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I've been running the Linux variant of this for months now. It works wonderfully. Definitely think this will extend the longevity of my print head, it's my fourth one! :he The third one lasted like 9 months! :he:he I love back in the day that parallel ports used the exact same pin-count form...

Sorry for the late reply, but since this thread is been ongong for like 4 years (:D): I've been flushing the cartridges with OctoInk's flush clips using distilled water, and letting them dry completely. They seem to soak up the ink perfectly fine the next time I fill. Why is it bad to let...

What are the symptoms of cartridge starvation on the nozzle check?

Even with a much older printer, the MP610 the gutenprint driver and overall functionality is very limited. I mainly limit it to plain paper prints, and even then it still works better in Windows, especially with dealing with duplex color printing and the Linux color matching is not quite...

Where do you guys find the waste pads? I've yet to find any for sale for my MP610...

I managed to fire off the nozzle check manually in Linux through the command line. To do that, I just had to run: lpr -o raw 00004.SPL -P Canon-PIXMA-MP610 "Canon-PIXMA-MP610" is what I named my printer as in CUPS. The MP610 I own is also connected to a cheap Trendnet 3-port print server so it...

So the scan came out a bit weird. The lighter 2 magenta boxes do print out, some small faint broken lines, but it's there. It's weird that my HP Laserjet MFP didn't pick it up. However, I can say for sure that just about NOTHING cyan printed. The cyan cartridge is nearly full, so it's not...

I think the printhead might be shot at this point... I suspect my issue with the magenta clog originally started because I don't print often enough or consistently often enough. I found the post about automating the nozzle check in Windows by capturing the spool file. The subsequent bat file he...

I soaked the printhead against a dry paper towel and filling the nozzles with distilled water for 4 days on and off, checking the output and swapping with new dry paper towels. The cyan definitely leeched a lot more than any other color. Yet, even now barely any color with the cyan. So way...

It was a tiny portion of the magenta, I'm talking single "lines" in the print nozzle check. However after repeated printhead cleanings the cyan seems to be clogged really bad. I'm trying the papertowel soak where you soak a paper towel and place the head on top and then fill the top ink nozzle...

I have an IP4500/MP610 (ok technically I have both, but they have interchangeable printheads and am using the 610). The magenta has a stubborn clog. It's not horrible throughout, but it has a concentration of blank lines largely going left to right on the nozzle check page. It's enough that...

Where can you buy replacement absorbers?

I cleaned out the printhead. I noticed there was a lot of black ink on the bottom of the print head, near the nozzles (not sure if pigment or dye, looked like dye). I think this happened because I was printing overly color heavy brochures on duplex, to the point it wrinkled the paper. Seems...

How do I go about cleaning this up? My guess is the photo black, as now I think of it, I do recall seeing odd black ink deposits where they should not be.

I've noticed that if I let my MP610 sit for say a week, the magenta on the nozzle check gets severely discolored. Then it requires a cleaning (at least one, sometimes 2) to get the color normal again. Also notice during the first few cleanings, and definite discoloring of the magenta on the...

I know mikling sells prefilled spongeless cartridges that were deep vacuum filled. You might be able to avoid the air and clogging by using those.

Doesn't it get REALLY hot in AZ, especially with stuff in the garage? It definitely does in the midwest! Alternatively, can I flush out the printhead and leave it without ink? I got instructions on how to do that from mikling after buying a refill kit from him.

Yeah, but we can't print checks on any Inkjet printer on the market:lol: The retrofitting jacks the price up by about 2.5x. A fully decked out one, the smallest we have without the modification is about $1200USD. So I still think it beats inkjet for longevity. I don't know of any other...

This is where I appreciate the longevity of HP LaserJets. At my workplace, I routinely come across units that have more than 500k pages printed. I wish Inkjet printers lasted that long. Of course, the HP LaserJet printers we have complete with their MICR check printing conversions cost...

Considering the IP4500 printer model itself is several years old and long since discontinued, it seems quite hard to buy a new one at a reasonable price. Can a used IP4500 be trusted, especially if I intend to store it unused as a spare? If so, what should I do before I put it in storage? I'm...