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I reprocessed eight of the failed carts. This time I baked them for seven hours. Nada. Even though they look nice and white, they will not suck any ink from the reservoir into the foam. Apparently there is something that happens to carts when they have been abused from which Grandad's method...

Well, my initial attempts at Grandad's purging method for BCI-6 carts has yielded less than I had hoped. I purged eight BCI-6 carts and four BCI-3BK carts (all OEM, of vaying ages and conditions). When it came time to refill my "second-chance virgins", things began very well, indeed. I have...

Folks, I'm only a newbie here so I hesitate to post this for fear of being thought rude. Nevertheless, long ago, when I was a youngun, I took a degree in physics. When I read here that some of you were using "ionized water" a flag went up. As I recalled, there couldn't be such a thing. What are...

Hmm. Just after I ordered some nifty-looking reservoir top bottles (http://www.inkjetsaver.com/tools.html), you tell me there is an even better way. Is there no end of cleveness? I hope not. May I ask why you opted for the 2oz bottles rather than the 4oz bottles?

Thanks for the encouragement, Rob. I am cleaning the carts because they are there. They are almost all OEM carts. The sheer number of them is painful. I want to rescue something from all those bucks I threw down the maw of Canon. More seriously, I want to print a lot of photos, avoid the...

Well, since no one came forward with experience under his or her belt, I visited the hardware store and rigged Grandad's aparatus for BCI3-eBK. Initial result suggest that whatever the solvents in the ink, besides water, they are compatable with a water flush. I have tried five carts so far...

Grandad's method for cleaning BCI-6 carts is just great. Before I go out and buy the adapters I will need to use it for my BCI-3eBK pigmented cartridges, are there any gotchas? Has anyone any experience adapting his method to those cartridges? Thanks, Stan