@Ink stained Fingers I have two printers in use. An HP 7500A that uses pigmented ink for color black and dye ink for MCY colors. Use it for general printings such as documents, drafts, graphics, general tests, etc.
My other printer is a Canon Pro-100 that uses only dye inks. This I use it just...
@ccc For the first part of your questioning I feel I can not help you, because I never wanted to take the risk of using pigmented inks on thermal printers designed for use with dye-based inks.
As you say that for the HP T120, the cost of the damage is small, perhaps it is up to you to assess...
As long as I know, there is essentially two dominant technology in the way printer prints. Epson uses piezoelectric print heads. Canon and HP use thermal print heads.
First we must bear in mind that pigmented inks are composed of tiny solid particles (the pigment). Dye-based inks are composed...
I suggest you see the Jose Rodriguez ("The Jtoolman") YouTube channel. Watch his playlist CANON CLI-42 Complete Modification Process (total of 18 videos).
As everyone said the jello effect occurs only with the yellow OEM ink.
I draw the attention to this: the issue is not related to the 3rd...