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Problem is I hate windows. Sorry to all you windows fans but I just like the Mac OS. What I do not understand is if Epson in their print drivers have a no colour management option, why can't Canon.

Have a Canon Pro9000 and have considered Pro 1 but I'm on OSX and I'm fed up with the Canon print drivers not allowing you to turn off colour management. Want to print B&W, must be A3 and easy to refill, so am going back to Epson. Just checked the site I was looking at and under what's in box it...

Planning on buying this printer so googled UK prices. As always in life if the price is too good then either the company have none even though website says in stock or its a European model. However what I was not prepared for was when checking stock level told by a very helpful sales person that...

Hi Agree that the newer Canon printers do like to prune themselves. However the quality of output is excellent - photos. I have just swapped from Epson to Canon because I was fed up wasting ink trying to clear blocked nozzles, at least my two Canon printers work. I think the only real answer is...

ThePunisher Thanks for the info this is very good news. Just have to wait for a chip resetter.

Ok sounds good to me. So saturated sponge not a problem, which is good news because my sponges in my carts look pretty saturated and all seems to work just fine.

Yup understand that. In the video he does seem to really do for it ! I think if you used the vacuum created by pulling back on the syringe and then being a little more gentle, maybe with the cart the right way up, you could avoid getting ink into the air vent path. However the sponge will still...

Anyone use one of these www.rjettek.com/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/75/products_id/491 Now I use the german method with great success but this method my be difficult with Canon's new opaque carts. So saw this method of filling the cart through the exit port, no holes and with a measured...

I bet if you made a custom icc profile for each printer the results would be identical. However I would expect the printer with the grey ink would produce a more neutral print visible only in the grey areas. When I tested the output from my IP4700 vs PRO9000 when I first had them the results...

Looks like I will be buying bigger bottles of your ink in the future. I think the only reason the cheaper A3 printer will not be available on your side of the pond is that it would take sales away form the Pro9000. Here in the UK the Pro9000 is expensive at 350. Still sucks. Changing the...

See that Canon are about to launch a new A3 / 5 ink printer iX6550. Will this be the ultimate B&W printer using your excellent inks. Still printing with your B&W inks in my 4700, hope the same inks can be used in this new printer. Fingers crossed.:D

I have just had a look again at all the carts and apart from the PM the lower sponges look dark, saturated with ink. The PM cart's sponge looks much paler. At the moment its printing fine so I well wait and see, but good to know that if necessary it's no problem to leave the printer without the...

Hi all I may have a flow problem on a CLI-8 PM cart in my Pro9000. The sponge does not look that saturated, however gently blowing in the air vent will push ink out of the outlet. I refill using German method using OEM carts. If I refill the cart its OK for a time and then starts to give me...

Hi. I have tried PrintFab RIP and I do not think it is capable of what you want. It seems to me to be just a slightly better OEM driver. However if you want total control on the inks and I see you are using an Epson then QTR from Roy Harrington is the answer. Its a very good true RIP and very...

Good to know. I too am new to the German method but managed to fill similar carts with great success. In fact having used top fill for years I am now only going to use the German method because I think its easier and cleaner. I see you are using blunt needles. I used 19 gauge sharp needle and...

If you use PrintFab RIP you can print with just the photo black ink, black ink only, no need to change ink configuration at all. However as martin0reg says its a grainy look not truly photographic. If you are worried about cleaning the print head when swopping from colour to B&W then don't, just...

Yes for colour it is fast because it uses all of its nozzles. However if using greyscale mode then its extremely slow. As far as I know its because it tries to print with just the black ink with a small amount of colour, therefore only using a small number of its impressive nozzles. However that...

My Epson 2400 recently died and so today was donated to the dump with minor modifications via a sledge hammer !! I have replaced it with a Canon Pro9000 Mk2. I bought the 9000 for A3 colour knowing that with only one black ink the B&W has been reported as OK but not brilliant. However I could...

No. QTR is a RIP. Its an alternative print driver for controlling individual inks. I've used it with an Epson printer, now deceased, unfortunately not available for Canon printers.

nche11 With Miklings BW inks the only way of altering the tone warm/cold of a print is by using different papers. The base colour of the paper has a lot to do with it but I have found that papers of similar base whites create very different tones. If your using an Epson printer with advanced BW...