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Maybe this should be on the laser forum, but anyway, my wife wants a small color printer for occasional use on her desk. We already have a good laser monochrome printer in the office. The question is how to get her a color printer, which may be used only occasionally, thus ruling out ink jets...

Thanks so much to ghwellsjr and others for your advice and analysis of my printer. It's long out of warranty so I guess it really is junk now since any fix would cost more than it's worth. So I will probably save the two ink cartridges that still have ink for our other printers and take this...

Thanks again to everyone who commented. First a clarification: I did not immerse the ink cartridges in the water, I only used the previously mentioned bricks to hold them at about the level indicated in the previous picture from ghwellsjr. But also a question: I acknowledge the importance...

Thanks again, ghwellsjr, for your suggestions. I did the water method that you suggested for the three empty cartridges on my printer, PG-5BK (Pigment Black), CLI-8M (Magenta Dye), CLI-8C (Cyan Dye). The CLI-8M and CLI-8C behaved as you said - the water turned the sponge white and then the dye...

Thank you so much, George H. Wells, Jr., for your analysis of my situation and suggestions about it. I really appreciate you taking the time to do so. I see now that part of the information that I have reported so far appears to me to be self-contradictory. George said: In your first...

I am quite surprised that it is so confusing to find a supplier of inkjet refill inks. I began with the list in FAQ section at: http://www.nifty-stuff.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=316 Here is the result of my research so far: Image Specialists - http://www.image-specialists.com/ This...

Thanks to both ghwellsjr and embguy for your continued advice. I didnt know what a purge system was and I found the explanation below in one of your other posts. I repeat it here for the benefit of anyone else reading this: The purge system is used to suck ink out of the cartridges through...

Thank you, ghwells, for your response. I did in fact find two small ink pads on the right hand side, almost completely obscured by the plastic housing of the printer. I managed to use two pieces of plastic tubing to get some Windex on the pads. It was difficult to tell how much actually got...

2009 11 13 My wife and I went on a two week vacation and when we came back the magenta inkjet on her not-too-old Canon MP610 at work had clogged. I removed the printhead and tried to unclog it with alcohol but that didnt work (its the first time I have tried to do this). Since the black...