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For 8.5 banners, any of the older HP 900 range and Panorama Factory works with the old fanfold paper or custom cut parchment paper. I used it for line drawings of ships, etc.

It's called 'Bait & Switch' - AKA fraud.

Yeah, well the smart money is in Greek bonds.

How about ink related torture ... owning a Lexmark? I still have a Sanyo Pr5000 daisy wheel. Fourteen CPS;weighs more than my car and sounds like an iron foundry - "Bi-directional", though.

Remember the cautionary tale. The bank lends me a thousand dollars and I can't sleep for worry. The bank lends me a million dollars and the banker can't sleep for worry. Every time the dollar drops a point, a Chinese banker breathes his last.

Shocking prices on Ebay for those trays. Previously, in Canada, the early printers (ip3000) were not CD print enabled (later and current printers come with the tray). I made a serviceable tray from the back of a thin DVD wallet. Cost was 30 cents Canadian. I also made one for an IP5600 that I...

I don't have a 4700 and it isn't listed at The Five Easy Steps http://pixma.ulmb.com/?p=105. ..but after the conversion you can run the CD label print program and the printer properties list the tray type.

I've never been in the situation where a cart emptied itself because of a fault - but it sounds like a good way to burn out a printhead. If the ink usage is measured by monitoring the firings of the head, how does it reckon the amount of ink being used in a head clean?

A cart is half full and reset. The cart develops a fault and the ink runs out - you are saying that the prism system no longer functions? A brand new OEM cart can lose all of it's ink and as far as the printer is concerned it's been hardly used? It doesn't sound right.

Hah! An empty cart is a consumable. What kind of $263 consumable is a coin flip as to whether it works or not? I don't doubt that for one minute that when a printer comes in for service, the first thing done is to put a ten dollar print head in and see if it works - if it destroys the head - no...

Since I use Canon carts, there is no problem with checking the ink level visually, but if they switched to an opaque cart it would it present a real problem? Weigh a filled cart on a digital kitchen scale, then figure our the amount/cc/weight of ink to squirt into it to refill.

Items four and five at the link have some information about Epson and spools. They don't seem to use the same file extensions as the Windows Manager. http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/epson/inkjet/sproxl.htm

Do a search for spool, spooler, epson, epson printer, epson spooler. If it isn't using the Windows Spooler it must have it's own.

If it is going to the Spooler, then you can change the Printer Properties to keep the spooler files (they won't be erased). This works on My Canon and HP printers.

Can you open the folder at C:\Windows\System32\spool\PRINTERS, initiate the nozzle check, then grab the .spl file before the printer completes.

It was covered here. http://www.nifty-stuff.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=3977

As qwertydude said;I got some ink refills at Dollarama (Canada) - a squeeze bottle with a blunt needle. Stroke the needle towards you at 45 on a smooth stone. Carefully clean up the hole with a pin - different sizes until a tight fit. Fill with water and it should squirt cleanly.

I had two fail;IP3000 and IP5200 The IP5200 started off showing inconsistent results - the nozzle check reflected that too. Flashing lights suggested that the head was defective - eventually the printer was unresponsive. I got a replacement head and that immediately failed, presumably the...

AFAIK, the ability to convert US Canon printers by altering the firmware ended at the IP4500. As a side note, Canon Canada lists the cd printing feature on the ip4700. Most (all) of the on line retailers in Canada, being lazy, simply use the US blurb advertising and don't mention the feature...

I did this with a genuine chipped Canon cart recently. The ink bubbled out the the vent and the exit hole. I'm sure it was because I sucked in air with the last of the ink at the bottom of the bottle - thus I was pumping air into the reservoir. I had to suck the ink out and purge the cart, then...