Peach resetter for the Canon CLI-521/PGI-520 cartridges: impression

[pharmacist]

Yesterday I was sent a new resetter, because the first one I ordered was DOA.
The resetting is just as easy like the famous Sudhaus Redsetter. Take a look:

The small blue panel is for aligning the smaller CLI-521 cartridge towards the resetting pins. Remove this if want to reset the bigger PGI-520 cartridge. I discovered you only need a small push to reset. Pressing too hard will cause the reset to fail !!!

The last picture shows the LED turning red after a succesful reset:

Best part of all: the battery can be easily replaced:

The cover is easily removed by just pulling it a bit. There are now screws and the lid is just snapped into the housing:

Just pull out the small circuit board and you can replace the battery:

 

[refilldude]

can i ask what company sells this and for how much/....

 

[zxcvbnm114]

can i ask what company sells this and for how much/....

I'm guessing its from this thread.
http://www.nifty-stuff.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4844&p=2
But I dont' know for sure, he may have just meant he had ordered on in general.

I have to say if I had a peach that colour I would not eat it.

 

[IanYY]

... if I had a peach that colour ...

I think Peach are the manufacturers, and their resetters are being sold by
Peach - a Swiss company with a UK web site,
TintenMarkt and some other German sites, and
Ebay (for example), shipping from Germany.

@pharmacist
The small bit of plastic near the contacts looks like an on-off switch. Is this right?

Ian

 

[pharmacist]

Hi Ian, the small bit of plastic is indeed the on-off switch, as soon as the cartridge is pushed into the resetter it will automatically trigger this nodge and the resetter is switched on.

The advantage of this resetter is the ease to exchange the battery when it runs out.

Price in Europe: I paid 14.90 at www.tintenalarm.de + shipping costs (This is the company selling the excellent pigment text black in for Canon PGI-520/PGI-5Bk/BCI-3eBK: KMP pigment ink).

 

[JoePineapples]

Great Pictures .. does the unit give an acknowledgment that the cart was successfully reset ?

I have some empty BCi-321 if you could try to reset them please

Joe

 

[pharmacist]

Hi JoePineapples,

see picture nr. 4: a successfull reset will light up the LED red persistently.

 

[qwertydude]

Any news on a resetter for cli-221's? It's been a long time coming, and a couple printer "generations" have passed ie ip4600 to ip4700. But I suppose if a resetter does become available it'll soon be time for canon to shrink cartridges yet again and maybe even put rfid chips in the carts a la lexmark. I shudder at the thought.

 

[JoePineapples]

For the Cli-221

RJet-Tek does them

http://www.rjettek.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/1100

74USD not cheap