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  1. Grazer5

    Printer suitable for 1,000 plus greeting cards per week

    Sounds like your printheads are overheating. Where I work, they tried Epsons years ago and had all kinds of troubles with them. We currently run 40 Canon Pro-100’s with refilled carts and we run all day long, two shifts actually.
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    Canon Pixma MX870 - 'ink absorber pad almost full'

    Good luck! I sent some of our Pro-100’s to the local Canon service center to have the pads replaced and they said they couldn’t get the parts! This, from a factory service center!
  3. Grazer5

    InDesign Color-profile Problems on MAC - Canon Pro-10

    Try setting the Printer profile in InDesign to " Document RGB" at the top of the drop down list. Works for most things, but a custom profile is the way to go. Then you can make a preset in the print driver with adjusted colour, Canon's don't like to print without their own colour management on...
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    Pro-100 Cyan problems

    We print 90% of our jobs in HQ because the image requires it. We're dealing with corporate logos, which you can't be trying to reduce the amount of coverage. Mr. Hat, we change out with a third left in the reservoir always. Mike taught me that a long time ago. Unfortunately I can't run in quiet...
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    Pro-100 Cyan problems

    Well.... Mike is correct in the theory of repeating the same image over and over. We've been running some insane jobs lately, one was 10,000 prints!, but I've been doing this for years now and have never run into this. The other colors on some of these jobs are being hit just as hard and...
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    Pro-100 Cyan problems

    I haven't seen anyone posting anything similar to this, so I'm hoping someone can help out. We've been running into serious trouble with only the Cyans on our fleet of Pro-100's. Tried different inks, (3), cartridges and they all run into the cyan plugging the head. not a good thing when so...
  7. Grazer5

    Chosing between the Canon Pro-100 and G-4200 for printing CD sleeves

    That is usually the case, unless the box says Digital. then it's short grain;)
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    Chosing between the Canon Pro-100 and G-4200 for printing CD sleeves

    For what it's worth, a Pro-100 prints very well on uncoated card stocks. We use Neenah environment 80 or 100 lb. cover all the time. Just make sure the grain is short, or running the short dimension of your sheet. If you buy from a paper merchant, they'll have what's called Digital Ready stock...
  9. Grazer5

    BASICS of understanding Canon Carts and Long Term Storage

    Well, I know what I do and use isn't what's considered normal ( 15 Pro-100's ), but over the years since the Pro-100 came out we have been refilling carts. Both OEM and aftermarket. The OEM carts will always need to be flushed out and dried at some point because the printers create a wall of...
  10. Grazer5

    Sources for empty CLI-42 cartridges?

    Yeah, you're right there Mike.
  11. Grazer5

    Sources for empty CLI-42 cartridges?

    You can buy sets of CLI-42 carts from China. They work perfectly, we have about 12 sets in our collection. In fact they're sponge is different, so that they almost never have flow problems.
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    CLI-42 Cart Flush - First Attempt

    Well, As someone who does this for a living where we refill on average 150 carts a week I have some comments. The OP's picture is a little overfull, but not by much. New carts are filled to almost the top, so that's what we do. No problems. We use a hose attached to a faucet that fits in the...
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    update: printer refill numbers - was 983 refills, now 2,000 refills. much thanks to this site and its members

    Where I work, we probably average around 200 - 300 refills a week. I've had several carts retired because the chip just wouldn't reset anymore! We use a powered Red Setter we got from Precision Colors, and keep 2 backups because we had one of those wear out too!
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    Think this cartridge needs to be flushed?

    Definitely needs to be flushed. The bubbles must be horrendous!
  15. Grazer5

    PRO-100 Ink P! CHEAP!!ad repacements

    Turbguy, have you figured out how to disassemble a Pro-100? I have a couple now with the dreaded " Absorber Full " warning. We sent one off to the shop and they couldn't get the parts, and they're a factory depot! I've read about people doing their own cleaning on the old 9000's and I'd like to...
  16. Grazer5

    More on The Canon Optical Sensor

    Actually Mike, we've been running into this problem with our fleet of Pro-100's since we started to refill the tanks before they were dry. I use a Redsetter BTW. What's better is just to visually check each tank and change them out before empty if possible, then reset and fill to the top. We've...
  17. Grazer5

    printer recommendations: 1500+ color pages per month

    Or you can go with multiple printers like me. We just had some numbers given to my dept., I ran 250,000 plus pages ( 11.5 x 17.5 ) on our Pro-100's this year!
  18. Grazer5

    Pro-100 Replacement Printhead problems

    Yes, they got it to print with the new head, which I could not do.
  19. Grazer5

    Pro-100 Replacement Printhead problems

    Well, after talking to Canon on the phone, I took one of our machines plus one of the replacement heads to our local service shop. They didn't have a problem! They thought, as did the Canon rep, that it might be a bad purge unit. Apparently not, I have 13 active and 5 in storage and this has...
  20. Grazer5

    Pro-100 Replacement Printhead problems

    I don't know if that's it because I've put the previous head back in and it will print those channels. I think it's a bunch of bum heads. I've sent an email to Canon about it.
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