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    canon i960 vs pro9500 or pro 9000

    Virginia, when you buy a high end printer you will want it to be capable of high end printing as well as low end printing sometimes. It may be desirable for your final print to be at the best you will also want to print economically before that. You will likely make many editing, including...
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    Refill Epsons--No more compatibles

    "Progressive death my friends. Intermittent 7 orange flases, then goes away works fine for a few minutes, then gets wacky again, it is DEAD now. Won't come back." Sigh! You still don't get it. You are confused by the final symptom of a dead print head and the clogging symptom before you killed...
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    Is this a Clogged Printhead? from an i950

    It was an ink starvation to begin with. Then got killed by improper soaking indicated by blinking light. You can't say it's an electrical problem because it died with an indication of blink light. When a cancer patient dies you will say death by the illness but not say death by stop breathing...
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    Is this a Clogged Printhead? from an i950

    Again it is bad ink and bad cartridges that have ink flow problems. Reduced ink flow is the primary cause of print head clogging. If treated immediately and correctly the clogs can be completely cleared. The nozzle check print is a solid proof of clogging and mistreatment. Bad ink and bad...
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    Refill Epsons--No more compatibles

    Mikling wrote: "So we were all wrong, not bad inks not refill method or whatever but simply OLD age and wear and tear." Trigger, the fact is in these words. It is bad ink, bad cartridge that caused clogging to the print head followed by mistreatment leading to its final death indicated by...
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    Is this a Clogged Printhead? from an i950

    Why is it not a clogged print head? From your words it is a typical clogged print head that is mistreated.
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    canon i960 vs pro9500 or pro 9000

    Pigment ink in general has a narrower gamut than dye based ink. Gamut is the range of colors an ink set can print out. Pigment ink based printers will not produce as vibrant colors as dye ink based printers. Well, regardless how Epson marketing pitch is this is really the fact. The only...
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    best cartridges and 4x6 photo paper for canon pixma ip 5000

    "To those who question my printhead clogging with MIS ink, I am not the only one. Granddad will not use MIS because he has had the same problem." Have you tried Hobbicolors ink available on eBay? Hobbicolors ink sells at less than half the price of MIS ink. I have never had a single clogging...
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    Hobbicolors UW8 versus Canon OEM BCI-6 inks

    I have used Hobbicolors both WC6 and the newer UW8 inks on my ip8500. I have not needed profiles for my photo printings. The newer UW8 ink will make you no longer want to use OEM inks. It's not because of higher concentration of dyes. I believe it's due to its gamut being wider spread and...
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    Canon i550 printing very strange

    "The yellow worked great on the first nozzle test but the cyan was like hen's teeth." This looks like something familiar to me. Your Yellow printed nothing but Cyan was perfect. Then suddenly Yellow was perfect but Cyan went haywire. How about this one. Is any cartridge leaking? I am talking...
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    Ip4300 $59.99 at Fry's After $20 Rebate

    Just found out about it today. The last day of sale is tomorrow (Tuesday, 5/15). Well, Fry's has had many such sales already. But you never know when the next sale will be. So grab it before too late. Ip4300 is absolutely the best text printer at this price level in the market. It prints a full...
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    Life of Carts with print heads

    Aftermarket cartridges are massively produced at low cost. So it is reasonable to expect quality issues. But according to my experience if an aftermarket cartridge works at the time it is put to use the first time it usually will work for a very long time. If there is a quality issue, such a...
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    Prints coming out with too much magenta (ip4000)

    Colblip, you need to look at the printer's nozzle check print out for clues. If you save a nozzle check print out from the day when the printer was new and printed it the first time you will have a standard to compare to. You will be able to quickly see if there is a problem. You probably do not...
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    pixma ip4300 ink

    Mikling wrote: "Well I think everyone will agree that less of the total original ink from the last top up in the sponge will be consumed overall per refill. This will translate into greater problems or magnify the issues in the older BCI series. So topping up via the sponge is the way to go...
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    Best Canon Multifunction that has Unchipped Cartridges

    MP780 is long gone. You should consider a MP830 now. Although it is chipped its printing speed is far faster than MP780. Chipped cartridges are refillable just like unchipped ones.
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    What are the wells for in the top of the Canon cartridges?

    Most 3rd party refillable empty cartridges have no cover for the top of the cartridges. The wells and the grooves of the vent become useless. Although there are no immediate impact to the functionality to the cartridges it is true that ink in these cartridges will dry out faster than it should...
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    mp 510 print head burning

    How do you know your Cyan was burnt? Was it only stopped printing Cyan? It's not something you can actually see and say yeah it's burnt. How did you determine that it was burnt? I got a feeling that it was only clogged, not burnt.
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    Cli-6 used with cli-8 printers?

    The answer is no. CLI-8 has a chip on it. If you are able to plug in a BCI-6 (I doubt it) it will not work still. You don't need to keep buying CLI-8 cartridges. Why not refill them? A refill kit will last 6 months easily for you. You reuse your CLI-8 over and over again. It has been done by...
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    Canon i9900 Banding

    "The only problem is that if there is humidity present it could create some high resistance and false capacitance issues that could fool the printer into thinking it has a defective head. This disappears as soon as it dries further." This statement is false. Presence of water or humidity is...
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    Canon i9900 Banding

    "keeping the printhead out for a day to dry can present another problem. As the water dries, air enters the ink nozzle chambers and also through the ink inlet ports. If air is trapped in there when the cartridges are installed, they can be troublesome to remove at times" Mikling, air always get...
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