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Perhaps your printer settings are still on Matte paper ?

The contamination is related to the time of inactivity and the ink level differences (ink of full cartridges will seep into the more empty ones). In my printer it is almost always magenta being invaded by cyan. Strange enough with yellow, even low, I didn't observe it since long. To be clear...

I suppose this is what happens (when you do not print enough). As @Artur5 found out, the printhead has a buffer with a few ml ink for every colour. Most of the time the contamination does not rise into the cartridge. Why doesn't this occur with fresh OEM carts (or does it) ? Maybe they are...

Can confirm previous experiences. Since I refill the OEM carts with ink from GI-56 bottles (for the ink tank Maxify types) everything works quite well. Only issue remaining is cross-contamination when the ink levels differ too much. I solve this by printing a number of sheets with the infected...

I have 2 printers and a scanner connected with a 5m USB 2.0 cable with an amplifier (with 3 connectors) at the end. Never had any problems. But it is old and rather slow technology. My Maxify is connected via Wifi as a network printer. This way any PC, phone or tablet can print directly...

As long as I refill with 3th party inks I always inspected nozzle checks with a magnifying glass to detect the first signs of clogging. Red pigments have been the most suspicious. As discussed magenta was the only color where Octoinkjet had some clogging issues. Except for Precisioncolors I...

I purchased inks from Precisioncolors for years at minimum cost (2 bottles each time to avoid taxes). Best (Canon) 3th party inks I ever had. Sadly enough he had many problems sending overseas this way and the official route was too expensive. Mike must have invested an enormous amount of time...

For most - if not all less than 15-20yrs old - the drivers still are built in. Try via the device manager.

WIN11 24H2 seems to install with another default settings for color profiles, but I did not observe particular problems myself. Not related to color issues, but since I reinstalled WIN11 from scratch on my desktop - always updated from WIN8 to 10 to 11 - it is much snappier I must say. Still...

Just as the pigment inks in my PRO-10 and Maxify have negligible gloss differences on a fair number of glossy (and in particular pearl) papers. Never seen the dreaded "bronzing" either. (Dis)advantages of both ink types are grossly exagerated. Since I mostly print glossy, if I had to start...

From own experience I agree with @Artur5. Buy a PFI-106M cart (130ml) to refill. PFI-1000M (80ml) would do also (no experience). Not cheap but half price/ml versus PGI-72M. Maybe you could find an expired one on eBay (they last forever). Since you have to replace only a few colors your average...

Interesting discussion again. BUT as I understand from the many positive reviews of the ET-8550, the dye inks - as genuine Epson - should have a fairly good fade resistance. The printer seems to be a star in making very glossy prints. So why would you want to fill it with pigment inks - except...

It seems you live in the States, where Canon was giving these printers (I suppose more PRO-100 than PRO-10) away with a pack of paper, so you probably will find even a new PRO-100. Since you are used to a pigment printer, where also 3th party ink have a rather good fade resistance, (let's say...

Very interesting rehearsal ! BE CAREFUL. I used v5204 several times yours ago and was able to reset a PRO-9500, PRO-10 and Maxify (to test, not because the counter was full). I launched it again (without reading the manual) and it was placed in quarantaine by Avast (IMO a false positive due to...

None of these printers have a replaceable maintenance tank. But the internal ink absorber is large, most users probably will never fill it. Just in case you can reset the counter and deviate the purge tubes to an external "potty". So the main problem stays finding a replacement printhead...

Let's face it, there are no refillable printers anymore, and those that were are getting old (and should be avoided to buy used). Refill tools and ink are not cheap either. If I had to start over I would go for the Epson ET-8550 (as long as Canon doesn't offer something comparable).

It is also understood that only genuine Canon cartridges are refillable (forever), aftermarket ones are useless.

That nozzle check is probably recoverable with good management. Try to view with a loupe or by scanning with high resolution to see the individual dots. You will see that white lines often still show lighter and smeared out dots, meaning the ink flow is not completely interupted. No experience...

Since I refill with genuine Canon ink, I haven't encountered many problems. However, every printhead will fail sooner or later—fingers crossed!

This is certainly so for the consumer dye printers. But in the photo printers the PRO-9500 (pigment) had a rather short living printhead. No idea if the PRO-9000 (dye) head was based on this one, but the ones of both the PRO-10 (pigment) and PR0-100 (dye) live much longer.