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Just bought an S9000 on Ebay; the seller showed a decent nozzlecheck on the listing, but now it's arrived the nozzlecheck is showing a regular 'battlement' error pattern on black and yellow (see below). I think this has been mentioned before as a possible electrical problem; is it normally the...

Hope someone can help with a problem on my i9950, which is driving me to distraction! I started getting slightly wayward printing with a few stripes on photo magenta, and intermittent problems on other colours. Normal cleaning didn't seem to help, neither did cleaning the head, so I surmised...

Following a number of positive comments here, I started using Hobbicolors replacement ink a while back. I have been doing mainly graphics and CAD work up to now, but I have just started trying some decent quality prints on quality paper, using ICC profiles etc. This has shown up a problem; I am...

I am having problems with a number of G&G carts on my i9950. There is a capillary feed to the sponge from the reservoir, which zig-zags up and down the side before entering the sponge above the outlet, at about the half way level, unlike the OE carts which seem to have a direct feed from the...

Before my shenanigans with G&G carts (see previous post), I tried to get some OA100's. A deal on Ebay from Abacus UK 24/7 looked good; 24 OA100 carts for about 1 each. The picture on the listing showed (and still does on all their listings) OA100 boxes. As it seemed too good to be true, I...

Hi Following Neil's exhaustive testing and advice (thanks Neil), I just purchased a batch of G&G cartridges from Ink World here in the UK, for my newly acquired i9950. Firstly, although there is a 'use before' box on the boxes, none of them have a date printed. Secondly, there are two types of...

Hi My first time on this very informative forum; hope someone can help! I've just acquired a i9950, and as there were just a few stripes on the test print, which couldn't be eradicated with a couple of deep cleans, I took the print head out, and cleaned it in line with a number of suggestions...