Deep cleaning Question + 3rd party ink question.

chobo2

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Hi

I have a question about deep cleaning. When you do a deep cleaning does it use your ink up alot quicker then usual? Like how much ink do you lose during this process.

I have a canon i560 that is dieing. I started to notice this when I started refilling my own inks(So not sure if the inks caused this or if it was just poor timing). I had my printer problaby for 3-5 years and all of a sudden the magenta started to cross contaminate with the yellow. So I thought I had a leak in the cartridge so to rule this out I bought some ink from these guys http://www.123inkcartridges.ca/.

These ink seem to be pretty standard on the net(almost every company sells the same looking ones). Anyways its been a month and I maybe printed 20-30 pages that used color. Maybe 10 of them full pages of color and now my magenta is almost out. I can't believe that in a month it's almost used up. The cyan is almost used up too(about 1/3 left). I checked the yellow(what is still gunuine cart from canon) and it still is about 1/3 full still plus it was about 1/4 used up when I put these other 2 carts in.

So I don't know if it was just because of the deep cleaning(but then why is yellow still go so much in it). Or because the stuff I used had more of these colors then yellow(but still I did not do ton's of printing) or for some reason these just get used so much faster.

I like these carts because they don't need to be filled up. I am not too crazy about filling them up yourself since its just a pain but if they run out after a month there not worth it either.

So was it because of this deep cleaning stuff or just this ink get used quicker?
 

Simon R.

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The cleaning usually is very ink consuming process, but you have to be aware that some compatible (remanufactured) ink tanks / inkjet cartridges contain much less ink than the OEM ones.
 
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