Saving a canon pro 10 printer, one day at a time.

[Cassiop38]

After the successfully save of a pro 10, i got my dirty hands over a pro 10s that was sitting idle for 2 years. Most cartridges weren't empty but some were very low. I didn't installed a potty yet so i don't know if the printer attempted anything, headcleaning related, when i fired it up. and still not sure how much ink is soaked when you change the cartridges. Anyway i swapped all cartridges with inktek refilled ones, from printout24, and gave it a try.

Right After the swap, the printer perform some kind of purge that restarted most of the colors but not all. Y was missing, R is not perfect, PC a small band and GY was drunk.

immediatly after a head cleaning Y came back but not entirely, GY was better but not perfect, PC and R are now fine.


I let the printer sit for 2 hours and now GY is completely fine, Y was still missing the bottom.

I let the printer sit for 2 days and the Y is now fine.


Conclusions : Time is an ally, a single head cleaning was enough to recover this pro 10s that was sitting idle for 2 years. I wasn't that experienced with the pro-10 but it roughly went the same. The most expensive part was mostly investing in ink and resetter. And finding a second set of empty cartridge wasn't that easy either but now that i have it i'm fine.

Next step is salvaging ink from a pro-1 and try that ink in the pro-10s over the inktek one (that i don't like) and see how it goes. the step after that might be trying octoink ink. Oh and i want to find a pro 100 !

 

[The Hat]

Conclusions : Time is an ally, a single head cleaning was enough to recover this pro 10s

All the colours look good but unusual for the CO. to be missing ?

 

[Cassiop38]

All the colours look good but unusual for the CO. to be missing ?

CO is there but with inktek's CO it is even less noticeable than with canon's.

I just refilled 2 set of pgi-72 using pgi-29 ink, i'll post a scan of the nozzle check once i do the swap.

I have to figure what happened to a Red cartridge first. It seems it has dried from inside. Refilling it is really slow. And i constently have foam forming on the nozzle when i squeeze the cartrdige. Have you ever experienced something like that ? I should ditch it but i wonder if venting all air and putting fresh ink inside will saves it

 

[The Hat]

but i wonder if venting all air and putting fresh ink inside will saves it

You may need to flush out the cart to get back to good working order, you can get one of these flush clips from OctoInkjet or make one yourself, they make cleaning real easy..