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I've not visited this forum for a while, and I'm surprised the color scheme has completely changed. For me, I see a lot of black text over less-black-background, for example, in the threads of conversations and the window I'm typing at this moment. I can't believe this is what everybody else...

I saw in YouTube a filling method called "dribble method." It's the simplest refilling method I've seen so far. The drawback is one refill takes 2 minutes, which is not too bad at all. I wonder anybody has tried it. My question is - if ink can be dribbled into the cartridge, will it...

The nozzle check of my MX860 shows a lot of broken grids for PGBK. I refilled the cartridge with dye black ink and it didn't improve much. So I soaked the print head in original windex for 24 hours, with additional water to replenish the evaporated solution. Now, what should I do? Should I...

I have an old and dry canon PGI-220bk cartridge that had pigmented ink. Now I want to refill it with dye ink. I was advised to purge this cartridge first. The information I dug up about purging is to flush slow running tap water into the cartridge. The trouble is that the hole I...

I made a mistake of buying cheap cartridges on ebay , and now my PGBK printhead is clogged with black dye ink. I do have a lot of black dye ink that can be used to refill BK tank. Is this the only thing I need in order to print black-and-white documents? I have a Canon MX860 color...

I posted about my problem with leaking ink earlier, and now I'm about to refill the ink tank again. It seems to me that the simplest method is using wax to seal the refill hole, given that my refill kit doesn't have a needle long enough for the German method and I had already drilled a hole...

I refilled the black ink tank in my Canon MX860 about three months ago. It's completely empty now. I actually haven't used this printer that much, and am scratching my head. After some online investigation, I think two possible causes that are stated below. I will appreciate people's...