Hello Friends:
I am reading with some concern about the performance difficulties of refilled canon threes & sixes, for example Nifty's sponge saturation problem. I am also fully impressed with the energy and enginuity dedicated to scientific solutions. I applaud your collective resourcefulness. My suggestions here will be more useful to those like me with limitations on energy & enginuity; and to wonder aloud if perhaps some of the difficulties could simply be unrelated to refilling techniques and attributible instead simply to products. I regulary print everything from multiple 4x6 prints to 16 sheet posters and refill/top off the entire rack at least once a week, when not more often. Here's the kicker - I also leave for extended periods (I do intend to start using the autoprint program offered free by MIS, though) and NEVER experience the problems I've been reading about in performance. For quite some time I have been using a cartridge/ink combination that I believe may be responsible for my good fortune and feel compelled to pass it along. I must first emphasize that I have no commercial or other such motives here whatsoever. With that said, I suggest that anyone not satisfied with solutions attempted thus far might consider using AcuJet cartridges & MIS inks. The labeling on the AcuJet cartridges lists it as a product of Master Ink Co., Ltd, "Made in USA, assembled in China with imported components." I bought these on ebay from "WiredBeans" for about $2 each. The reason I to decided to try them initially was that they have a much larger reservoir than other cartridges (25%-50%) and consequently would need to be refilled less often. They refill so smothly, I am still using the first set I opened. The ink migrates over to the sponge quickly and evenly and I never need to purge (although I realize the printer does a certain amount of that on its own).
If these cartridges really do have an advantage, it's my guess (and only a guess) that somehow the density of the "sponge" medium is less than others. It is certainly smaller. I suspect this connection because the single disadvantage I find with these cartridges is that when you uncork them after refilling, they seem to bleed more than others...say three good wet dabs on a paper towell before it stops. Because the refilling defeats the ink level sensing and I am paranoid about cooking the print head; I am constantly pulling cartridges out to check the ink levels. Again - zero problems or failures.
Best Regards to everyone! Mark
I am reading with some concern about the performance difficulties of refilled canon threes & sixes, for example Nifty's sponge saturation problem. I am also fully impressed with the energy and enginuity dedicated to scientific solutions. I applaud your collective resourcefulness. My suggestions here will be more useful to those like me with limitations on energy & enginuity; and to wonder aloud if perhaps some of the difficulties could simply be unrelated to refilling techniques and attributible instead simply to products. I regulary print everything from multiple 4x6 prints to 16 sheet posters and refill/top off the entire rack at least once a week, when not more often. Here's the kicker - I also leave for extended periods (I do intend to start using the autoprint program offered free by MIS, though) and NEVER experience the problems I've been reading about in performance. For quite some time I have been using a cartridge/ink combination that I believe may be responsible for my good fortune and feel compelled to pass it along. I must first emphasize that I have no commercial or other such motives here whatsoever. With that said, I suggest that anyone not satisfied with solutions attempted thus far might consider using AcuJet cartridges & MIS inks. The labeling on the AcuJet cartridges lists it as a product of Master Ink Co., Ltd, "Made in USA, assembled in China with imported components." I bought these on ebay from "WiredBeans" for about $2 each. The reason I to decided to try them initially was that they have a much larger reservoir than other cartridges (25%-50%) and consequently would need to be refilled less often. They refill so smothly, I am still using the first set I opened. The ink migrates over to the sponge quickly and evenly and I never need to purge (although I realize the printer does a certain amount of that on its own).
If these cartridges really do have an advantage, it's my guess (and only a guess) that somehow the density of the "sponge" medium is less than others. It is certainly smaller. I suspect this connection because the single disadvantage I find with these cartridges is that when you uncork them after refilling, they seem to bleed more than others...say three good wet dabs on a paper towell before it stops. Because the refilling defeats the ink level sensing and I am paranoid about cooking the print head; I am constantly pulling cartridges out to check the ink levels. Again - zero problems or failures.
Best Regards to everyone! Mark
