New weapon of Canon: new carts to replace CLI-221/521 and PGI-220/520

[stratman]

The problem will be in changing the design enough to copy it. I mean, reverse engineering is easy, but how many ways can you improve on a wood toothpick?

Best post of the day!

 

[websnail]

Indeed.. LOL..

 

[irvweiner]

Strathman: Is this where we are at now? Trademarking on the forum? No! I offer you 'greedstick' Publick domain TM free!
Several pages earlier into this post I made some responses to the refill problems. One of which was quite satirical is repeated here.

07/15/2010 3:37:43 am

irvweiner
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Re: Canon PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II ink

Due to the difficult economic/employment situation in the US and my 314.159 days of unemployment, the last 42 of which were absent of any cash receipts from the state I have had to radically alter my printing techniques and cartridge refilling protocols. Fortunately, it is summer and my family's diet has been limited to the fruits & vegetables grown by the local farms or being disposed of by the large supermarkets.

To maintain my passion for creating fine art prints and to keep my sanity and spirits elevated I now prepare my own inks. I use the fine dark New England beets that cannot be recooked one more time to produce my magenta ink stock, this diluted with some Chablis gives me an excellent photo magenta. Leftover, and overcooked spinach firmly pressed and filtered produces a glorious green, perfect for my landscape panos. Next, I employ the inedible but tasty lemon rinds to prepare my prime yellow. Lavender and several other flowers being trashed by the local florist I carefully grind by hand and create a cool cyan. Again, a light dilution with some soured Chablis gives me the needed photo cyan. Finally, the collected soot from our candles (saving electric power) mixed with a little anti-freeze yields my basic black. Well, this completes my RGB-CYM-Bk inkset. Available in a dye or pigment matched ink set.

Performance is beyond my wildest dreams, bucolic landscapes have never looked so realistic. My people portraits glow with the full blush of life in the skintones. At our last photo club exhibit, members were awestruck with my prints and demanded to know what inks I used and how did I profile them. Best of all they wanted to purchase my inks with cold hard cash (or soft paper). This has been extremely successful for me and my family. I am now in a position to offer to you these same magnificent inks at moderate cost.

Please request a copy of our price list, do hurry, because summer is fading away.

Thank you Irv Weiner

#3 07/15/2010 7:29:00 am

websnail
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Re: Canon PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II ink

I am currently trying VERY hard not to die laughing...

Irv... I'd love a copy if you can spare the paper...

big_smile
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#4 07/15/2010 7:24:57 pm

irvweiner
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Re: Canon PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II ink

Websnail: I'm very sorry but I am no longer making my own paper. The discarded cotton&linen fabrics previously processed for this purpose are now used to prepare our 'tacos' and pita bread sandwiches.

Be patient the major US finance bill was just passed this afternoon, I'm expecting a large shipment of surplus used bond paper from Washington, DC which will carefully be bleached using the collected tears of the >15M US unemployed. This recycled paper bonanza will be sold back to Wash. DC to recycle food, jobs and above all, hope to its citizens in this desperate financial state.

irv weiner

#5 07/15/2010 7:33:04 pm

msmart
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From: Arizona, USA
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Re: Canon PIXMA Pro9000 Mark II ink

Irv, expand that into a novel and you'll have publishers beating down your door to publish it. I'll be the first in line to buy the $1.99 paperback version with your surplus bond paper no less!!

Seriously, you have a gift of writing, my friend.
Canon iP4500 x3, IS ink from Precision Colors
Hi, my name is msmart and I'm a "top filler" using OctoInkjet's SquEasyFill bottles.

Now, to serious business, we hobbyists are being taken. Epson has just taken it's 'ink case' back to the EU for the Nth time. In the US, the principal Western ink-cart mfgrs has 'litigantly' threatened the many Mom&Pop business.

The cart mfgrs may with their 'black' carts hide the the ink and it's levels but thanks to Newton and Einstein, gravity is on our side. I have previously suggested a plastic dip stick (with a beveled edge) permanently mounted in the car tto visibly demo when the ink level is critically low, similar to what used with car batteries. In a simple spring-ruler scale mounted on a wood rod, I illustrated a primitive reference scale that would permit us to hang the cart until it's top/bottom aligned with a ref mark indicating it was filled.
Feedback was cute and humorous but I have not actually heard from anyone and employing any of these approaches on a full time basis.

However my suggestions for refrigerating bulk ink and microwave same when needed (in small squeeze bottles ) really brought out the chuckles but no scientific data or reprimands from individuals much less from ink mfgrs.The 'best 'info' we got for our pig inks was to remove the carts and shake them up to prevent clotting. For the moderate size Epsons there is no need to frequently remove the carts, stress their seals when removing/replacing. Apotheker properly recommended lifting the front of the printer several times and agitate the pig ink. I found it easier to slide and old leather belt under the print and do the same.

Photographic professionals who bill for their time and materials are invariably going to stay with the OEM or Jon Cohn fine art inks, they cannot afford loss face if one of their prints 'fail'-regardless of the ink source. But for most semipros, or hobbyists the latitude is greater.

I feel for our 'financial' survival as hobbysts or semi-pros it will be necessary to support the few quality players in the game.
Leo Chang at inkjetlfly, Ross Hardie at inkjetcasts, InkjetRepublic, milikind at Color Precision (Image Specialsits). And most possibly get these 'guys' to produce some reliable compatible common carts.

irv weiner

 

[websnail]

Just in case the irony was missed.. My earlier (TM) was in jest.

I may be earning the necessary to pay the bills through Octoink but that doesn't mean I've sold my soul to do it...

 

[stratman]

Irv:

You can once again use the cast off fabrics for making your paper. As summer is just about here, you can begin to use leaves and corn husks for your sandwiches and tacos shells.

Superb post Irv.


websnail:

Just to let you know, I've already sent in for my patent on "Fill Stiks" which will be packaged for checking individual ink color fill levels. I'm using color coded packaging so you won't mistake the Green for the Red Fill Stik, etc.

It's all good, webbie.

 

[Nifty]

Stratman, I'm just going to warn you in advance that I've already got a refill system in development for your color coded "Fill Sticks" packaging above.

The "Fill Sticks Eazy Fill" system includes:

Self tapping refill hole creation device (drill bit)
5,000 better quality "Fill Sticks" replacements (made in the US from renewable resources in a factory powered by solar and staffed by hurricane and tornado victims that will get full health and retirement benefits)
Refill hole capsulation material (tape)

 

[stratman]

Drat! You got me. All my shameless ripping off of websnail got me nothing but

Wait a minute... do you mean we're going into business together?

"Fill Sticks Eazy Fill" system - Great smash-up of webbie's SqueazyFill bottles and my toofpicks!

 

[websnail]

LOL... ok...

I think the best title for this new product would actually be:

"Fill Up Beginners Assistance Resource" KIT






Think about it...

 

[stratman]

Think about it...

 

[Nifty]

I'm surprised I actually got that!