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Thanks for your encouragement! But there really exists such a thing as "a properly functioning printer"? I admit that I became a little pessimistic about that... What I'm trying now is to figure if all the troubles that I had with this printer were caused only by the improper refillable...

Yes, I know that the pigment black is separate, but I thought that the other colours are sharing the same nozzles. Isn't true? Thanks! A printhead for my model (Pixma IX6850) is about 100 USD and a new printer is about 250 USD (because it is A3/tabloid format). Not huge amounts, but neither...

Ordered one, let's see... Yes, I know this - I mean that the lack of ink flow from one of the cartridges can damage the print head by overheating. However, in my understanding, this will burn ALL the nozzles (in the dye inks sector) TOGETHER. But what you said in the previously quoted post is...

Thanks for your time, @stratman, I really appreciate! Firstly I have to say that there was no difference in the print quality before and after switching to OEM cartridges. The previous cartridges had other problems (ink leaking, drying without warning from the printer's sensor) that required a...

Well, I'm coming back with the nozzle check required by you, @stratman and with some more details. The absence of the black pigment is an older problem, that was discussed in a previous thread (https://www.printerknowledge.com/threads/ix6850-clogged-pigment-black.12047/) In the last two years...

Not sure if my issue has anything with the subject*, but today my printer (Pixma IX6850) started to print strange colors. So I executed a nozzle check and saw that the yellow is completely missing... I use a set of OEM cartridges that I bought a month ago from Octoink (already flushed) and I...

Interesting, thanks!

@ stratman: 80 ml of distilled water, 20 ml of isopropanol and 5 ml of ammonia-based glass cleaner. Maintained at a temperature of 50 -55 C, on a radiator. @turbguy: Thanks for the description, maybe once I'll have the time and courage to disassemble the printer and to fix the purge system, so...

Unfortunately, no trace of black pigment, neither after the print head has just been removed from the printer, nor after 30 hours of soaking in cleaning solution. In fact - as I more thoroughly described in post #13 and in the beginning of post #18 - the pigment ink even doesn't penetrate from...

Thanks again, @stratman, but just to be sure I understand correctly: do you say that the purge system does not have an airtight junction with the print head (when parked), so even if the printhead is clogged, this will not create a vacuum and the purge system will still be able to absorb the...

:rolleyes: Unfortunately, as I wrote in post #13, the ink not only doesn't flush out the printhead but even doesn't enter into it through the inlet filter, which I found is definitively clogged. After I wrote that, I further tried to unclog it by pulling/pushing cleaning solution or even air...

That's exactly what I thought would be the best compromise, to use the matte paper setting. I've been doing this for a month and the results are pretty good.

Ok, I understand that there are no answers to my last question :( ... so let's move on... Meanwhile, I received the new refill kit from OctoInkjet, containing recycled OEM cartridges and some very useful tools/accessories - as shown here: http://www.octoink.co.uk/news/415/. I can testify that...

Well, waiting for my new cartridges to arrive from OctoInkjet, I've tried once again to unclog the printhead. I soaked it for 8 hours on a tray with my homemade solution (4 parts of distilled water, 1 part of isopropanol and 20 drops of ammonia-based glass cleaner), I also put a hose filled...

It would be great if you had the manual for the IX6800 series and not for previous versions, as PeterBJ suspects. If yes, I could give you an email address to send me that document and then I'll try to reduce its size (or to divide it into smaller parts) and to post it here, for the benefit of...

I wished I had a service manual...

Hi @stratman, sorry for the delayed response but just this evening I had some time to do the test. Well, in the first part everything was ok, I managed to drop some distilled water on the purge pad for pigment black and it pooled there for 2 or 3 minutes, until I decided to re-plug the printer...

Thank you @stratman! I finally found the purge pads - as shown, step by step, in the attached pictures - but there are very hard to access because they are hidden beneath a wide part of the casing and away (about 12 cm) from the opening that the print head reveals when it moves to the left...

Hi all, I have the same problem that was discussed here: https://www.printerknowledge.com/threads/mp560-pigment-head-clogged.6136/ and tried all the recommended methods to unclog the printhead - even disassembling it once and flushing under the tap (fortunately, without damaging it) - but no...

I have been using a set of refillable cartridges (from Octoink) for one year and I always had the impression that they become empty too soon, as I'm not printing so much. However, I never counted the number of pages, so I assumed that maybe I'm wrong and this is the normal consumption... But...