ludens
Getting Fingers Dirty
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- Dead Canon iX6510
Hi all,
has anybody found any way to stop this irritating and stupid endlessly repeated cleaning done by Canon printers?
My iX6510 is now four years old. In this time I have printed barely 1142 sheets with it. 29 were photos, most of them in postcard size. The rest was text, almost all of it black. But I have gone through 12 to 14 refills of each cartridge, and I'm sick and tired of that. It's not that I wouldn't want to print more, but since this stupid thing takes about an hour of my time every single time I want to print something, I end up using my 20 year old HP printer instead, despite the fact that it has a lower print quality and of course no color.
My iX6510 will repeatedly and extendedly clean every time I switch it on, even if there was no power interruption, and if I last printed just a day or two ago. It will also clean every time I switch it off, every time I start a print job, also a while after any print job finishes, and very often it will clean between pages of one job. It will very often clean and then clean again, without having printed anything nor having been switched off. It sucks dry all tanks roughly at the same rate, even if I print just black text, because at least 95% of the ink gets used in cleaning and not in printing.
More details: I'm using non-original tanks with autoreset chips, but I remember that the original tanks that came with the printer were empty very soon, because it would also clean all the time when using them. I don't remember with certainty whether or not the cleaning frequency increased when switching to non-original tanks. But I do remember for certain that it cleaned unreasonably often with the original tanks, and sucked them dry very fast.
Some threads say that autoreset chips register as a new ink tank every time the printer starts. This is obviously not correct, as the EEPROM in my printer registers between 7 and 12 tank changes per color, but 239 power cycles. It seems that the printer registers tank changes only when I actually change a tank (I have two sets), and not when I refill and reinstall the same tank, let alone on each power-up.
One time I disabled ink monitoring: When the original cyan tank was reported empty, after printing just black text... I had nothing at hand to refill or replace it at that time, because I never expected them to be drained so fast. Since then ink monitoring has always been on, but that one event of shutting it off for that one tank is recorded in the EEPROM. Does that mean that my printer will forever waste additional ink, because one time I switched off monitoring? Not that it wasted much less when new, though...
The printer is almost unuseable due to this problem. It takes an extreme amount of patience to get anything printed at all, with all that waiting while it throws away ink, and then refilling, then again watching how it throws away the new load.
Needless to say, buying original ink is totally out of the question, with this amount of wasting going on!
The print quality is fine, though... It's just a pity that with this problem it gets to print so little. Finally I ended up using it only when I absolutely need color, or large sheets. The old HP-520, which works fine without any cleaning at all, prints some 1000 sheets a year, and needs barely one refill every second year, of its single cartridge...
Out of frustration, I set up this web page, which contains some more details:
http//:ludens.cl/philo/dontbuycanonprinters.html
I'm very tempted to defeat the vacuum pump. That would save a lot of ink, and thus a lot of work and time refilling tanks. But of course it wouldn't save the time the printer wastes cleaning, and it would rule out ALL cleaning, even manually initiated. That doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
Any good advice is welcome. Except "buy original ink tanks and put up with the cost", which I don't consider good advice!
has anybody found any way to stop this irritating and stupid endlessly repeated cleaning done by Canon printers?
My iX6510 is now four years old. In this time I have printed barely 1142 sheets with it. 29 were photos, most of them in postcard size. The rest was text, almost all of it black. But I have gone through 12 to 14 refills of each cartridge, and I'm sick and tired of that. It's not that I wouldn't want to print more, but since this stupid thing takes about an hour of my time every single time I want to print something, I end up using my 20 year old HP printer instead, despite the fact that it has a lower print quality and of course no color.
My iX6510 will repeatedly and extendedly clean every time I switch it on, even if there was no power interruption, and if I last printed just a day or two ago. It will also clean every time I switch it off, every time I start a print job, also a while after any print job finishes, and very often it will clean between pages of one job. It will very often clean and then clean again, without having printed anything nor having been switched off. It sucks dry all tanks roughly at the same rate, even if I print just black text, because at least 95% of the ink gets used in cleaning and not in printing.
More details: I'm using non-original tanks with autoreset chips, but I remember that the original tanks that came with the printer were empty very soon, because it would also clean all the time when using them. I don't remember with certainty whether or not the cleaning frequency increased when switching to non-original tanks. But I do remember for certain that it cleaned unreasonably often with the original tanks, and sucked them dry very fast.
Some threads say that autoreset chips register as a new ink tank every time the printer starts. This is obviously not correct, as the EEPROM in my printer registers between 7 and 12 tank changes per color, but 239 power cycles. It seems that the printer registers tank changes only when I actually change a tank (I have two sets), and not when I refill and reinstall the same tank, let alone on each power-up.
One time I disabled ink monitoring: When the original cyan tank was reported empty, after printing just black text... I had nothing at hand to refill or replace it at that time, because I never expected them to be drained so fast. Since then ink monitoring has always been on, but that one event of shutting it off for that one tank is recorded in the EEPROM. Does that mean that my printer will forever waste additional ink, because one time I switched off monitoring? Not that it wasted much less when new, though...
The printer is almost unuseable due to this problem. It takes an extreme amount of patience to get anything printed at all, with all that waiting while it throws away ink, and then refilling, then again watching how it throws away the new load.
Needless to say, buying original ink is totally out of the question, with this amount of wasting going on!
The print quality is fine, though... It's just a pity that with this problem it gets to print so little. Finally I ended up using it only when I absolutely need color, or large sheets. The old HP-520, which works fine without any cleaning at all, prints some 1000 sheets a year, and needs barely one refill every second year, of its single cartridge...
Out of frustration, I set up this web page, which contains some more details:
http//:ludens.cl/philo/dontbuycanonprinters.html
I'm very tempted to defeat the vacuum pump. That would save a lot of ink, and thus a lot of work and time refilling tanks. But of course it wouldn't save the time the printer wastes cleaning, and it would rule out ALL cleaning, even manually initiated. That doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
Any good advice is welcome. Except "buy original ink tanks and put up with the cost", which I don't consider good advice!