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Well, I bit the bullet and bought another print head. I did umm and aah a bit as to whether to do this or just splash out on the Pro 100 but now that the Pro9000 II is back up and running again I've no regrets. I don't do much black and white and I've just made a couple of printer profiles for...

After cleaning the printhead and installing a set of purged and refilled cartridges all colours - with the exception of photo magenta - are now showing, to my eyes, a perfect result from the nozzle check. Quite why the photo magenta is now showing problems is beyond me and very disappointing...

@The Hat I did try letting the printer do the cleaning initially - two basic cleans, then a couple of deep cleans, then let it stand overnight but, in the morning, there was no difference and, even though ink is much less expensive bought through OctoInkjet, there comes a point when you have to...

I've now finished cleaning the printhead and, having dried it and reinstalled it, the cyan is worse than before and the photo magenta is also now partially blocked. I don't know why that's happened, I've not had it happen before where cleaning has made things worse. I'm going to leave the head...

@The Hat Reading your kind reply it occurred to me your logic was right so I opened the test image and there's nothing wrong with it. It then occurred to me that I was wrong - most of my test images were in A4 landscape but, when I first noticed the fault, I had used A4 cut in half (so A5) and...

The ink's about 6 months old, from OctoInkjet. I've not used OEM ink since the first set of cartridges became empty but all my cartridges are OEM ones. If the soaking doesn't work I will try squirting some isopropyl alcohol through the head. If this head can't be recovered I shall have to...

Over the last 2-3 days I've been creating new profiles for my Pro9000 II printer and my photo papers. After profiling I use a test picture to check the accuracy and, yesterday evening, I noticed thin parallel white lines in a blue section of the test print. I ran a nozzle check and saw nothing...

I started with the 'german' method when I had an i9100 with BCI-6 tanks and I continued this way when I replaced the i9100 with a Pro9000 II with its CLI-8 tanks. Then I started to get a problem with a couple of tanks - if I tried to refill them before they were empty the ink started to come...

@ equity44 I've been away since I posted my last or I'd have replied sooner. Yes, I do need to block the outlet when top filling - as you found out it is essential. I used to use the orange clip that you snap off a new cartridge together with a rubber band for this but I now use one of the...

I have experienced this on CLI8s which are similar, if not identical to, the BCI6 and reached the same conclusion as you. It used to happen with the cyan and magenta cartridges but I don't know that it's colour specific. When it happened I used to suck the excess ink out of the sponge using...

I have just filled some purged CLI-8s and also had a problem with the way the ink soaked across the lower sponge. The way I solved this problem was to, first of all, dribble some ink onto the outlet sponge and let it soak into the cartridge from the outside towards the inside, as it were, then...

The two times I cleaned the printhead came about because running the 'clean head' programme had failed. Thanks for the reminder to realign the head afterwards, I did that the first time but not the second. As for the advice re availability of printheads and second-hand printers it's good...

I have a Pro 9000 MkII. I have it because I need to print A3 colour on occasions and I am delighted about this because it's a great printer for all my needs and refilling's a breeze. I have now had occasion to clean the printhead a couple of times (easily done) and I have a good supply of OEM...

Hi Grandad35 Not so Sir, at least not to my knowledge. I have a Pro9000 II, I use a ColorMunki photo to make my printer profiles (using Epson papers and Octoinkjet inks). and I print via both Photoshop CS5 and DPP EasyPhotoPrint Pro depending on what I'm doing. I rather like the ease of use...

Good afternoon What a beautiful day - the sun's shining, the birds are singing, crocii are starting to appear in my front garden, and, up there near or at the top of the list: the printer is printing flawlessly once more. An overnight soak in Lidl W5 window and glass cleaner (sitting the...

@Wayne Yes, I could, except that the head's in soak right now, in Lidl's W5 window cleaner. Smells nice! I'll post a nozzle check afterwards if there's no joy. Mind you, my scanner's playing up right now so I'll have to photograph the printout and tweak the levels in Photoshop to show the...

@ Mikling Yes, change of cartridge has been tried to no avail. Funnily enough, that reminds me that I first noticed the problem when I changed the cartridge. It was empty, I swapped it out for a refilled one and when the problem appeared I refilled the empty one, replaced it and carried on but...

Good morning Last Thursday I started to print a large document; the first 5 pages were fine then the cyan appeared to stop printing without warning - no obvious streaks in advance. I noticed at about page 10 or 12. After 2 head cleans it started to work OK again but would stop printing again...

Redbrickman I currently have mixed inks in my Pro9000 MkII. The OEM inks still in use are black, red and green. The other 5 (C, PC, M, PM and Y) are all Octoinks which are Precision Colours ink iirc. For accurate print colours the theory is that I should re-profile the printer. In...

How? Following what path? The only link between the sponge chamber and the ink chamber is via the small rectangular hole at the base of the dividing plate between the two chambers, which means that the air has to pass through the ink to reach the space above the ink, unless the ink level is...