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Ron Cohen wrote:
> It won't hurt the printer to use a BCI-3. I suspect you won't see
> much of a difference, if any, in the colors but even if the color
> aren't acceptable you haven't messed up anything. When you do switch
> back to the specified cartridges it will only take a page or two of
> printing to purge the BCI-3 ink from the head.
Thanks. It's just pitty i didn't ask this before i got it...so i wouldn't
open new carts...
But, then again, i guess i would ,since curiosity of the difference would be
too big...
In any case, i'll just pop those orange caps on, seal them with tape and
....voila!
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> "SleeperMan" <SleeperMan@too.sleepy> wrote in message
> news:NrLcd.4441$F6.1236073@news.siol.net...
>> Ron Cohen wrote:
>>> I was hoping the iP4000 would give results close to what I was
>>> getting with my s820 and i950. Since getting the printer last week
>>> I've done a lot of photo printing with it and the results far exceed
>>> my expectations. If I had to pick one of the three without any
>>> consideration other than which one does the best job, I'd go with
>>> the iP4000. One other thing to note is that on both the s820 and
>>> i950 (more so on the i950) I had a problem with a magenta tint to a
>>> lot of my prints. That problem went away with the iP4000. Colors
>>> are right on target. I also did some testing of my refill inks -
>>> Sensient-Formulabs from www.alotofthings.com . I printed quite a few
>>> sheets of scanned photos (studio shots of my grand daughter - can
>>> anyone say copyright violation???) on the new printer using the OEM
>>> Canon tanks that came with the printer. I then pulled the refilled
>>> tanks I use in the i950 and put them in the iP4000. I printed a lot
>>> of primer pages to purge the print head of any residual OEM ink and
>>> then printed the same photos with the refilled ink. The only way to
>>> tell which ink was used came from the notations I made in the
>>> unprinted area of the sheet. The prints were identical.
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>> I'll ask you, too...if you know...
>> Bill (from other thread) said that bci3 and bci6 colors are
>> identical - can you confirm this? If this is true, i can use my full
>> bci3 carts in ip4000, otherwise i trhow away all this money...
>> I did put bci3e black in, since it's the same, but for now i put
>> bci6 color ones in.
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>> And - quality and all - like you said---just great!
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>>> "SleeperMan" <SleeperMan@too.sleepy> wrote in message
>>> news:rEpcd.4386$F6.1222448@news.siol.net...
>>>> Ron Cohen wrote:
>>>>> That makes sense. As I recall, you are either getting or already
>>>>> have an iP4000. All I can say to that is congratulations. My new
>>>>> iP4000 is a delight. I couldn't be happier with it.
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>>>> Yep. coming tomorrow...hardly waiting... i was happy with mine
>>>> i550, even it is failed me after this time...but while it was
>>>> working, it was just fine... I already bought some printable CDR's
>>>> for testing purposes... and i can't wait to see if it's really a
>>>> difference in glossy photo prints.
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>>>> BTW...i hope i am right about bci3e NOT going into ip4000 printer?
>>>> Right? (different ink type?) Damn...
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>>>>> "SleeperMan" <SleeperMan@too.sleepy> wrote in message
>>>>> news:%JUbd.4309$F6.1208591@news.siol.net...
>>>>>> Ron Cohen wrote:
>>>>>>> What you are saying supports the comment about the oversaturated
>>>>>>> pad. The head would be absorbing waste ink.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I thought of that, too. That's why i took my i550 to a service
>>>>>> and they cleaned it up, but i just wasted the money of two
>>>>>> carts... printer behaves the same. A serviceman said that it's
>>>>>> definitely head gone...like that barriers between colors are
>>>>>> rusted or similar.
>>>>>> So, when printing, when ink flows, all is ok until i stop...
>>>>>>
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