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Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Devices and Printers right click your printer and choose Printing preferences
Do you see a "Always print with current settings" option?
Actually I don't care about flooding the vent with ink. There are 2 "collectors" between the cartridge and exterior, so any trapped ink will be caught by these. In the case of pigment black there is a chance that the vent will be clogged from dried up ink, but that would take so many refills...
I am 99,99% sure all the new OEM 520/521s have the ink chamber full...
I watched your video and if you pull on the syringe before taking it off (with the vent hole sealed) you only introduce more air to the lower sponge, you don't clear the vent. You should pull a little on the syringe and take...
L800 uses dye inks, so we know it's not Durabrite, or Ultrachrome, or K3, or any other "cheap pigment ink"... And it's not Claria, it's just another Epson dye ink. Is there a dye ink that is water resistant on plain paper? Also see this regarding compatible Durabrite inks (pigment!)...
If Canon made it's ink for cli-221 3x more fade resistant than the ink for the cli-8... this doesn't mean that the cli-221 compatible ink is 3x more fade resistant than the compatible ink for the cli-8.
You can go to IS's webpage and compare the cli-8 inks (chroma100 for OEM) to the cli-221...
@Paul Verizzo : Only Canon makes Chromalife 100+ inks. All the other inks are compatible, they don't necessarily have the properties advertised by Canon. Just look at the compatible inks for cli-8, 521, 526, 551 and see how they use one ink in 2-3 generations.
Thank you, @Paul Verizzo ! I got a good laugh reading that "article". It isn't signed, has no beginning, no end, no context, no nothing. At least it's impartial... :)
Inks for Epson (OEM or 3rd party) are not made to be boiled. You can (and probably will) ruin a Canon printhead if you use Epson dye ink in it. If you use Epson pigment ink in a Canon dye printhead...o_O