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Defcon2k, Your method of determining how much filling is correct sounds very good. I know that you are using the approach where a long needle is put through the back end of the cart, right at the bottom, having that needle go under the bottom sponge to reach and enter the ink/air passage...

A warning about CLI-8 carts ! This warning concerns a manner in which a cart can be blocked from releasing ink, resulting in missing color in your print when such blockage occurs. We should all know that the carts have an air vent up in the top through the thing we call the labyrinth. If you...

Remember that the lower sponge holds quite a bit of ink. If it was not depleted, you might only get 9mL or so of ink to go in. Don't force the ink on up into the upper sponge. You won't necessarily create a disaster, but the upper sponge was not intended to hold a lot of ink, and the vent air...

Trigger 37, I think I have at least a partial answer to a test which will compare the two papers. I want Grandad35 to check this out and comment. He would be a significant player in the test. What I propose is the extension of an ink comparison test program that we, (Grandad35 and I) have...

Trigger 37 asked me a question earlier, but our very helpful Forum members have done a fine job of answering the question. I first purchased Image Specialists ink from MIS because of Neil Slades reports. Later I decided to buy my Image Specialists inks from http://www.precisioncolors.com/ ...

Not so, Trigger 37! Canonfodder does have the iP4200, but "he probably knows most of it." does not apply. Canonfodder is very interested, but there are too few hours in the day to do even one quarter of the things he would like to do. So, digging into the workings of the iP4200 has taken a...

Grandad3, See my edited post. I just can't help it.

Grandad35 is correct about the air. Think about it. There sits the cart with a little ink in its tank side, and lots of air above it. If you push some ink in there through a sealed in needle, the ink has to go somewhere, but the air is captive and can't get out of the way, so the ink just goes...

rdsmith, I think Lilla hit the answer when it was suggested that you might have mixed the chips. They are specific to color. If you did not know that, and pulled all the chips before putting them on the compatible carts, you had good odds on mixing them up, and the printer's errors would be...

So, January has come and gone and the company in Canada which stated that they are a distributor for the Armor company of France, took my "pre-order" but kept postponing, so I cancelled my order. The big reason which caused me to cancel was knowledge which I gained by poking and probing which...

rdsmith, Don't worry about the cart lights going on and off. They do have meaning, but you can't do anything about their ON and OFF conditions. When the printer decides that the chip information shows the cart to be empty, it should ask if you want to continue printing, and if you do, you...

I will wish for Kodak to issue a printer that is NOT "All-In-One", though many in homes will not agree with me. I have a preference for separate machines, leaving me free to pick each machine type on its individual merits. Personally, I don't even need any copier, though my wife does. If I...

Well, I for one have certainly been wishing for such a business model change of this sort by all the players. I don't know anything about Kodak and how good they might be at making printers, but if Canon changed their ways, they could make a lot of happy customers. Those customers that only do...

Better stick some OEM carts in there and take or send it to Canon Service. You must still be under warrantee for that logic board.

Xeroid, I am anything but a "heavy user", but I have been doing some very serious work on CIS systems for the modern Canon printers like the Pixma iPxxxx series. I think that soon I will be able to help you and others with a reliable CIS unit that does not depend on fussy tweaking and...

Brac, You sure can do that job yourself ! Well, lets say that you sure can if you can use a screwdriver and pliers and have a bit of skill at mechanical things and remembering what you took apart, and what goes where. I say all this while not knowing a thing about your model printer! I can't...

Just a brief note* about the cartridge prism and the optical detector it is supposed to work with. Right now, my Pixma iP4200 has 1 OEM cart with the tank quite empty and just the early warning showing. This printer has 3 refilled OEM carts with the tanks now empty. The OEM carts were declared...

Ocular, it may well be that ANY sponged cartridge will require cleaning or purging after so many refills or after so much ink in the CIS which uses sponged carts. Rather than replace your carts, consider the purging method developed by Grandad35. It has been tried by many cart refillers and...

Chickens, I guess you would have to scan your print at a much higher resolution before we could see just what you see. To get enough, you would have to scan at 1000 pixels per inch. This might seem slow, but you don't have to scan the whole document. Just scan the area where you see the line...

Chickens, I would not normally complain of the apparent line mislocations that you are seeing, but I thought I would look closely. You do not have enough resolution in the image to see those lines as clean lines. For a line to look really neat you would need to have 5 pixels or more in the...