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I think I will ebay it, not sure yet, the unit is good bar the head I would say. I will have a think about it, postage to the US might be a bit expensive, will check, I guess the head does not weigh much. Cheers J

Epilogue --> The heads dead Zed. Was printing fine, then yellow and magenta disappeared, did a clean, no joy, did a deep clean and ink all over the place, the yellow cart sucked up ink from the black??? To use an Aussie expression WOFTAM! New printer on the way. Thanks for the help. Z

The red hue appears to be coming from blocked cyan print nozzles. Working on getting it clean, no luck yet.

I foolishly (as it turns out) did an auto head alignment ---> now its all gone west, I'm missing chunks of the test pattern, the manual alignment pattern will not print and photos have a random mess of stripes through the image --> mainly red or blue. I am cleaning the head again in the hope...

Yes I can/will... later, flat out today with family stuff! Thks. :)

OK.... {sigh} now I'm getting a red cast, no where near as bad as the yellow one was but its still noticeable. I think if I choose the right colour space it will probably go, the ones I have tried so far just made it all yellow again, letting windoze make the choice so far has been the best...

A scan of a print using the Inktec inks.... http://www.thejillian.com.au/download/car.jpg :D Now its just slightly too red, but that is being picky I would say its certainly correctable using colour spaces or manually tweaking. Crap ink, basically, that seems to have been it, I should have...

Arrrghhhhh... this is --> "doin my head in" LOL. OK, I get the new Inktec carts, put the BCI-6BK in and print the black to white fade --> its yellow! So I make a new image with C M Y K fades to white and two other black to white fades. Print that... all of the black to white fades are more or...

Surely if the ink I have is too viscous that would have some impact on the amount getting through the head?

Yeah --> I worked that one out, a little late but I did get there :D

So how might you explain that it does make a difference? The test was quite simple... 1. Print the image (std quality on plain paper) ---> noticeable yellowing. 2. Swap out the BCI-6BK with the windex cart. 3. Deep clean. 4. Print the same image (std quality on plain paper) ---> no...

BTW ---> Don't forget that the second image is simply missing ink that the printer actually thinks is being laid down, that would account for the rougher look.

They are both plain paper tests on standard quality.... you get tired of wasting material after a while ! As it turns out there is an Inktec retailer not far away, considering the cost of the Canon carts here (BCI-6BK = $27) I think I will buy a full set of Inktec carts ($30!!!). Then I can test...

Oh yeah and should my BCI-6BK ink bottle be labelled "Photo Black" ? I don't get the "photo" reference and what it really means.

Guys.... what do we think of InkTec brand carts?

Yes... No cast is present. The image goes from black to white, where the 80% mark is I don't know.... The only difference is that the BCI-6BK cart has been swapped for one full of windex. I suspect that this means the colour inks that I have are also the reason my colour is light. After...

Nope... just suggesting that there is something wrong with my so called "photo black" and I think I just went a long way to proving it. I have a set of cleaned carts that are full of Windex that I use for cleaning (yikes I hear the crowd scream!) hey it works :) I pulled the photo black and put...

Could this be the result of being supplied a pigmented ink as photo black which I understand should be a dye ink? Would a pigmented black ink print this way? Would it damage the print head or could I clean it and replace the ink with the correct type?

I just did a test. I opened photoshop and created a grayscale gradient from black to white. There is no colour information in the image at all, yet when I print it the mid tones have a yellow hue. I am suspecting that one of my black inks is crappy (yet another tech term!). How can I tell what...

You are right, the printer initiated tests should not be impacted and have not been impacted by the new drivers. The results from the printer initiated tests are basically the same, the black type is good but the colour seems light. Having nothing to reference that against I don't know if that...