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I have an ip3000 that's getting a bit long in the tooth - initially installed 02/10/2005 and 9000 pages. It has a new print head and has been taken apart to clean the absorbent pads. It prints just fine except I just got my first 5100 error on an auto duplex page. Cleared that and went on to...

No. No reason to suspect any magenta. This thing is just plain BROWN. And opaque. Of course, my yellows have always looked orange in the cart, as have yours and everyone else's. But they print yellow and, when diluted, look yellow, so no worry there. Also, as all the other colors are...

Well, I'm not worried as everything else looks OK. And if I really want yellow, I have some on hand. @Grandexp - If you have an "old" unused 6Y, has it changed color? I appreciate your suggestion that the purge unit could cause contamination though it is really mysterious for me to imagine how...

Does ink get old? Yes, I know all the cautions, etc., but here's a weird one. Last night I copped a used ip3000 for free. Guy from Craigslist says he just got married and now had two printers, so gave me the Canon. Wonderful. I appreciate it and will surely find a use for this. So, today I...

pharmacist, I want to congratulate you on your perseverance and thought in contributing to these topics. I'm little interested in this sort of thing but can see how many others would be. I haven't posted in a long time as my requirement is very basic and as long as I have a functioning printer...

Well, I'm not so sure. It was junk when I started then became nifty-stuff when I got here.

Thanks, pharmacist. I think that's right. Don't know why I forgot it. ghwellsjr, too. And thanks to all. Glad I've got a forum available to bring junk like this to.

Thanks for all the help. One person questioned which cartridge I had tried first - that was a PGI-5 and the result was so slick I thought I would never again have any problems! Ha Ha!. All of you have emphasised "slow and steady", not overfilling, etc., etc.. I've paid attention to that and...

In an earlier post I mentioned that I had tried the Durchstich method and was very satisfied. I mentioned that I thought it was "dead easy". That opinion was based on an experience sample of one or two cartridges. More recently, I've tried a couple of Canon CLI-8 cartridges and have made a...

This post is in answer to stratman, who posted a comment in another thread: http://www.nifty-stuff.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=26547#p26547 on the topic of this thread. That's OK, I suppose, but I've moved back here because I think it keeps things a bit more consistent. stratman, I think you...

Well no, stratman. I appreciate your comment and your concern but that is not exactly the case. The chips that have reset OK are on different cartridges. They are the Office Depot cartridges that I am talking about in this thread, the purpose of which is just to help folks be aware of what they...

on30trainman, Good suggestion. I've taken it and found an MP160 for $70. What a difference. About a year old, little used. Perfect condition and very clean. The poor guy had no idea what he was letting go. But maybe he needed the money. I don't know but it's a nice machine and built as it...

I had to do a lot of printing for an upcoming court appearance so a couple of these cartridges have gone empry already. So I refilled the CLI-8Y and the PGI-5Bk using the Durchstich method, which turns out to be really easy. The upper fill holes (the drill pressed one (?)) was actually sealed...

Right and right again. I've thought about Ebay and seen a couple of possiblitites there. It may be the best move.

Worse yet. The aborted install dropped Windows into diagnostic mode. Canon! Canon! Wherefore art thou?

While working on a couple of (old) Canon printers, both of which had, by the way, given good service for years, I went out and bought an MP620B so as to have a backup printer available. Remorse, remorse! These are on sale right now at Best Buy, Walmart and probably other stores for $99 (against...

pharmacist, I agree with you again. But here's a question for you. If the ink-level system is as you say, then how did the ip3000 give warnings that a cartridge was almost empty? A software counter? If so, why would that be inferior to a chipped cartridge. Yes, trick questions, but I'm just...

pharmacist, I agree with you about the B8550 u-turn. Kinda dumb for a large format printer. But it seems Canon is going to that type of feed, at least on their all-in-ones. Maybe it doesn't matter for an all-in-one but I always had trouble with that on every HP printer I ever had. Not just the...

I've had a look at the B8550 in a Best Buy store and though I have reservations about the paper feed method, I did get a look at the cartridges. What pharmacist has to say seems accurate. Oddly enough, though, the chips have only four contacts, the same as the Canon chips. Before seeing these I...

The set of CLI-8 that I bought the other day turn out to be OEM Canons refilled. I've seen that mentioned and as far as this set goes, that is confirmed. When you take off the sloppily applied Office Depot label you see the original Canon label. The refill is pretty hamfisted too. It looks like...