But if you lay them out side by side, the difference in quality is obvious. Here's the kicker, You might not even notice it if you didnt' compare them. Both pictures look noticably different and less sharp and colors were not as vivid. Then used HP Photopaper in the Canon printer and vice versa. I personally thought the Canon photo was just a tad bit better.but not by much. Printed the sample photo using Canon printer next. Printed sample photo, I TOOK in the store, from HP printer using HP ink and Hp photo paper. My friends who work at Best Buy (yes, I know, hardly the experts on the subject) tell me that during their training in the photo department, the manufacturer reps and their Best Buy Trainers drum into their heads to use ONLY each manufacturers branded product to show off demos. Canon calibrates their printers and ink to print the best ONLY on Canon photo paper. The sad truth is, all these manufacturers design and optimize their printers to run on their "other" products. Then I swtiched from the Kodak brand "generic" glossy paper and used Canon's "glossy paper (both 4圆) and saw a huge improvement in quality as well. (Thank you POTN for pointing out this trick)Īfter running the clean head application once per instructions, all the print outs came out perfect. I had to take out the print head, soak it in rubbing alcohol for a day to drain out the Staples ink, let it air dry for another day, then put it back in while replacing all the ink w/ OEM Canon ink. That's what I get for buying a chipped photo printer.Īll I know is my print head on my ip5000 clogged up within a month of using Staples brand "OEM Quality" ink. The ip4200 shares tanks with the ip6700d, meaning that I am completely hosed. I haven't even attempted to refill my ink tanks for my ip6700d after reading that. (May I reccomend the IP4000, or the IP5000, neither of which have the chipped ink bottles). Once the "I admit I refill my ink" choice has been selected, there is no way to return to the "good graces" of their warrantee.) In plain english, the consequences of a disabled visual ink monitoring system are that you will not receive warning when your ink runs low (even though the hardware is present to do so), and that your print heads and ink plumbing will dry up into a crusty sad little crisp, squeak their last little squeak, and die. (Or, rather, if you've chosen choice the second, being spitefully punitive you for doing so. Without a good reason, other than scaring you into buying cannon ink. The visual ink-monitoring system is DISABLED. The warrantee is voided, and this fact is written into the flash-rom of the printer, thus barring you from claiming service under warrantee period, even if the failure is unrelated.Ģ.
I achieved approximately 420 pages in a refilled "300-page" pigment black cartridge.ĬHOICE THE SECOND: (The insulting option):Ĭonceed that you are refilling your ink tanks, with the following consequences:ġ. When this occurs, the really nasty stuff starts happening:ĬHOICE THE FIRST: (Cannon's preferred choice): Admit that you've refilled your ink cartridge, remove it, and place a new cannon certified cannon manufactured ink cartridge in it. The problem comes in when the printer realizes it's been using the same chip for many more prints than any single ink tank can provide. Obviously there are ways around the chip both refilling the first party tanks and placing the chip on a third party tank are being implemented. A friend with a different manufacture of photo printer had their head go bad within a year using only first party inks. The print head clogged after around three years, and I replaced it. That's literally one third of the price of an OEM tank and very similar quality. Using $4 a pop third party ink tanks, I couldn't notice a difference between an identical print from the included canon tanks. My counter argument is that I owned a canon s900 once upon a time. There is an argument to be made that OEM ink tanks will never suffer from quality issues. "Use third party inks and your printer will explode and injure you! Print quality will suffer if you don't use our ink that costs one hundred times more than the similar volume of gasoline! Only we (canon/epson/whoever) are able to formulate inks that don't immediately set fire to your prints!" I don't know about you, but I don't exactly buy into the printer manufacturer's scare tactics when it comes to third party inks.
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Let this be a warning to all of you who are in the market for a photo printer some of the higher end canon ip series printers use tanks with microchips.