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Thanks for the input Peter, yes the BJC just reminds me of the old canon bubble jets when they first came about, at the time dot matrix printers where still very prevalent, I remember how quiet they where. The page counts I've seen on the IP series canons are impressive so I've been leaning...

Ok so we are up and running! had a flow problem with the cyan and fixed that by blowing into the vent, the ink outlet port on the cart was partially dry...note to self "make sure outlet port sponges are fully saturated before insertion into printer" After fixing that nozzle tests where...

I hadn't thought of that, scanning a picture through it. cheers Ant

This is encouraging, so to the best of your knowledge they pretty much all play ball with vista? no one has mentioned the BJC... probably too old eh?

Awesome post! ;)

yes with the clip and rubber band and I have zero'd and accounted for that, the scale is digital but only weighs down to a gram, not 0.010g

Also, each cartridge has had 6cc's of ink syringed in, as marked on the syringe, they are all weighing the same. So I am in a catch 22 now, the prism needs to be covered....but I know I mustn't over-fill the cartridge either..

Positive its the 226 as its the magenta, the sponge has taken every drop out of the reservoir as I syringed it in, I can see clearly through the hole in the top of the cart right through the prism in the bottom.

The weight of the cartridge 20grams when full. cheers Ant

So of these 2nd hand printers, which one/s would you go out and "kick the tires"? i'm running vista btw.. Canon BJC 4300 IP3300 MP600 MP560 MP480 They are all super cheap and I wondered which ones are the "diamonds in the rough" and which ones you wouldn't touch with a "barge pole" For a back...

Cheers The Hat, so top them up beyond the weight they should be at? so the prism is definitely covered with ink? cheers Ant

A bit of colour theory eh? makes sense, just finished doing my first refill! not sure if it went ok though... two of the carts I top-filled sucked every drop of ink out of the reservoir so I could still see the clear prism below... I weighed them and they are the correct weight... so... I...

So just spent some time processing my used set of oem 226 cartridges, flushed out the gray cartridge and the sponge appears to be magenta stained... Flushed with distilled water, is this accidental chromatography? gray isn't a primary so it has to be made up from a couple of colours eh? The...

ink outlet port is wider.. has different flow characteristics? yet the port it mates to in the printer is round and not elongated... perhaps it aids in sliding into the printer with the lugs either side of the cartridge helping to apply downward force between the cartridge outlet and the...

I'll get my coat....:/

a dot of super glue might work:)

Hey Peter, Yes I hear you about the magenta cast, I noticed this and it was fixed by using the profile in photoshopp for my printer and the canon paper I used, I was amazed with the difference, the colours where very accurate. Though I do find the provided manipulation/workflow software that...

Yeah my canon printer can use 8.5x11, its a canon MG6220 ink guzzler, I have precision colours image specialists ink at the ready but not yet in the printer and I've read on here that canon oem ink doesn't play well with "non" canon papers but its most likely fine with IS inks?

Funny you should mention staples, I got the bogo deal a few weeks back with 4x6 canon glossy paper, the standard stuff. I don't currently have a costco membership and a friend of mine who had one moved up north.. do you find their paper ok in use? Took delivery of a precision colors kit...

Recently purchased a Canon MG6220 ink guzzler, after reading up on re-filling here I decided to keep the orange twist off caps that came with my Canon cartridges, even though Canons instructions stated "Make sure you throw away the orange twist off caps..." So having way too much time on my...