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I wonder if this is totally true with all models of canon multifuctionals. For example I now have a non functional Canon MP730. Due to a bad printhead and who knows what else, it can no longer print or directly output a in coming fax. But it works perfectly fine to do to an outgoing fax. When...

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I totally agree with fotofreek on this point, but I suggest there are better ways to do it. I may not have a home business but I...

The i series of Canon printers were the last to use the BCI-3 series of color inks. And the succeeding ip pixma series featured both the sleeker black pixma common case design and also introduced the BCI-6 series of color inks. The color may not be radically different than the older BCI-3's...

Thanks for all your help. As for my own existing troubleshooting, I can freely move the printhead assembly by hand back and forth, but it does not move by printer power. I did find a small piece of ripped paper in the track below the printhead, but removing it changed nothing. I will look closer...

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First of all, I already know, the sheetfeed unit, which I assume is the lower tray is not needed for printing. If QM2-1220 is...

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- looks like I may be wrong, I get a 12 alternating orange green flashes, a slight pause, and then 12 more. Not sure what it...

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No I have not swapped print heads. But using the old printer with the original its printhead replugged into the computer...

After six years and at least 9000 pages, almost all on dirt cheap refill ink and original print head, that day came when my wife turned on the printer, and it would not print. A little superficial troubleshooting on my part showed the problem. #1 the flashing light that on turn on that is...

For a guess, Canon is now moving away from the CLI-5&8 chipped cartridges because chip resetters exist and they become almost as easy to refill as the old BCI-3&5 non-chipped cartridges. So it calls for a new line of Canon printers based around a new cartridge line type with newly designed...

Thank you for the reply nche11. Now the question is. (a) Does anyone know why it fails to see the printhead? (b) Is it a permanent condition or might more print head cleaning cure it?

I have an old canon mp730 printer I had somewhat put out to pasture. I have recently fired it back up, and no matter what I do, when I power it up, I get this message on my LCD screen of a "wrong cartridge". I have pulled and rinsed the printhead, it seems very clean, reinstalled newly...

I believe that the official Canon listed ink amount for a BCI-6 is 14 ml. I also recall a very old post made by JD to the effect that usable ink is around 75% of that volume when low ink triggers. The post by JD was scientific in MHO, and deduced from weight of totally empty cartridge, the...

To horsecharles, While printer prices and options are somewhat location specific---$99.00 sounds very overpriced to me on a chipped ip1600---for around $85.00 you should be able to get something like the chipped Canon ip4200 or 4300 which take the much larger CLI-5&8 series of...

To my knowledge no currently produced Canon printer uses the BCI-3&6 cartridges. But the recent set can be divided into general purpose and photoprinter---most recent models are General purpose---ip3000, ip4000,ip5000---four or five cartridge models.---and in the MP750,760, & 780 in MP form...

I somewhat disagree with AlienSteve, When you are talking about costs and color----an inkjet is by in large the way to go---but thats an if and only if you refill. But we are talking volume printing on I assume A-3 paper---taking mean figures---100-200 books---at 50-100 pages each yields a...

Its my understanding that the new CLI-5&8 clone cartridges merely offer a machined in pocket to hold the chip that came out of the OEM CLI-5&8 cartridges. In no way is the chip reset---the chip merely is transferred from one cartridge to another.---and no real benefit is offered---one could...

A short list of MP recent models using the BCI-3&6 non-chipped cartridges are the MP730,750,760, and 780.

I have always used water for my dye based and pigment ink---what I usually do is to refill in a stainless steel sink--I have a container of water in the bottom of the sink---after I am done with a given ink---I dip my syringe needle into the water container--suck up some water---and then eject...

To matthare2k, The advantage of cartridges with just one color ink in the cartridge is that when it runs out you replace just that color.----but a conventional tri-color cartridge may have just one color run out---with a considerable amnount of the other color inks remaining--but since one ink...

To Gean, From what I see, a color laser is only equal in color cost printing to something like a Canon ip4200---OEM cartridges to OEM toners---and forget photoprinting---thats something a color laser will not do. And some 2-4 K prints down the road you will face a $300 or better expense...