and shampooing ones hair vigorously.

I'm not sure I can get hold of propylene glycol, but glycerol is available. What does "2%" mean? I can get the blue-colored isopropyl alcohol, is that good enough or do I need something cleaner? Will demineralised water work instead of distilled? (Less hassle since I've already got some.)

@The Hat : I'll keep it in mind if/when the need for another printer arises. Do the Maxify printers do a decent job of printing photos?

Not quite two rounds of black. The indicator bar was on the lowest level before triggering the "low toner" warning when the toner actually ran out. Color still prints fine, but I haven't gone very far over with them. The toner cartridges aren't chipped, there's a simple mechanical indicator to...

I found the reset instructions here: http://www.inkowl.com/?p=tnreset No chip, only a mechanical indicator that tells the printer that the toner cartridge is new. The starter cartridges don't have this indicator, but you can buy it for a few euros on ebay. It's supposed to be quite easy to...

I have no opinion on Ricoh printers, but I'm quite happy with my Brother DCP-9015DCW. It's not perfect, but it's a decent document printer and it's fairly easy to override the toner gauge when it reports empty too early..

I have two different sets of compatible 550/551 carts. I don't know the brand, but they have auto-reset chips and the ink level reported by the carts drops slower than the actual ink level, so I have to inspect the carts manually and refill as needed, whatever the chip reports. The sponges look...

There was no color cast on the canvas print, skin color and bright tones looked fairly correct. It was contrast and dark colors that were out of whack. I don't think I kept the bad image (it was a little while ago), but I can print another this weekend.

So I bought a Brother DCP-9015DCW after struggling with my inkjet and deciding I needed a more reliable document printer. It came with "starter" toner cartridges with reduced capacity (stated roughly 700 pages black, 500 pages color). I printed until it indicated "black toner empty" and refused...

I tried some canvas "paper" from Clas Ohlson in my dye printer, using quality aftermarket inks and the printing software that came with the printer. A color print looked terrible, mud-like browns instead of blacks. BW printing looked OK, dark grey instead of deep black but not in a way that...

I'd assume the "EcoTank compatible" inks are the ones he'd recommend for your EcoTank printer.

If you use refillable carts with autoreset chips you can absolutely not trust the ink level reported by the printer. You must inspect the physical ink level in each cartridge manually.

I suppose it would be possible to fit an off-size chip by sticking the chip on top of the cartridge, and then having a ribbon cable go from the contact points on the new chip with new contact points on top of the old chip (insulated from it). But it'd be fiddly work and I don't know if it's...

EDIT: Sorry, I missed that you were asking about resetting, not refilling. The instructions I link don't seem to mention resetting HP carts. 123refills.net has instructions for many cartridges. I haven't tried following them myself. http://uni-kit.com/pdf/inkjetrefillinstructions.pdf As far...

Well, I've dribbled a fair amount of cleaning fluid through it and soaked it until it seems there's no more color coming out. I'll leave it to dry until tomorrow afternoon, and see if I have a printer that works when I reinstall it.

First I watched this video by a fellow apparently trying to break his printer in as many simultaneous ways as possible: https://youtu.be/isOCwleSZLM Then I looked around and found that the cartridge carriage of my Pixma MG6650 actually comes out fairly easily. I just pulled it gently but firmly...

I thought the GO was meant to be applied selectively according to the gloss of the inks, not an even overcoat?

Does anybody know if the 550/551 resetters also work with auto-reset chips?

The Colormunki is rather expensive, so I would prefer to just adjust the print driver. (Which I can do in Windows, but not in Linux :( ) Besides, no amount of profiling will get rid of the banding on plain paper.