Canon iP6600D

[Olin K. McDaniel]

A friend is looking to do some photo printing similar to what I've
been doing for 3+ years with my Canon i950, and we've been looking at
choices available now. We found a good buy locally on the iP6600D
model, which uses 6 colors (same as my i950, but labeled as if they
are part of an 8 color set). The main criteria that must be met, is
that these must be refillable, as I do with the i950 cartridges. From
what we can learn, Canon has now included chips in these new
cartridges to prevent such refilling. Also, from what we've read, it
was expected that someone would quickly come up with a method of
defeating this "chipping", like has been done for years on the Epson
printers. Does anyone out there know if this step has been
accomplished yet?

No reply needed from the jerk, shill, or whatever - "mousecrap".

Thanks for all others.

Olin

 

[Shooter]

Not yet, no resetters either so if you refill you lose things like level
checks both auto and manual, I am not sure if the correct ink for CLI carts
is available. I have had the ip6600d since it first came into the UK and
all I cane say is the printer is a super photo printer, I use mine with my
10mp pics and the 5x7 photos are staggering with Epson glossy paper, the
down side is the carts are at a silly price, I pay coppers over £7 each.

 

[Burt]

A friend is looking to do some photo printing similar to what I've
been doing for 3+ years with my Canon i950, and we've been looking at
choices available now. We found a good buy locally on the iP6600D
model, which uses 6 colors (same as my i950, but labeled as if they
are part of an 8 color set). The main criteria that must be met, is
that these must be refillable, as I do with the i950 cartridges. From
what we can learn, Canon has now included chips in these new
cartridges to prevent such refilling. Also, from what we've read, it
was expected that someone would quickly come up with a method of
defeating this "chipping", like has been done for years on the Epson
printers. Does anyone out there know if this step has been
accomplished yet?

No reply needed from the jerk, shill, or whatever - "mousecrap".

Thanks for all others.

Olin

not yet, unfortunately. The carts can be refilled just the same as your
bci-6 carts but you will then lose the ink monitoring and have to check ink
levels visually.

 

[Burt]

Not yet, no resetters either so if you refill you lose things like level
checks both auto and manual, I am not sure if the correct ink for CLI
carts is available. I have had the ip6600d since it first came into the
UK and all I cane say is the printer is a super photo printer, I use mine
with my 10mp pics and the 5x7 photos are staggering with Epson glossy
paper, the down side is the carts are at a silly price, I pay coppers over
£7 each.

MIS and Hobbicolors have ink for the newer canon printers. I don't know
about any others.

 

[measekite]

A friend is looking to do some photo printing similar to what I've
been doing for 3+ years with my Canon i950, and we've been looking at
choices available now. We found a good buy locally on the iP6600D
model, which uses 6 colors (same as my i950, but labeled as if they
are part of an 8 color set). The main criteria that must be met, is
that these must be refillable,

That is no criteria at all. I am sure that the Canon IP4300 can produce
and almost all photographs output that is better than the 6 color
printer and uses ChromoLife 100 Canon ink that will provide better fade
resistance.

as I do with the i950 cartridges. From
what we can learn, Canon has now included chips in these new
cartridges to prevent such refilling.

Canon is protecting your printer from clogging

Also, from what we've read, it
was expected that someone would quickly come up with a method of
defeating this "chipping", like has been done for years on the Epson
printers. Does anyone out there know if this step has been
accomplished yet?

Canon will keep changing the firmware so it will not be economical to do it.

 

[measekite]

Not yet, no resetters either so if you refill you lose things like level
checks both auto and manual,

high quality results and better fade resistance of the new inks.

I am not sure if the correct ink for CLI carts
is available.

It is not.

 

[Edwin Pawlowski]

the down side is the carts are at a silly price, I pay coppers over £7
each.

Same price that we pay in the US.

 

[Olin K. McDaniel]

That is no criteria at all. I am sure that the Canon IP4300 can produce
and almost all photographs output that is better than the 6 color
printer and uses ChromoLife 100 Canon ink that will provide better fade
resistance.


