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On becoming the most prolific poster on the printer forum. And many, many thanks for your valuable contributions. Shortly after you joined the forum, I was able to relax in my own posting efforts. Thanks again, George

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This wireless printer uses unchipped BCI-6 dye and a BCI-3eBk pigment black cartridges. Comes with a full set of empty cartridges that have not be drilled. The printer does not work, it prints blank pages. If you put the print head in another printer, it will damage the other printer. I also...

My favorite printer, an iP4000R, (favorite because it has wireless), stopped working in the middle of a print run. It will only print a blank page. Nothing on a nozzle check. I assume this is an electrical problem in the printer. Is there any hope that I can fix the iP4000R? I'm wondering if...

I gave my niece and her husband an MP780 but they have 64-bit Windows 7 and the downloaded driver from Canon won't recognize the printer when it asks for it to be plugged in. It does recognize the scanner. Anyone know a workaround or fix?

I have finally found what I consider to be the best way to refill the popular Canon cartridges. By "best" I mean a method that does not compromise the cartridge in any way and ends up with cartridges looking just like OEM, that is with a little bit of white sponge material at the top and no...

Tomorrow, Tuesday, November 16, 2010, Staples will be selling their $100 laminator for $30 (one day only). Will laminated photos be protected from UV and ozone (or whatever) just like putting them under glass or in an album? I'm wondering if I should get one and include laminated test specimens...

I'm planning on doing some fade tests and I was wondering how many different kinds of photo papers there are. This week, Staples is having a half-price sale on some of their HP photo papers so I want to get some of them but I'm not sure which ones to get to have a good representation of the...

First some background information: I had been refilling BCI-3eBk cartridges with Inktec pigment black ink for several years and supplying these refilled cartridges to several of my friends that had MP760 and MP780 printers. None of these printers had nozzle clogging problems but last year every...

I would like to lay down four patches of the four dye ink colors, something like you see with a nozzle check, except I don't need the photo cyan and photo magenta and I don't need the pigment black. I could use the nozzle check except that there is a lot of white space between the dots. I want...

It's very easy to drain all the ink out of a Canon cartridge. Start with a sheet of paper towel (kitchen paper, I believe it is called in the UK): Fold it in half: Fold it in half the other way: Fold it in half again: And once more the other way: Now it has sixteen layers of...

I know that there is a difference in Canon OEM magenta and cyan inks for BCI-6 and CLI-8 cartridges, so how can Hobbicolors offer just one set of inks (UW8) for all the newer cartridges and the older BCI-6 cartridges? They used to supply a set of inks (WC6) for BCI-6 cartridges but they have...

Here's an age-old question that has never been answered--until now: Before the BCI-6 line of dye inks, Canon produced a very similar BCI-3e line of dye inks. You can still buy them. The question is: are they interchangeable? I recently received an old printer that had the three BCI-3e yellow...

This information has been posted elsewhere but it was unnecessarily confusing so I'm making my own set of easy-to-follow instructions: 1) Press the following keys in sequence: Copy-Menu-Scan-Copy-Scan. The display will say: SERVICE MODE #1 SSSW 2) Press the V key six times. The display will...

One of the improvements that Canon provided in their black pigment ink when they went from the chipless BCI-3eBk cartridge to the chipped PGI-5Bk cartridge was that printed text wouldn't smear when you used a highlighter on it. I have done a little investigation to see if this claim were true...

1) Put paper in the Auto Sheet Feeder (even if the Feed Switch is set for the cassette). 2) Press the following keys in sequence: Copy-Menu-Scan-Copy-Scan. The display will say: SERVICE MODE #1 SSSW 3) Press the ^ key once. The display will say: SERVICE MODE TEST MODE 4) Press OK. The display...

WARNING: Please do not attempt this procedure--read post #6 before continuing. It is very easy to cut a hole in just the right location to extend the two tubes coming out of the purge pump on the MP780 or MP760 printers. You can raise the printer up on blocks and place a shallow jar, bowl or...

After having taken apart two broken printers without concern for putting them back together, I learned how to take them apart for the purpose of replacing the waste ink pads and putting them back together. I actually cleaned the pads from a well-saturated MP760 but it is a mess, you really...

I recently took apart a Canon MP780 and MP760 to see what the waste ink pads looked like. This post shows what you can only see if you take one of these printers completely apart, that is, you have to take off both side panels, the scanner, the top of the printer and finally the entire printer...