While I was searching the archive for something I came across this thread. There is something that is worth some thinking about it.hazelnut said:Arghhhhh...I spent around an hour filling all the carts with the German method, I took out the old printhead on the MP 760 which seemed to have dried ink on the bottom near the chips (presumably not good), the old carts seemed to have condensation inside also. I installed the new printhead and the newly refilled carts, went to print head alignment according to the instructions here it then went through all the normal printer actions + noises but nothing is coming out on the page! I tried a second time with manual alignment but still nothing is coming out, can anyone help please?
It seems to be a common sense to do a nozzle check after installing a new print head with a set of refilled cartridges. This simple procedure ensures that the print head is getting inks and is in good working order ready for taking any command to print something. If the nozzle check tells that there is some problem otherwise, then even an alignment (some printing) should not be done. If proper ink flows are not established by the automatic cleaning cycle after the print head is installed any amount of printing could damage the print head permanently.
For unknown reason Canon printers always start with a print head alignment routine whenever a print head is installed. This is potentially a print head killing procedure. A nozzle check should be done first rather than starting off an alignment procedure. Fortunately you can stop it by pressing the STOP button on the printer if it is a multifunction printer. Or you can stop it by clicking no on the screen. Instead, invoke the nozzle check manually by yourself and check the print head first. Once the nozzle check is good then do the alignment next. By doing this you may actually save the print head yourself.
