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Gday everyone:love I often pop in here to lurk but everyone has moved on to new printers & no one talks about antique printers like my Pro 9500 anymore & I feel I don't have much to offer. Anyhow if you remember a year ago I posted about getting bad printouts in my Colormunki test prints & it...

Yes the stuff they sell in our chemist is Vegetable Glycerine & is thicker than Propylene Glycol. I buy mine online because I vape too.

Thanks Hat I will give that a try. I thought it was a bit strange to get three go wonky in just a few days after years of no problems & the red cart has only a few resets done on it. I have the resetter for the PGI9 which does most of the CLI8 carts so I will try that as well.

Strange things are happening I now have the CLI8 Red, PC & PM carts saying the cart can't be recognised. Does this mean the chips are buggered? They reset OK & the light comes on when the cart is inserted into the head & then the amber light blinks. This is still with the old head as I'm making...

You were right Stratman only Emu & the Hat replied. Blimey I didn't know you couldn't take the head out with the carts in, when I put it back together I bet it looks obvious you can't. Old people shouldn't be let near a printer a. Thanks Hat I will do it the way you said once my flushed carts...

Gday all hope your all doing well. I have a new head for my Pro 9000 & I will use the old one for applying gloss optimiser to my 9500 prints. Can I remove & install the head with all the carts still in it? It won't do anything to the electrics will it? Only brainy posters need to reply:-)

I use CS6 & only use less than 10% of it's power so if your shots are done right in the camera then Elements maybe all you need. I think Elements has layers etc so if you are using most of the abilities of Elements then you may gain a little something from Photoshop but it's an overkill program...

Thanks Mike I will give that a try. It would be good to have two heads running one with ink & one with GO.

Thanks Mike. What is a cleaning cartridge? My minds a blank, do I just fill my PM cart up with some cleaning fluid like Windex & then run the printer?

Will do thanks mate.

Great Thanks Hat:-) Another dumb question, what type of picture do you use to print? I don't think the 70% black will fire the colour carts, will it?

Gday all, I have a new 9000 printhead coming because of my photo magenta channel being partially blocked (white lines in the nozzle check) so I want to use the old head for coating my 9500 prints with GO. I did try printing the same 70% grey in greyscale mode on the 9000 & it worked just as well...

Gawd Martin sounds as brainy as me now a:-)

Canons dye inks will last a lot longer than refill inks if they are not behind glass. I have some Canon dye ink & IS refill dye ink photos displayed behind glass on my walls for over 5 years now & they both still look the same. So you will have no problems with the IS inks & they look just as...

Yes the magenta rings a bell like you say Martin. I will cut one of the carts open & have a look so watch this space. Well don't sit there watching because I'm notoriously slow at doing things:-)

I really can't remember so I read through the start of this thread & it seems I only started flushing the cart after the problem raised its head. So maybe it was just the carts going slightly wonky. As far as I could tell the only problem the carts had was a hard to see magenta smudge near the...

Gday Martin, It looks like both my Pgi9 cartridges were at fault. The new Canon magenta cart has been refilled twice with no problems. I don't know if I damaged the spring mechanisms in the old carts when cleaning & flushing them out, the outlet sponges on both have lost that grid or honeycomb...

Yes this is an excellent place to learn & I've really enjoyed getting to know everyone. Well done Rob.

I've just had a look at the two magenta carts I flushed out which are not working properly now & as Palombian said the surface structure has changed, there's no longer the little squares or dimple pattern in the flushed carts sponges as there is in the unflushed or OEM carts. I wonder if this...

Hat, One of the bad carts had a Rolls Royce clean & it was spotless but still it didn't perform properly. I was wondering if the blowing up & sucking the bag back in may have altered the way it works but you have done it enough times with no problems so maybe something in both carts just started...