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| Thread ID: 124235 | 2012-04-14 02:18:00 | Ink cartridge refilling | Robin S_ (86) | Press F1 |
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| 1269941 | 2012-04-16 00:34:00 | Yes that is what I found out with Cartridge World ink. If you don't use your printer very often the print heads in the cartridge become blocked. With the Canon inks that doesn't happen. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1269942 | 2012-04-16 11:15:00 | I have a customer who loves their continuous ink system, but as has been pointed out, they are a pain to get set up correctly & you can never move them or stop printing for a week. | Greven (91) | ||
| 1269943 | 2012-04-16 11:20:00 | More helpful info - thanks. Paul and Dugi - I had read your comments about the Melco system in a thread of several years ago, and they, together with some other negative comments about CISS that I have seen, were the reason I don't want to go that way. Dugi and Trev - can you define "frequently" and "very often" as used in your comments? The 'ink drying out' phenomenon for some products is a tendency I have read about and precisely what I want to avoid. I have never experienced it with Calidad inks (or Canons). | Robin S_ (86) | ||
| 1269944 | 2012-04-16 12:14:00 | I go through phases, I might print a lot for a week or so then nothing for a couple of months. The cheap G&G branded cartridges I have been buying don't work well that way which is why I got a laser. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1269945 | 2012-04-16 22:01:00 | My printing can be from daily to once a month. Never less often than monthly. The Melco cyan was seriously messed up and it was a constant battle to get it clear for any and every print run. Meanwhile the black tended to run too much at times and was dripping onto sheets during printing. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1269946 | 2012-04-16 22:08:00 | Sometimes it is up too 3 months or more between prints and I found that the Cartridge World cartridges became blocked where as the Canon ones always work fine although my Canon printer goes through a cleaning period before it prints for several minutes. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1269947 | 2012-04-18 13:11:00 | Thanks again - the non-use intervals that give rise to problems are helpful. I use 1 printer at a time (in a home situation, not a lot of printing involved) but have 2 canon iP4000s which I switch every 2 months to avoid ink blockages and have not had any flow problems (using Canon and Calidad inks). It would seem that if I can no longer get Calidad I would have to swap them more frequently if I need to change to Cartridge World carts. I would still be interested in hearing from anyone else who has had good performances from other brands of ink. |
Robin S_ (86) | ||
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