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D=000.15 means that your waste ink pads are filled 0.15%. So the waste ink counter was probably reset only some days ago. "ST" is indeed the date of the first start of the printer (aquired from the system time of the PC the printer was connected to then). The EEPROM print may show some other...

You can guide the waste ink outside the printer, but you will have to open it once to remove the waste ink pads and to put a jar or something like that under the purge unit. [pic] The time until the "waste ink pad full"-message depends. The guy from the pic says that he prints very much (one...

Really? Does it also work with the PGI-5? I think I've read somewhere that even if you disable the ink monitor faxes will not be printed automatically anymore, but I'm not sure about this.

Here's another interesting method: special carts where you don't have to seal the hole at all and which can be refilled inside the printer. I have no idea if this works well, though.

I would not dismantle the printer yet. First you need to reset the counter or all your work will be futile. I don't understand why it did not work for you. You know how to make an EEPROM print, so you obviously know how to enter service mode. And in service mode, the key combination for...

It seems the possibilities of sealing the refill hole are endless... :) Gismo2911 from a german forum likes to replace the original canon balls with stainless threaded piercing balls. Just put the screw on the ball if you want to remove it for refilling.

Hi canonfodder, any news yet on the chip resetter?

I think 90+% of the people in this forum fill their carts by drilling a hole in the ink chamber, refill and seal it afterwards with hot glue or a screw. I use this refill technique. Imho the method used is just a matter of personal preference, but I can definitely recommend refilling. It's...

Good idea! I'd do it if it was my printer, but I think the owner of it won't bother to... I was just wondering about it. But thanks anyway!

Here's a picture of another i865 with a strange behaviour: As you can see, half of one set of the big cyan nozzles doesn't work anymore. Therefore, there are dark red stripes in the left black bars and in the M and N parts of the nozzle check. Btw: I think it's an electronic problem in this...

Sounds interesting, although I can't imagine how to mark the chips in a way that the marks are not easily reproduced; they are too tiny for a fraud-resistant signature. Perhaps the borders of the chips are unique, so one could try to make a photo of that part under a microscope.

You probably know this already, but let me mention it again, just in case: If you made an EEPROM print, you can see how many pages you have printed until now at PAGE (ALL=). Sometimes you have to add other info like UCPAGE (All=). There you also can see how many pages you've printed on plain...

I don't think so. Why would they fill their heads with something that is meant to dry so fast (=ink) just to store and transport them?

I hope you did try new carts (preferably OEM)?

That's not bad. I think Canon says that their photo printers have a life expectancy of 10,000 pages and the all-around printers 20,000.

Wam7, if you want to check the nozzles, try an extended nozzle check in the service mode of the printer. The regular check is a little bit hard to interpret sometimes. Look at this picture: Even if 50% of all cyan and magenta nozzles are missing, the nozzle check looks not that bad.

There is only one thing you can do: get new chips. Take a look at the empty cart category at ebay if you don't want to spend the $ on new carts. Please note that the chips have color codes, so you will need one chip of each color. They also must be labeled appropriately, otherwise you will have...

I have two possible explanations for this long channel: Perhaps it should stop ink from leaking out when the user takes the cart out and turns/squeezes/shakes it, or perhaps it should keep the humidity in the cart to prevent the cart from drying out. But imho it's no problem to leave the hole...

No offense taken! Sorry if my words seemed to indicate that. I think it's good that you guys here put much thought into this method and share your ideas about possible problems. I think it's important to talk about things, and I do want to provide answers as far as I am able to. Unfortunately...

I think: There is either ink fed to the printhead, or air (if there is an "air tunnel" in the sponge). If the latter is the case, it's easier for the printhead to pull air than ink, so it will suck more and more air and starve and print streaks etc. This is not different to other refill methods...