Strange behaviour with aftermaket CL-581 cartridges

[pharmacist]

Recently I have bought a Canon TS701 printer to print on printable PVC ID-card, being unable to find a dedicated Epson ET-8550/P900 PVC-ID card tray (strangely enough the ET-18100 has one included). I also bought some Action (a Dutch discount shop that has multiple shops across Europe) Canon PGI-580/CLI-581 cartridges, for which I profiled the ink for my PVC-ID cards and some photo papers.

Strangely enough after a few days the prints are way off: it produces with a strong greenish cast, despite having profiled the ink/paper/printer combination. The nozzle check is always perfect:

But today I tried to print a test image on some cheap photo paper, which I have profiled previously. The first print has strong greenish hue (the image below), but after the first print the printer performed a small intermediate cleaning cycle and I printed the image again and bang: the colours are now OK....not sure what causes this strange behaviour. It looks like the cyan cartridge ink seems to concentrate after a few day of non-usage. I have never seen this before:

 

[The Hat]

Strangely enough after a few days the prints are way off: it produces with a strong greenish cast, despite having profiled the ink/paper/printer combination. The nozzle check is always perfect:

From what I can gather, these newer Canon printers don’t like compatible inks, it can cause an early retirement of the print head, try refilling with Canon bottled inks, I suppose that’s not what you wanted to hear..

 

[pharmacist]

It could be cartridges too or the ink inside these cartridges. I have ordered another aftermarket set of cartridges and will see how these will behave in the printer.

 

[pharmacist]

Yesterday I received my aftermarket cartridges and they weight significantly heavier than the Action.be PGI-580/CLI-581 cartridges (probably only sponge side with ink, but they are opaque, so I cannot see if the ink compartment is filled with ink or not). But since these aftermarket carts are transparent I have to conclude (due to the much heavier carts), the Action.be PGI-580/CLI-581 carts are standard capacity carts with only the sponge side soaked in ink....They also seem to be drained very quickly. My smaller Canon TS705 is primarly used for printing PVC-ID cards. I have produced a special 280-patch target (on both sides of 2 blank PVC-ID cards) and printed a test image......after a few days I will reprint on the other side and see if these cartridges suffer from the strange colour shift problem I had with the previous Action.be cartridges that tends drift in colour fidelity after a few days of non-usage.

 

[wilko]

Have three TS700 series printers. Best ever Canon budget printer, IMO. I always use good quality ink, OCP or Inktec in refillable ink cartridges from Ali Express. Have printed well over 1500 pages with just one blockage. Don't bother with Canon cleaning, hardly ever works. Just whip out the printhead and a syringe and nozzle and hot water combination does the trick. Cleaning nozzles are available sometimes on Ebay.
I never use aftermarket carts so can't comment on their quality. However, quality ink is vital. Even if the ink cartridge is fine, what is the point of wasting your photo paper on low photo quality prints.
Most of the non oem ink cartridges and ink, on sale, on Ebay etc. are produced in China, as is most of the things we purchase.
Quality printer ink is probably the last bastion of non Chinese production. "Octoinkjet" (Image Specialists) arguably offers the best quality ink in the UK but it is a little expensive for large quantity prints but for occasional photo prints, it's the one to go for, imo.
Remember this site was founded on ink refilling and I will continue this tradition until some time that a printer is produced with ink cartridges that cannot be refilled.
Will always love this site and many thanks to those who helped me in the days when an inkjet blockage on an IP 4000 was akin to a major catastrophe.
Budget Printers are now just throw away items but it was not always thus. Going back to the IP3000- IP4000. A printhead failure was like a dagger to the heart. Probably over exaggerating but what it meant to some of us.
The help on this forum was amazing. There was no Google search to help, only forums like this, which, imo, was the best.