Ladies and Gentlemen:
I have a rather perplexing problem with my trusty Canon i560 printer. First off, I love this thing and I am trying everything to make sure it works.
I've refilled original Canon BCI-6 cartridges multiple times with great success at photo printing. Eventually, the cyan began to fail. The rest of the colors printed fine. I thought I had a clogged printhead and cleaned and cleaned and cleaned and washed and soaked and cleaned... you get the picture. By the time I was done the printhead was like new. Well, the result of all that is that the printhead stopped printing altogether.
I took a brand new printhead and placed into my i560, mounted the ink tanks and did a bunch of print nozzle tests. All the colors came out beautifully except, of course, cyan.
Ok. Simple you think, right? I went out and bought a new original Canon BCI-6 cyan ink tank and placed into the new printhead. A few nozzle checks later and still no cyan. Now I'm frustrated.
I replace my OLD printhead (the one I washed and which appeared to stop working) and all the old ink tanks, including the refilled cyan. Surprise! All the colors look great (some streaking in magenta) and even the cyan is coming out of the OLD REFILLED ink tank?!?!? What the hell is going on here? The cyan is all streaked and looks bad, but at least its coming out, and all the other colors are coming out as well, even though they appeared to stop after I thoroughly washed the printhead. What's going on here?
I can't understand why the NEW printhead won't get the cyan going AT ALL, even with a NEW Canon ink tank, whereas the old printhead is hobbling along, and is actually doing ok with a REFILLED ink tank?
I'll appreciate any insight. I really love this old printer and don't want to dump it. Thanks in advance of any advice.
Alex
I have a rather perplexing problem with my trusty Canon i560 printer. First off, I love this thing and I am trying everything to make sure it works.
I've refilled original Canon BCI-6 cartridges multiple times with great success at photo printing. Eventually, the cyan began to fail. The rest of the colors printed fine. I thought I had a clogged printhead and cleaned and cleaned and cleaned and washed and soaked and cleaned... you get the picture. By the time I was done the printhead was like new. Well, the result of all that is that the printhead stopped printing altogether.
I took a brand new printhead and placed into my i560, mounted the ink tanks and did a bunch of print nozzle tests. All the colors came out beautifully except, of course, cyan.
Ok. Simple you think, right? I went out and bought a new original Canon BCI-6 cyan ink tank and placed into the new printhead. A few nozzle checks later and still no cyan. Now I'm frustrated.
I replace my OLD printhead (the one I washed and which appeared to stop working) and all the old ink tanks, including the refilled cyan. Surprise! All the colors look great (some streaking in magenta) and even the cyan is coming out of the OLD REFILLED ink tank?!?!? What the hell is going on here? The cyan is all streaked and looks bad, but at least its coming out, and all the other colors are coming out as well, even though they appeared to stop after I thoroughly washed the printhead. What's going on here?
I can't understand why the NEW printhead won't get the cyan going AT ALL, even with a NEW Canon ink tank, whereas the old printhead is hobbling along, and is actually doing ok with a REFILLED ink tank?
I'll appreciate any insight. I really love this old printer and don't want to dump it. Thanks in advance of any advice.
Alex