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What does it mean for absorber pads to be clogged ? Do they become saturated with ink before the waste ink counter says so ? Can they still be washed ?

I have never tried window cleaner, but I had success with cheap deionized water, heated to 40C (you must not feel any discomfort when dipping your finger). I partially immerse the printhead until the water gets cold. I repeat with new heated water, until the water stays clear. If after such...

As long as you print something regularly, even if it is pure black, the printer automatically performs enough cleaning to keep all the nozzles in good condition. That said, it is a good habit to print a nozzle check every week.

I have been using TurboPrint (under Linux) for nearly a year. Strictly speaking, the Canon driver (under Windows) is also a RIP, albeit less flexible. Neither of them are as featured as a professionnal RIP, but TurboPrint offers much more control than the Canon driver. I am mostly using it to...

Even when using the same formulation, it is very difficult to make the same ink twice. There is always a slight difference in color, hopefully not noticeable. When the formulation is different, an exact same color is even less likely to happen, and the difference should be discernable. So the...

See also: http://www.nifty-stuff.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4017

Thank you pharmacist, these are good news. We knew it had to happen. :)

The ink levels are not the most important. The printhead is. As soon as a Canon printer does not come with a separate sealed printhead, it cannot be sold as new. In your case, the seller might have installed his old printhead instead of the new one, or resetted the EEPROM at some point...

I do not know if it can help, but InkTec bulk inks are listed is this document: http://www.inktec.com/english/pdf/crossreference/OA_Bulk.pdf

Be careful here, you have not spoken to InkTec (the famous Korean ink manufacturer) but to ProPrint (a British retailer which sells some InkTec products among other brands). Do not be confused by the way ProPrint market their domain names (proprint.co.uk, inkjet-direct.com, inktec-uk.com). For...

There are already many threads in this forum (and elsewhere) about the way Pixma printers are using their pigment black and dye black inks. I read many of them, including ghwellsjr's conclusive thread: The Truth about Canon Pigment vs Dye Black. It is not surprising that the topic has been so...

We do not know if a resetter for Canon PGI-x20/CLI-x21 is technologically possible, but since compatible chipped carts are available, at least compatible auto-reset chips (ARC) are likely to happen.

I have always stored my ink bottles in the fridge (next to my polymer clay). :) This is mainly because my fridge is never full, otherwise I would not bother.