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Hello again. Sorry I haven't replied sooner. So, it turns out my previous statement that solid colors looked fine wasn't entirely correct. When printing as plain paper, there was a faint banding in the magenta, which got much more noticeable over the summer. But on other media types, and on the...

They looked fine as in no sign of blocked nozzles or ink starvation. I didn't do any color accuracy inspection of the test sheet.

I use the inkset from Octoinkjet.

Large blocks of color looks fine (except some shade banding in pigment black, but no missing lines). Nozzle check looks fine. Switched to my other set of cartridges, but no difference. Setting the Windows driver to Magenta +30, Cyan -30 makes photo prints look OK white-balance-wise. Oh well. If...

Not really. Quite the opposite, in fact: Their business is selling ink. Printers are devices for making people need ink. The easier it is for users to refill or get compatibles, the less profit there is for Canon.

I should add I've been driving this printer hard, over 2000 pages (mostly text/illustrations on plain paper) in ten months.

Recently (last month or two) my photo prints have had a green cast. I'm using refillable cartridges (CLI-551, refilled OEM not an option). I don't recall the cast being there in the spring, but I don't recall when I switched from compatible cartridges to refillables and installed this magenta...

I have the MG6650, which uses PGI-550/CLI-551 cartridges. I use refillable aftermarket compatibles with autoreset chips, and inks from Octoinkjet. I had some setup issues which I now think were user error rather than printer problems, except for two cases of cyan contamination in the magenta...

Sorry, no idea. I haven't been able to find a description of CUPS printer commands anywhere.

This is taken from the Canon-supplied Linux driver for the Pixma MG6650. It may or may not work on Mac, though OS X uses the same print system (CUPS) as GNU/Linux. Create a two-line plain text file, make sure it's ASCII encoded (or Latin-whatever, or UTF-8, but not "ANSI" or UTF-anything else)...

Try printing a test sheet, for example this one: http://cream.sourceforge.net/ColorCard.pdf It's easier to judge if the colors are messed up from a sheet like this. I'm not familiar with the Pro-100, is it possible that a cartridge is leaking onto the printhead and the ink gets into the wrong...

No real alternative with x51-carts. They're not transparent so no way to inspect ink levels when refilling. And no resetters until this year, even though the carts have been around for three years or so.

After a couple of refills of compatible cartrdiges on my Pixma MG6650 (PGI-550/CLI-551), I wish I could reset the carts manually rather than having to wait for the ink monitor to signal empty and the auto-reset function to trigger. The carts consistently drain faster than the ink level...

Canon Europe has a recycling program. They send you a prepaid envelope and you stick the spent cartridges in it and mail them back to Canon. HP has the same thing, I expect Epson too.

Thanks for your advice. I bought the printer primarily as a document printer, and figured poor photo printing was part of the tradeoff for using cheap consumables. I don't have shelf space or money to spare for a pigment printer now, so I'll order prints from Fuji when I need something to hand out.

Hello. I use non-OEM ink in my Pixma MG6650 (CLI-551 cartridges) from a source that's well-regarded here, and I note that photos I print seem to fade quite rapidly in sunlight. The cyan colour seems most affected. Other than minimizing sunlight, what factors influence fading? Is the paper...

A problem with installing switches on hard drive power lines is that the neither the OS nor the bios expect disks to suddenly power up or down, so if you flip the switch by accident when the computer is on you risk data loss.

Sorry to revive an old thread, but I can't get the colour test pattern to print. I've gone into the printer driver colour settings and checked the "print test pattern" checkbox. Then clicked "test print" in the driver, and I got the pattern, but it was all text so no good. Checked the test...

I think the other carts are affected too, but certainly the cyan is draining too quickly. I haven't seen any messes, but the ink has to go somewhere, and I have had a couple of cases of cross-contaminated color (cyan in magenta channel), always fixed after a couple of sheets. I've ordered a...

I was interested in the Ecotank models when I was printer shopping last summer, but the models that were available in Norway then (ET-2500 and ET-4500) didn't have duplex, which made no sense to me considering the low price difference between the low-end Epson printers with/without duplex. I...