Urgent Ip3000 has metal pipe as head carriage guide?

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Head carriage rides on a pipe type guide or like in cheap printers bent metal sheet?

If you do have this printer open cover and make a photo.

Thanks.

 

[Ron350]

Hello Smile
Sorry but I do not have a camera or I would be glad to take a picture for you.
What part of the steel bar do you need to look at?

There is an on line service manual for the iP3000-4000 that has a few pictures.
Go here http://www.timtaylor.net/tech/Canon_IP4000.htm
Then scroll down to the free manual download.

 

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On the botton where print head carriage slides left right,

there is either metal pipe type guide "Photo 1"

or like I said bent metal sheet? "Photo 2"

So how does ip3000 looks like?

 

[Ron350]

The iP3000 looks like your picture #1.

If you are asking if the iP3000 uses a steel bar or folded sheet metal, it uses a solid steel bar just like the i560, iP4000, iP5000, iP8500.

I did not know Canon used cheap bent sheet metal for the print head carriage slide, whatever it is called.

What are the two printers in the pictures?
or
What is the model # for printer #1 and printer #2?

 

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The iP3000 looks like your picture #1.

If you are asking if the iP3000 uses a steel bar or folded sheet metal, it uses a solid steel bar just like the i560, iP4000, iP5000, iP8500.

I did not know Canon used cheap bent sheet metal for the print head carriage slide, whatever it is called.

What are the two printers in the pictures?
or
What is the model # for printer #1 and printer #2?

1st is 6700D (same for 6600D)
2nd is ip1600 (same for all cheap pixma printers and 6610D 6620D those too are not so cheap)

The problem with "bent sheet metal for the print head carriage slide" is that over time if one tends to print more the ink fumes kill the lubricant and it squeaks as hell, major force is needed to move the carriage asm and repeated lubrications helps temporarily. Don't know why maybe because of the metal wear out.

 

[panos]

My MP750 looks like the first (cylindrical shaft) while my cheapo ip3300 looks like the second one (metal strip).

 

[Ron350]

Wow that is really sad that Canon would do that to save a small amount of money.

 

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The thing is if printer supports CD printing a head rise mechanism is required that's why I think canon uses normal metal bar thing in these printers. While cheap printers do not allow to print on CD's and use cheap bent metal guide.

Perhaps somebody can shed some light on the lubricant type they use, or better what I should use to lubricate it?
I found that Air compressor oil also known as vacuum oil works best because it does not evaporate and seems to provide good lubrication even when mixed with ink fumes.

The thing is if you print allot you should decide to build air suction device to suck the fumes out of the printer and extend it's lifetime. You should exhaust the fumes outside (like stick it out the window or smth.) because if you start to think about filtration it becomes too expensive.

If you don’t want to exhaust fumes outside then water filtration is the only way to go, but you must build miniaturized version of “water vacuum cleaner” or use the bubbling effect (would hate the noise like constant boiling eek