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Thanks everyone for all your help. I'll have to look at some alternatives to what I'm doing now. Cheers!

Thanks leo8088. I just figured ink was ink. Should have known better. :) The packaging and materials on my recent batch were almost identical to OEM. They had the same orange cap, same sealed plastic bag. Is it possible to buy something like Hobbicolors already inside a cartridge?

When I printed an extended nozzle check, some of the blue ink did not show up. It's not a perfect scan, but the 2nd, and 4th blue rows only have a few dots at the beginning. http://i431.photobucket.com/albums/qq34/danbuhler/2010_01_31_18_04_55.jpg

So far changing my ink cartridge has fixed the problem. It's still printing perfect colors. Thanks! @leo8088 What's bad about generic cartridges? They are certainly less work than refilling.

Thanks for all the useful information. I'll do a scan & a photo here. The scan didn't quite capture the colors. Scan: http://i431.photobucket.com/albums/qq34/danbuhler/canon1.jpg Photo: http://i431.photobucket.com/albums/qq34/danbuhler/IMG_7143.jpg Photo (different white balance)...

My colors have started to run blue. After doing several deep clean cycles, everything looks fine, but after 10 minutes or so, it's back to being blue. I've soaked the print head in isopropyl alcohol for about 5 minutes and plenty of blue came out. Also dabbed a bit of alcohol where the ink goes...