Mixed up the chips - any solution?

[miltos]

Hi - I've been messing with a CISS for my Canon Pixma MP530. The first one I got was defective so I finally got them to send me a new one as a replacement. In my infinite ineptitude I forgot to glue down the chips when I installed the new CISS. So now I have 5 lonely chips that want their cartridges back. Is there any way to tell which chips go with which cartridges, or am I S.O.L.? I did manage to see that each chip has some kind of unique "code" on it: aR7, aB6, fT6, cB7, dQ5. Anyone know if those correlate to specific colors?

If I'm doomed, then what is my next step? Can I purchase just the chips (haven't found anything through Google)? Any suggestions are VERY appreciated.

 

[headphonesman]

Hi - I've been messing with a CISS for my Canon Pixma MP530. The first one I got was defective so I finally got them to send me a new one as a replacement. In my infinite ineptitude I forgot to glue down the chips when I installed the new CISS. So now I have 5 lonely chips that want their cartridges back. Is there any way to tell which chips go with which cartridges, or am I S.O.L.? I did manage to see that each chip has some kind of unique "code" on it: aR7, aB6, fT6, cB7, dQ5. Anyone know if those correlate to specific colors?

If I'm doomed, then what is my next step? Can I purchase just the chips (haven't found anything through Google)? Any suggestions are VERY appreciated.

From what I remember the codes themselves are to do with manufacture of the chips, the colour designation of a chip is carried out seperately , i.e. the chip is "told "what colour its going to be , regardless of the code , but I could be wrong , if so someone else out there will tell us.

Normally if you place a cart in the wrong place in the head, the machine tells you that the cart is in the wrong place, I would affix a chip to a cart and insert into each place until the Machine was "happy" , that chip is then the colour of its "happy place" .Then work through the other chips in the same way.
If I had a spare set with their chips still in place i would install them , take out one and work through the chips one by one in the vacant colour slot until the machine was "happy". Place this chip on its appropriate colour cart/place. This would be quicker I think.
I am presuming that you have a chip re-setter, or that the chips still have "life" .

What I have stated seems to be a bit to simplistic , I may have misunderstood or missed something about your current circumstances regarding the installation of CISS , which I have no experience of , but please comment further on what you can and cannot do about my suggestions. Hopefully other Forum Members will have some better suggestions or be able to refine those I have stated.
Please advise your actual resolution. Good Luck!

 

[Manuchau]

You could certainly find some genuine Canon empties at a reasonable price, reset them and use the reset chips in your stsyem, unless I've missed something.

Good luck!

 

[mikling]

Your best strategy I think is thus.

1. Either get a similar functioning printer with working chips or get a set on your own printer.
2. Fill one of the cartridges with a neutral liquid like distilled water use this as a test cartridge.
3. Install the chip and place the test cartridge into each position until the printer accepts it. This time carefully mark the cartridge as being which color.
4. Remove the chip and install another on the water body.
5. Now this chip will belong in one of the other 4 colors.
6. Repeat two more times,
7. The last one is by the process of elimination now.

If you use the slim body, and it is not accepted in all the slim cartridge positions then it is the PGI-5 chip.

You've now figured out the chips.

Good luck.

 

[miltos]

Wow, I appreciate all the suggestions. Thank you.

I think the difficult part of this process is "until the printer accepts it." I cannot tell what constitutes the printer accepting it. I thought it would be that the LED light would come on, but now I've got all 5 LED lights coming on - flashing - and it's still telling me "ink tank errors have occurred." Oddly, the blue cartridge only flashes once for every 4 times the other cartridges flash. And if I close the lid, let the carriage return to home position and then open the lid again, none of the LEDs are lit. I found some auto-reset chips on eBay for $22 so I might go with those. I will post back as I try to figure this out and hopefully resolve it in a way that allows me to keep my CISS.