Canon is protecting your printer from clogging

Canon will keep changing the firmware so it will not be economical to do it.

Moosecrap

Can't you comprehend plain English, I stated plainly I did NOT want
nor would I appreciate any comment from you!!! Get with it, jerk!

Olin

 

[Shooter]

not yet, unfortunately. The carts can be refilled just the same as your
bci-6 carts but you will then lose the ink monitoring and have to check
ink levels visually.

Not quite sure how you would check the levels visually without taking out
the cart, unless you have another way to check levels, so each time you
remove and replace a cart for checking you would use more ink as the set
initializes the printer multiply that by six and that's quite an amount
wasted ink, Maybe I have missed something and there is another way to check
the ink level.

 

[Shooter]

Moosecrap

Can't you comprehend plain English, I stated plainly I did NOT want
nor would I appreciate any comment from you!!! Get with it, jerk!

Olin

I have to agree with him with regard to clogging, I have used over twenty
carts and not a single clean, OK I do run a nozzle check every couple of
weeks. I also run an Epson R300 now with OEM ink and if left more than a
couple of days it requires a clean, If you compare the Epson inks against
the Canon, the Canon wins hands down for not clogging. I would agree hands
down with you regarding the Troll but every now and and then he makes a
remark that could be worth a listen, pitty he has no credibility. This Canon
printer has been in the UK for near to a year so why do you think that no
one has come up with a chip, perhaps it's got something to do with the Epson
court proceedings against third party cart manufactures.

 

[Burt]

Not quite sure how you would check the levels visually without taking out
the cart, unless you have another way to check levels, so each time you
remove and replace a cart for checking you would use more ink as the set
initializes the printer multiply that by six and that's quite an amount
wasted ink, Maybe I have missed something and there is another way to
check the ink level.

Shooter - unless the new printers behave differently from my ip5000 and
i960, it is my experience that the printer runs a cleaning routine after a
cart triggers the low or empty warning and is replaced, but not when a cart
that has not registered empty is removed and replaced. Even if these
printers do run a cleaning after removing and checking the ink level,
checking all six levels at the same time will not trigger six cleanings but
only one. Hardly matters when a refill costs about $1. If a few extra
cleanings are the price to pay for refilling af $1 instead of $11 to $14
dollars a pop it is still a no-brainer! BTW, there is an interesting issue
with the amount of ink wasted in cleaning cycles. If one of the six carts
in my i960 registers low or empty and I replace it the cleaning routine
sucks ink from all six carts. If you replace them one at a time when they
show empty you subject every cart to the cleaning routine. That is why I
refill all the carts or replace all of them with refilled spares any time
one cart shows the low warning.

You can actually check the cart levels superficially when you lift the cover
and the head comes to the middle of the carriage. If any of them is too low
to see the ink level (a bright flashlight helps) you can then investigate
further.

 

[measekite]

Moosecrap

Can't you comprehend plain English, I stated plainly I did NOT want
nor would I appreciate any comment from you!!! Get with it, !

Olin
jerk

Mirror Mirror on Da Wall

hoose da farist on da wall

It aint U

 

[measekite]

Not quite sure how you would check the levels visually without taking out
the cart, unless you have another way to check levels, so each time you
remove and replace a cart for checking you would use more ink as the set
initializes the printer multiply that by six and that's quite an amount
wasted ink, Maybe I have missed something and there is another way to check
the ink level.

That is really not a bid deal since you are using waste ink to begin with.

 

[measekite]

Now Hear This

I have to agree with him with regard to clogging, I have used over twenty
carts and not a single clean, OK I do run a nozzle check every couple of
weeks.

In two years I have never even run a nozzle check

I also run an Epson R300 now with OEM ink and if left more than a
couple of days it requires a clean, If you compare the Epson inks against
the Canon, the Canon wins hands down for not clogging. I would agree hands
down with you regarding the Troll but every now and and then he makes a
remark that could be worth a listen, pitty he has no credibility. This Canon
printer has been in the UK for near to a year so why do you think that no
one has come up with a chip, perhaps it's got something to do with the Epson
court proceedings against third party cart manufactures.

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