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Honestly, if you can afford to purchase OEM ink, I think you should do so for the benefit of others. The printer mfrs, need the revenue, printer prices are going up bigly. Darn, ordered a Pro-200 today. $800 CAD. I paid $199 and $34 for my two Pro-100s. A couple months or so ago I paid $1300...

If you want to come down to the last penny, Here is the perfect way to go about this. Construct an extractor by putting a needle through a storage clip or cover. Extract ALL the ink from every single cartridge. Suck out all the foam etc. Put into a bottle. Using a set of such bottles, REFILL and...

Some members here would recommend a Maxify machine and it is certainly a fine printer that IMO is heavily oriented towards office duty primarily. Photos are blurry and intentionally done so by Canon to not impinge on their photo printer range. If you print a lot and need color that might be the...

These are pretty good printers as long as you understand one of it's key weakness. No matter what you do, if you print intermittently with this printer air will enter the printhead and then cause bad nozzle checks. Attempts to clear the bad nozzle checks with head cleans may produce worse...

1. The chip contains memory registers or stored data. As the printer uses the cartridge, it writes or modifies the data on the chip. 2, It does not have to remember it simply looks at the data on the chip. It reads it and it says a certain value and it knows. 3. Cartridges NEVER know they are...

You are indeed a little confused. The x51 cartridges are likely to have ARC chips on them. So the method of removing and replacing should effect a reset if they are indeed ARC chips. The X81 tanks will never reset on the other hand. So you will need to go about the disable ink monitoring for...

Here. This applies equally/identically to OEM and One time use "so called permanent" chips on all x5x, x7x, and x8x tanks. Tested this on multiple machines.

The second sheet had been having head strikes where the non flat areas were touching the nozzles and disturbing the ink nozzles. In so doing it has wicked ink from the nozzle holes and thereby printing chamber causing an absence of ink in the nozzle and no printing. The rightmost bar on the...

In confuse speak, they indicate that it is a one time use chip but you can continue to use them when they go to empty. What they fail to describe is that can only be done AFTER performing a disable chip. I've spent several months testing these and all forms of testing going back to the x50-x51...

One of my customers just sent an email about weird P400. All kinds of stuff happens.

Users now need to appreciate and understand that all the while ARC chips/processors are all hacks. There is no guarantee that they will always work the way you think they should work even though they may have worked before. The makers got them to work but that does not mean they will always...

It appears that the 3880 was possibly not used enough for what it needs. Otherwise other than the wear of the dampers, this is actually a VERY solid machine. If this machine was not reliable enough, then your expectation of something significantly better might be an overreach. The other issue...

I will now advise for the solution. Preamble: This problem illustrates how complicated even older printers such as the 3880 can be when it comes to electronics. Believe it or not there appears to be either a common bus continually signalling or a single errant bit of a chip can affect the data...

Did Google play a part in how people figure out that cleaning a printhead would resolve mechanical indentations on a printed sheet? I guess that's what happens when things become so high tech nobody understands fundamentally how anything works anymore. I mean we have virtual meetings, virtual...

In this period of gloom and doom for refilling, I just saw this google ad pop up on my screen for a Canon TS5020. Canadians can obtain one of these for $89.99 which is close to $60USD. I am currently using one and have three more tucked away. I purchased mine for as low as 39.99 CAD and as high...

Those were the days that Epson OEM dye ink was very susceptible to ozone. The only resolution was Epson had "special" swellable papers to extend the life of prints.

Looking at my Pro-300, I've observed that the side panels have screws at the rear which infers that Canon put them there so that they are easier to remove. Perhaps this makes the service center replacement simpler and less costly.

As a young lad I knowingly got a fake Rolex when I was in HK in the very early 90s. I went to the ladies street and then I asked for one after a picture was shown. After indicating the one I wanted, it was delivered by someone ten minutes later. I KNEW what I wanted...it was kind of fun then to...

That's the thing. The third party fluids can be used even in the P800 for example. However it can be argued that Epson indicates that the protection measure they have placed in there like Serial number and ink level memory is to protect the consumer from fakes. Remember, even on the Canon small...

About the Magnusson thingie, it is incumbent for the aftermarket to figure out the secret to make chips. What if the difficulty is so high BUT STILL POSSIBLE that the aftermarket is unable due to resources to come up with a solution. Then the mfr is clear of any legal issues. I suspect Epson...