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By the way I had an idea of solving clogs on ink printers and would like to hear some opinions on it: The idea is to get some used ink tanks with new chips or reseted chips, so that the printer (this is not aimed only at Canon but at ink printers in general) would accept them, but instead of...

Thank You. A little update: I was able to trick the printer a little - I wanted to wipe the printhead (nozzles) from underneath with a soaked paper towel and since I din't want to disassemble it I ran a few (7 to be precise) nozzle checks and since this printer is wider than A4 i put two soaked...

By the way, is the imagePROGRAF PRO-1000 a better printer in terms of maintenance? I am thinking about getting my printer to work and if I succeed then maybe sell it and get a PRO-1000. At least it has an easy accessible wast ink tank (maintenance tank).....

Thank You for the instructions, at this moment I think I will wait with the disassembly until there is nothing else for me left to do ;-).

I just looked into the printer and saw that space where the printhead (carriage) moves is a lite dirty so i wiped it with a paper towel and some flushing fluid and then I found out, that the space in the middle (black on the picture) is soaked with ink. Is this the place where the ink is dumped...

Thank You for the answer. Just to clarify one thing. When my wife wanted to print the printer did not let her print. Just after the cleaning cycle instead of running a nozzle check she send one or two photos and the printer accepted it and printed it just without the ink. When I unplugged the...

Mr @The Hat thank You. I will be very carfull with this printer for I read this whole thread and You mentioned that this is a inteligent printer (whatever this may be). I have run one cleaning cycle for all 3 units, than two cleaning cycles for unit nr 3 (because only red waas missing), and one...

Hello, I have a Pixma Pro 1 as well and I after several months of not printing I got some errors and printign problems but after a few cleaning cycles I got almost everything fine, but R was missing completely, all other colors were 100% ok, only on CO there were 2 rectangles that were quite...