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Hi, I bought a used canon Pixma ip4200. It came with a boatload of generic carts (white box, no brand name). The carts are horrible. Usually I can only get a couple of prints before a cart clogs and I even had a chip fail. I replaced one really troublesome cart with a OEM cart and all...

Hi all, I had an old Pixma printer that's been sitting in my garage for a year waiting for electronic disposal pickup. It had some debris on it so I turned it upside down to shake it off - big mistake! Loads of ink came out of it. Now I know where all the ink from the cleaning cycles goes. Had...

I popped the top off of my Pixma ip6210 carts - that's an odd duck printer in that it has dual, 3 color carts and I think the actual ink metering is built into the cart. With those carts, the sponge occupies the entire ink well. I had just refilled and I saw little to no standing ink when I...

I bought a high end, used monotone Laser some time ago and had to replace the fuser shortly afterward. Cost me $300. I understand it's considered a maintenence item.

I just picked up a ip4200 for $50 - this printer appears to be far superior to the newer low cost printers. I need to read the manual but it appears to even have a standby mode where it will turn itself on when you print to it. I know it's nothing new, the HP laserjets have had this feature...

In my experience and other's here any cartridge not specifically made to be refilled will eventually fail. I have gotten from 3-6 times or so. The quality of inks may have something to do with it but also remember that the manuafcturer has no reason to design the cartridge to last that long. I...

I just went through this and if ink costs are important to you I would select by the cartridge and then the printer. See the 2 posts below with similar titles. IMO Canon makes the best low cost ink jets hands down. However, the latest printers/carts from canon(225, 226) will not allow...

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I buy the kits from Atlantic Inks.

Hi, I have a ip6210 with the crazy 3 color $35 cartridges and I can refill between 3-6 times or so. When a color finally fails after refill I still get some partial output. Sometimes several deep cleanings will cure it but that's rare. I'm thinking the sponge starts to disintegrate and/or the...

Hi all, I have a ip6210. This printer has the dual, triple color, $35 cartridges which make it absurdly expensive to operate but I got around that to some extent by refilling. Problem is the refilling will only work 3 - 5 times or so. Both cartridges have had it so I think it's time to get a...