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I just powered up my untested i960 recent purchase..... It has 4 orange blinks and a green. If I'm reading the manual right it means "purge sensor". Can I fix that, or if I have another scrap i960 can I fix it? I decided to put the head into my scrap i960. This resulted in the orange light...

Well, darn it, but thanks. I suppose there's nobody making replacement heads for them yet? (there weren't when I was looking for one for the i960 a few years ago). It;s a real shame, cos I'd buy decently priced heads to keep all my printers running - that's all they need, and it'd save tons and...

Hi, My Canon i860 halted printing in the middle of a page. The orange light blinked. A message was sent to the screen - some error with a 4 digit code. Unfortunately I thought the problem would just go away with a power on/off and didn't record it. FOLKS - ALWAYS RECORD ERRORS AND BLINKING LIGHT...

I just found a nice looking s900 to add to my collection of BCI 6 cart Canon printers. It printed on all, but on the yellow it doesn't quite get all the grid printed on the test print. I processed it today - the big clean - and discovered the prior owners had forgotten to remove the tape for...

I read (somewhere) that the i960 was the replacement for the s900. Both of these having the 6 cartridges. The i860 (which looks exactly like the i960) is a 5 cartridge printer with one of the 5 being a big pigment Black, and another of the 5 being the dye black (No photo cyan and magents).

It seems as though 5/8th or 1/2" tubing might work? http://www.nifty-stuff.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1310&p=1

I'd searched before posting the prior message, and have again, but haven't found the BCI-3eBK cleaning procedure. What is the latest method for purge cleaning the the big BCI-3eBK cart? Does anyone know the web link to the nifty-stuff procedure for this? In place of the 3/8th Vinyl tube...

The big BCI-3eBK cart - what is currently the best tubing/connectors/parts combination for cleaning/purging it out? I've seen the 3/8" vinyl tube for the BCI-6 carts. What's been found to be best for the bigger BCI-3 pigment ink carts? (Edit - or is this the cart type you don't bother trying to...

I needed to be printing, so took your advice and decided the quickest way to resolve it was buy a new one (I needed a spare anyway). It seems to be working, although had some banding at the start - I'll keep an eye on it. I'll be involved with cleaning out the carts and refilling soon - I've...

There's been a bit of banding on the black too, before this happened.

The printer was printing fine for a while, then I noticed horizontal streaks of white on my black prints. It got worse. I looked at the ink and it was empty - no warning - I think there must have been a bad seal at refill time. Anyway, I filled it. It printed a couple of good pages and now I'm...

I forgot to tell you the title only lasts for 24 hours.... then we're in the dark again learning from eachother. anyway, you really did save my bacon - I have to get some very important prints out this week. Thanks!

You are a true gem Mr. Embguy. Grease removed from timing strip. The old printer's chugging away again - true, not wobbly. I suppose I didn't know anything about that strip when I was hauling the sheet from the printer - got knuckles in grease and touched strip. It's probably good for anyone...

Did it myself. It just bends - I was sure it would crack and break, but it didn't. Just fit your hand in under it - bend - and hope for the best... Hope this helps you!

Is the timing strip that bit of see-thru plastic at the front - seems to go from one side of the printer to the other, behind the back of the printhead? Looks a bit like some slightly wider cassestte tape, but without the brown magmetic material on it. What can it be cleaned with - can I harm it...

I was wondering if anyone knows how to both remove and replace the Canon i960 / i860 QM2-0588-000 Paper support unit. AKA the titned plastic thing at the back that flips up to hold the sheets upright. Also, do you have to be careful -do they break easy Thanks

Cheers Embguy. I have a diagram of the i960 somewhere. Is it easy to get to the timing strip? I'll try at changing the print quality too, first, to see if that makes a difference. Thanks a lot!

When I print a portrait spreadsheet, instead of straight lines down the page, they snake down the page, curving slightly to the left and then the right and so on down the page, about an inch per occurrance. Are there any YouTube's showing the rollers etc for an i860 or i960, and what could go...

and I see old print of it printing perfectly - any ideas what's gone wrong. Has anyone been in to see all the rollers etc? BTW - this printer looks the same as an i960 - I think they're almost the same Thanks

Hi, I was told there was a paper jam on my Canon i860 and they tried to pull the paper out, but it would not budge. I looked at it and removed the sheet. It was angled at 45 degrees. Hard to pull out. It didn't feed in properly which is why it all went wrong. Anyway, The photo that printed...