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I will soon be refilling my original Canon CLI221 cartridges with Image Specialists ink for the first time. Currently the iP4600 ink monitor says there is about 25% ink left. Will there be any problem if the original Canon ink gets mixed with the Image Specialists ink? Would it be better to wait...

ghwellsjr, thanks for the quick response. I don't intend to use this printer with photo paper. I will only use it for B&W text on plain paper and for some color printing, again on plain paper. From what you say, the printer should work perfectly well if used in this mode. So I propose to...

Eventually I attempted this procedure. The magenta nozzles appear to be OK now :). The nozzle check was done with an empty yellow cartridge with some window cleaning fluid, and the other cartridges are still compatibles. It looks a great improvement to me, but what do the lines on the vertical...

Maybe not at start-up, then, but one of the most annoying features of the iP4600 is that at any point it can decide it wants to run a cleaning cycle. You may be rushing to print off a one page document when the printer decides to go into a cleaning cyle for about an hour (well, perhaps about 1...

Thanks. That's reassuring to know. Also, how does the iP4600 know whether a cleaning cycle is required when you switch on? Does it monitor elapsed time since it was last used, or is it somehow able to check the state of the nozzles? I'm interested because if I use the printer infrequently it...

duncan22: Please post back if you find anything. I've been searching without success for a (free) printer manual. When I joined this forum two weeks ago, I knew nothing about inkjet printer technology. I know a little more now through this website, but not enough. I'd like to find a detailed...

You leave the iP4500 for three weeks? That's interesting. What I'm considering doing at the moment is buying a B/W laser printer for the majority of my printing which does not need to be colour. My wife has an HP printer I could use for the odd colour print, but the quality is poor. If I can get...

Thanks for the information on ink supplies and refilling kits in the UK. I was not aware of these outlets. What do you mean by a defined number of passes - number of sheets of paper? If this is so, how do you take account of the fact that the cartridges may run down at different rates? Or do...

I've been looking for older used printers like the iP4000 or MP780 but unfortunately in the UK I have only seen them on eBay where I can't be confident of their condition. Actually replacing the print head and cartridges in my iP4600 does not seem to make sense in the UK. A new print head for...