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check your timing strip that runs through behind the printhead. it may be dirty

do a manual printhead alignment through the maintenance section as i believe your horizontal head alignment is out. usually the last few adjustments on the head alignment pages that get printed out. its a setting that when printing tell the printer how to line up each pass of the printhead over...

printing cd's will use the colours and number 8 black to make a black as the pigment number 5 will not work on cd printing too

it will be fine. vacuum packing was just the way that supplier packs them and not necessary to the life of the cartridge. just make sure you store the cartridge out of daylight, like in a drawer, and make sure the green bar in the cartridge doesnt get damaged. the silica gel may of been in...

who says that they haven't adjusted the formula over time to make it up to a quality of today ink with todays technology put into it so it works with the new carts. maybe they changed the formula to work with a 521/526 or 221/226. then found the new formula works well in the old 3/6/8...

any cartridges that show sediment get thrown in the bin as we have tried all sorts of stuff to get rid of the sediment incl flushing but to no avail. any that have stayed clear we have kept refilling. sometimes they will refill 2-3 times and on the 4th fill will show sediment. some sediment on...

not flushed any cartridges till we started getting the problem. we have been doing them for 6+ months and only the last month or so had sediment in some cartridges but not all, using the same ink in all from same 5 litre container. some have sediment within an hour of being filled and some...

we are getting similar with OCP yellow ink for the 521 and 525 cartridges. yellow floaty bits appearing in the tank part of the cartridge. ive removed the crystalised ink from the cartridges and tried adding iso-propyl alcohol, a drop of ammonia, flash cleaning liquid and other things to try...

Switch off power at wall. hold power button down on printer switch on at wall printer power light will light up let go of power button on printer light will go out press printer power button and it will boot up as normal. every time you switch it off at the wall you will need to repeat the...

im not promoting them, someone asked what forum that i mentioned not being happy with so i told them. i wasnt promoting them or bashing them, just saying i wasnt happy to pay the fees is freedom of speech. i have put a useful post on here and im not here just to give a thumbs up on every thread

Hi We are a retail shop with 2 shop outlets, refilling 90% of ink cartridges on the market, and a warehouse refilling laser cartridges to supply the shops and online orders, with total of 5 staff. I found this trick myself for how to show full ink levels for the IP1300 to IP2600 printer when...

I am also on 'imagerzone' but think ill be here a bit more often as it seems a bit more busy. We are a retail shop with 2 shop outlets, refilling 90% of ink cartridges on the market, and a warehouse refilling laser cartridges to supply the shops and online orders, with total of 5 staff.

stratman - that was just the conclusion we came to, i havn't read about people blocking the optical sensor as not been on here that often but blocking the optical is interesting. i used to be a member of a n other refill forum but since they started blanking out company names and charging people...

in the tank part of the cli-8 type cartridge at the botttom you'll see a triangle like bit of plastic on the inside. looking at it from the bottom of the cartridge it has like 2 little mirrors in it. a light shines into that bit and can work out from the colour reflected from the mirrors whether...