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Okay, well I'll probably be doing that today or tomorrow so I'll post back with results. Edit: Seems to have worked okay. Guess I was holding my mouth right. :)

Why do you think they're too dry (Especially since there's still moisture in the maze)? Do you think I wicked them too long?

I flushed a batch of carts and used the paper-towel wicking procedure until I couldn't get any more water out that way. (A couple days.) Then I saw the videos from mikling and toolman about weighing your carts, where they say if the carts weigh 14g or less they're dry enough. Well, after doing...

There's been a ton of discussions about how to keep the printhead from drying up; the most common suggestion seems to be to make a print every x number of days. But I had a thought (as I'm unplugging my Pro9000II for some weeks/months): Doesn't the printer purge every time you power cycle...

Should be.

I have replaced the M cart, the PM cart, and the printhead. Still, if the printer sits for a couple days the first half (more or less) of the first 8.5x11 print is red. Otherwise, prints are perfect. I'm going to go to OEM carts and see what happens.

Okay, well, I removed and replaced all the carts and now everything works just fine! Mods, if you think this thread is worth leaving up for some educational value, that's fine but if you want to remove it, I'm okay with that.

Several years ago there was a thread about how to get the Pro9000II to stop trying to recognize refilled carts. I don't have a resetter for this printer so before I found the thead, every time I'd put refilled carts in, I'd have to go through this routine where I had to hold the "resume" button...

Yes, the top edges are now inky.

Well, this has stopped being fun. After 4 days with the carts sitting out of the printer and no leaks, I put the carts back, did a cleaning cycle and a nozzle check, which looked fine. Then I took the head out and looked at it and this is what I found. It was clean when I put it in; isn't it...

Speaking of the wipers, if that's their job, isn't it appropriate that they should have ink on them?

What do you mean, "higher ink setting"? Exactly as Mike says to in his instructions which, as I said, I re-check every time I refill.

A very tricky job! :) No matter how much I clean, they don't look any different from my vantage point. So I just used cotton gloves with the finger tips dipped in windex. Blades look nice and clean now.

So I'm puzzled. I uploaded a nozzle check that showed "black" blobs on the leading edge of the paper (and good colors on the test strips). I found blobs of ink on the bottom of the printhead and the carriage it rides in. It was a lot of ink. But my purge pads are relatively clean (photo below)...

Even in the one that I posted, I see a distinct difference. They're similar but definitely different. Yow! At this time there is not even a slight amount of leakage.

As Roy said, the M and PM do look similar, but there is a (slight but distinct) difference to me. In fact, I can see 8 unique colors on my nozzle checks.

This is interesting, Peter. But I have questions: Isn't the nozzle check I already uploaded sufficient? The printer was idle for days, maybe a week, before I printed it on May 25. How did the yellow manage to avoid contamination? Concerning ink on the purge pads, how much is too much? The photo...

Okay, here's my refilling procedure... I'm scrupulous to the point of paranoia when I'm refilling. My procedure is slow and tedious but it leaves absolutely no room for mixing up the colors. This is what I do: I take out the sheet of instructions that came with the kit from PC and read it...

I believe the M cart is leaking. On Monday I put all the carts in a clear plastic container, sitting upright just as they do in the printer. I've found a tiny (tiny!) bit of M ink in the container where the cart's output port touches. I've cleaned up the container and the cart's port and put...

What I mean is, there's enough ink to cover a large portion of the print but it's uniformly distributed over the print. Why isn't it a blob like the "black" blobs on the nozzle check?