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Printer Master
- Joined
- Feb 4, 2014
- Messages
- 1,872
- Reaction score
- 2,248
- Points
- 297
- Location
- Belgium
- Printer Model
- PRO10,PRO9500II,MB5150,MG8250
I bought a new in the box MB5350 in an outlet store.
Firmware was 2.030.
To avoid firmware updates I checked out "return of information to Canon" and "information about new firmware" during setup.
Connected with a wired LAN, no cloud services installed (but I can print from my smartphone).
Installed the Canon setup cartridges.
Nozzle check was perfect the first time.
The printer behaves as all other Canon printers, it is fast, the standard print quality is very good.
In silent mode - otherwise it is too loud in a normal room - the speed is still much better than an average consumer printer.
One pass duplex scanning is a big advantage.
Registering of the papers is a nuisance for a single user (and why can't you print a nozzle check from cassette 2 where your A4 paper is ).
Very nice printer after all.
After 3 days the refillable cartridges with autoreset chips and ink from octopus-office.de arrived.
Filled them with ink.
Sealed the ink outlets of the OEM carts with alu tape (after priming the head and about 100 pages printed 10g of black and 5g of every color was used).
Removing the carts before they are empty is much easier than all the video's suggest: pull the plug when printing, slide the printhead cart by cart to the inlet groove and lift a small plastic lever (really don't understand why you should turn a plastic wheel inside or use screwdrivers, removing black plate etc).
Powered the printer and loaded the refillable carts one by one following the printer menu.
After a rather long cleaning cycle the nozzle check showed a few lines missing in the BK.
A second cleaning solved this (as with many Canon printers, you can clean the BK and colors separatily from the PC, not from the printer panel).
Colors at first sight are very close to the OEM, a photo on glossy paper is nearly the same, no gloss differences or bronzing, only a tad less yellow.
To be continued ...
Firmware was 2.030.
To avoid firmware updates I checked out "return of information to Canon" and "information about new firmware" during setup.
Connected with a wired LAN, no cloud services installed (but I can print from my smartphone).
Installed the Canon setup cartridges.
Nozzle check was perfect the first time.
The printer behaves as all other Canon printers, it is fast, the standard print quality is very good.
In silent mode - otherwise it is too loud in a normal room - the speed is still much better than an average consumer printer.
One pass duplex scanning is a big advantage.
Registering of the papers is a nuisance for a single user (and why can't you print a nozzle check from cassette 2 where your A4 paper is ).
Very nice printer after all.
After 3 days the refillable cartridges with autoreset chips and ink from octopus-office.de arrived.
Filled them with ink.
Sealed the ink outlets of the OEM carts with alu tape (after priming the head and about 100 pages printed 10g of black and 5g of every color was used).
Removing the carts before they are empty is much easier than all the video's suggest: pull the plug when printing, slide the printhead cart by cart to the inlet groove and lift a small plastic lever (really don't understand why you should turn a plastic wheel inside or use screwdrivers, removing black plate etc).
Powered the printer and loaded the refillable carts one by one following the printer menu.
After a rather long cleaning cycle the nozzle check showed a few lines missing in the BK.
A second cleaning solved this (as with many Canon printers, you can clean the BK and colors separatily from the PC, not from the printer panel).
Colors at first sight are very close to the OEM, a photo on glossy paper is nearly the same, no gloss differences or bronzing, only a tad less yellow.
To be continued ...
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