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Did you use a same profile or each ink used a different profile? If you used two different profiles that might be the source of the problem. It looks like you did overfill your cartridges. Here is a trick I do to prevent overfilling. I top fill my carts. I start out to fill up the reservoir to...

I have heard about this. I have refilled my Original set (including the yellow) and an empty set I bought from ebay. I have not had any problems so far. I never liked the idea of flushing the cartridges. I simply refill all carts without flushing. How much risk am I taking? I know I am betting...

I once had a half bottle of refill ink that I wanted to discard. I poured it into a glass jar and let it sit in the bathroom for several weeks. The ink just did not want to dry up. Very weird. I eventually flushed it down the drain. I don't know how fast the ink will dry up in the cartridge. I...

If you use a resetter and refill each carts to as full as a new OEM cart is then you can treat your fully refilled carts like new OEM carts. The printer will not know the carts are refilled. But this is based on an assumption that the resetter does reset the chip to a state of true emptiness. I...

I agree. Why not go back and set to use Canon profiles and print. It will tell you if the PC ink you got has an issue. If it prints closely to Canon colors the ink is OK. You will have a color management issue to fix then. If not then obviously you have an ink problem. If you no longer have...

Have you checked ebay? There are people selling new Pro-100 for $130 - $150. Some of the sellers actually take the print head out and sell them for $120. They sell the unused set of OEM carts cheaply too. By parting out and selling them separately they get more money than selling the printer as...

I was once a frequent visitor of this forum years ago. My understanding of how ink level is determined is mostly learned from this forum. Here is what I learned: The chips on the OEM carts have memory chips (EEPROM?) on them. The initial data in them are interpreted by the printer as ink level...

Does that happen to almost new Pro-100? My printer had not printed much after buying it new. The cartridges were OEM cartridges. I don't really think I had emptied almost all of them before I put the printer aside. I have since refilled the original cartridges. The printer did a long cleaning...

Buy a cheap set of prefilled carts and install them in the printer. Then store the printer. I would print a nozzle check once every month.

One huge difference between Canon and Epson print heads is Canon print head heats the ink to print. Epson print head pressures the nozzle to push ink out to print. If ink does not flow for any reason heating ink is like cooking ink. The water content of ink is vaporized first then the ink turns...

I once put my Pro-100 aside for a long while. The next time when I turned it on trying to use it I found almost all cartridges were completely empty. I don't remember they were so empty before I put the printer aside. I suspect the print head somehow sucked the ink out of the cartridges and the...

In my opinion it is more like a simple ink incompatible issue. Nothing was changed but the ink. It does not make sense that it is a color management problem since nothing else but the ink is changed. I am an amateur not a pro. I got my Pro-100 9 months ago and got my ink from Hobbicolors on...

Joe, glad that you gave a straight answer. Believe me, the whole issue has been a mystery to me. I am searching a true answer in order to avoid repeating the disaster that happened to me before. You can call me stubborn because I am on this issue. Why should I not be? A trouble free high quality...

Joe, thanks for your thoughts. I am not against anything. If refilling a Pro-100 with PC inks will require dumping or whatever it is to a CLI-42Y that is an indication to me the inks are questionable. I know it is probably a rare occurrence but it is a fact it is a problem and I think it is an...

Thanks for the great tip. I will eventually need to deal with the waste ink tank problem. I should take care of it early rather than late. It's good to know R288o waste ink tank will last longer than just one reset cycle. I will try to install an external waste ink bottle. I had good luck in...

I am concerned that I have to discard my OEM CLI-42Y cart. I know I can get the chip off and mount it on a CLI-8 to refill. The question is why should I need to do that? I don't think Canon did anything to the CLI-42Y cart to make it unusable by 3rd party ink. I doubt the Canon OEM Y ink is the...

I actually already refilling my R2880 with a set of 3rd party carts with basic ARC. I am completely happy with it. However, R2880 is a low end model, which could mean a shorter lifespan. I believe I have printed a lot on it. It is a discontinued printer. The replacement will be a R3880 which...

I have been using an Epson R2880 for large photos in recent years but I need a lower cost printing solution, such as using a Canon Pro-100, leaving the R2880 only for prints that desire to be very archival. There are plenty of cheap new Pro-100 out there.Then I see this thread and I am...

I have not been to this forum for a while. I don't know if this was discussed before. I just heard from a friend who said he saw an announcement back in May that Image Specialists was sold to another company in Florida. I do not see the announcement myself so I can't say if this is real...

I just wanted to point out that it does not make any improvement to trouble free printing by turning off the printer after idling for 10 minutes. It does help reducing green house effect on earth though.