iP4300 Two-tone nozzle test

[Sherden]

I am about to buy two more printers, a 610 (broken, for spare parta) and a 800 (working condition)...

Please stop me and burn my credit card

 

[palombian]

What spare parts do you think to recover from a broken printer ?

I took a broken printer (for free) on 2 occasions:

- a MX885 in good condition but clogged head: exchanged the head with a 100% good one from a MG5250 (a lesser model, now continuing it's life without photo black)
- last week a MP550 with B200 error but nearly full OEM cartridges (switched the 520/521 chips to 525/526)

 

[Sherden]

The MP610 to recover the scaning part. I bought some months ago an used 610 in working condition who arrived at home with the scanner glass broken. I am considering to transplant the scanning part from the broken one to the working 610.

The MP800 is in working conditon, so no parts to recover, just to use it. I want to stick with CLI8 and PGI-5 carts that are easier to refill

 

[martin0reg]

...I purchased a printhead in original packaging for $60...

Was the "original packaging" from china? Then it was probably an "original copy of packaging"
I think this type is out of production, so the honest seller would offer "refurbished". Really "new old stock" models are rare and mostly overpriced.
I would return it to the sender and tell him the printhead is damaged and damages printers.