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Ok my Artisan 50 died on me. For some reason the yellow just stopped sucking ink in. Even after multiple cleaning cycles. Since my print needs have slowed down some I thought I'd simplify and get a Workforce 30. Well obviously I did install the CISS. One thing though to get a proper prime is...

Well I decided I wanted to buy a dedicated compact photo printer. It seems the only easily refillable ones are the Canon IP100 and the HP Photosmart compact photo printers, the a626 in particular. The Canon is just too pricey, the HP I took a look at the newer a626 and a 5ml cartridge is just a...

Wow I was so surpised by this video. I'm surprised he just couldn't find as much work. He's a lot better than most of the voices I here on the radio. It's sad how badly commercial radio would treat someone just fire them and not help if they fall on hard times and get into drinking and drugs...

You know one thing I've noticed since switching from Canon to Epson is that the piezo print head seems to run cleaner. By cleaner I mean it doesn't seem to deposit ink around the inside of the printer. I think the "boiling" that the thermal print heads produces an ink vapor. This most noticeably...

It's funny how useful and grin inducing having a nearly unlimited supply of cheap ink is. One of my friends needed lots of different colors of construction paper to make some paper projects. And her jaws just dropped when I said don't bother buying any I'll just print what you need, I have some...

I just finished printing a really large run of 250 4x6 pictures for a friend. Boy does it take a really long time when doing 250 prints at the photo rpm (max dpi) setting. I did notice that you get just about 60 4x6 prints before one of the cartridges runs out. This time light magenta was the...

It's been pretty rainy here in Southern California. And I noticed something in my CISS now. It has the constant pressure system so it is basically a sealed system. Now normally fluctuations in air pressure cause a little rise and fall in the ink level up the vent tube. Well I see when the bottle...

As it goes with Canon they keep trying to circumvent refilling as if their lives depended on it. It's the same to a much lesser extent to Epson. But HP seems to be a little friendlier to refill, at least for their tri-color and black printers. Does anyone else here think HP may have gotten the...

I got some free paper from my friend. Rather glossy and thick, says just "Epson Photo Paper" on the back. Not quite as glossy as Kirkland and .05 mm thinner but I find out of all my other brands this one is the most off when it comes to color. It is quite noticeably warmer, much more so than the...

I just got some in. Some things I notice, it is just an almost imperceptible hint less glossy and also slightly less pearlescent. As for how it prints, after printing using the old and new profiles on the old paper it seems the new paper requires slightly less ink to produce the same colors...

Ok after not printing for a couple weeks I got a stubborn clog on my Epson Artisan 50 with CISS. After 2 cleanings it had the same nozzles clogged on the cyan channel. It was annoying but I devised an easy way to quickly clean the print heads. I had an extra CISS lying around that I didn't like...

Ok after having printed a bunch of photos I've noticed the printer primarily uses light magenta then light cyan. It uses yellow a little and black less but what's really strange is that cyan and magenta full strength is hardly used at all. When the light colors are depleted the full strength...

Well it's officially here, the Canon IP 4820 printer, slightly faster printing speeds and bluetooth compatible. Everything's gotta have bluetooth now, my toaster has blutooth :P Downside is this uses a newer CLI-226 carts. Any guess as to ink capacity or anti-refill tech on these?

Ok I finally ran out of my stratitec refill ink. Bought a new printhead for my ip4600 because I was starting to get some minor striping on my cyan heads, possibly due to ink kogation but it was time since I went through quite a bit of ink. So after profiling the ink and kirkland paper on on my...

Alright guys I'm normall a Windows user and avoid the trendy Apple stuff because as much as Windows has been called a monopoly, Apple is just as bad but on a smaller niche scale, but that's another topic entirely. So when it came time to refill a printer at work that is only connected to an...

Both pictures were printed on kirkland glossy photo paper. The top is the glossy photo paper setting the bottom is the matte photo paper setting other than a difference in color it seems the same at first glance but something caught my eye and ear little bit later. I reprinted them and noticed...

I noticed some smudges on the plastic sensor strip on my printer so I decided to wipe it clean with some alcohol. Wow it seems after a year or so of tons of photo printing quite a bit of ink mist has settled onto that strip that it turned the cleaning pad I used to gently wipe it magenta. I...

Ok I was printing a test pic and was going to print a profile reference next so I turned off profiling for the next picture. Strangely enough If you're printing a picture and switch off the profiling it will actually switch off the profiling while you're printing. Here's a scan of it, the left...

I just noticed this on my ip4600. I tried When manually setting the print head alignment and used photo paper, well it turns out you'd get horizontal banding. So I adjusted for it and subsequent plain printouts get dark banding due to the paper not advancing far enough and photo prints come out...

Well I got me a new canon lide 200 scanner, it's pretty good and I just got my MIS ink. Can't wait to profile it with all my different papers. But one thing strikes me as funny. I got a refrigerator magnet and it is printed pretty poorly, something I wouldn't expect from a highly regarded ink...