Returning to OEM inks - best practices?

[Pipur]

Haven't managed to find good info on this, maybe some of you can point me in the right direction?

What's the best practice if I want to go all OEM again?

What can I expect - how long before the ink lines have OEM ink only, and what's the best and least wasteful way to get there?

Or, which cleaning option(s) would be the best in order to evacuate any old ink from the ink lines (and not waste too much of the new OEM ink)?

I'll be making my own profiles.

Pixma Pro-1.

TIA!

 

[The Hat]

Great to hear you want to use OEM ink again, but sorry there are no shortcuts, each of the methods you describe are wasteful and will fill your waste ink cartridge unnecessary.

The most obvious way is to print out the ink on paper, but there is about 30 ml of each colour ink in your system and that is a lot of ink, so try printing something for the local schools or clubs for free. (About 3000 copies)

Start with a test image and store that print, then once a week print the same image again and keep doing this till you can see the colour change in your output, this method will take a long time, but you get to print lots and lots of stuff..

Not all the colours will get used at the same rate..

If you want to flush out the old ink in one foul swoop, then run a system clean and you’ll then have all OEM ink installed in the CISS lines and you’ll be ready to print once again.. (About 400 ml...)

 

[Pipur]

Wow. That's really useful information - and 30ml in each lane is truly a lot.

But since I've kind of made up my mind, and 3000 prints are a lot too, there's no golden road here I guess.

Seems I just have to accept the tragedy of wasting that much ink. Do or (/and) die I guess .

Unless there's another option regarding flushes of course? But you seem pretty certain

Big thanks, really. Awesome to be exact!

/p

 

[stratman]

try printing something for the local schools or clubs for free. (About 3000 copies)

Great idea! Beats wasting x13 more ink - OEM ink! - doing a system clean. Good for your community and your karma.

 

[Pipur]

Dunno if anyone I know of would be interested but it's a great idea.

I'll force myself to have a look around.

Cheers.

 

[The Hat]

@Pipur, Check and see if your printer can enter Service Mode, and if it can then waste ink won’t be a problem anymore, because you can reset the waste ink counter and fit a Printer Potty..
Problem solved...

 

[Pipur]

@Pipur, Check and see if your printer can enter Service Mode, and if it can then waste ink won’t be a problem anymore, because you can reset the waste ink counter and fit a Printer Potty..
Problem solved...

Much due to your remark, I finally took the steps to have a look at this Service Mode thing.

It took a while to find instructions explicitly for the Pro-1, but eventually I did. I had since long located and downloaded the Service Mode Tool v3.4, so I was pretty excited (and somewhat scared) since I'd kind of decided that an inability to manage an installation of a potty would force me to sell the printer.

And voila! Despite that I'd updated the firmware (before I knew better) to 2.10 the printer actually entered Service Mode! And I was also able to connect with the software!!

I printed the EEPROM stuff, closed the program, and restarted the printer.

Does this truly indicate that I'll be able to reset the ink absorber counter and install a potty??

Also - where in the EEPROM printout can I see how much of the ink absorber (or "waste ink tank"?) is used?

 

[Artur5]

I don't own a Pro1 but in all the Canons where I was able to enter service mode, the waste ink pad counter is in the first line ot the EEPROM printout.
For instance, the first line of the printout in my current IP3000 is:
"IP=3000 V1.09 IF (USB1=1) D=020.8 ST=2005/02/02-21:10 "
"D" is the waste pad counter. When it reaches 100.0 then the printer will stop working until it's reset to cero. You're lucky, I wish I could do likewise with my Pro10s !
That said, maybe the Pro1 EEPROM page is totally different because this one is a very special machine.

 

[The Hat]

Try this.... And good luck...