i850 equivalent

[fnovau]

I've been using a canon i850 for more than 2 years without problems and
I have refilled carts with Mis Associates ink and everything ok . Some
months ago my paralel port dissapeared and printer apparently died and
stop printing. After a lot of fighting against my Xp soft I decided to
change to USB and everything begun to run again, but my joy lasted not
very much. I sent my printer to Canon service and they suggested to
buy another printer. Now I should like to buy if it's possible an
equivalent one as my old i850 -I mean with the same type of carts and
also the same printhead. Can someone help me? Any hint?
Thanks in advanced
-Francesc

 

[zakezuke]

I've been using a canon i850 for more than 2 years without problems and
I have refilled carts with Mis Associates ink and everything ok . Some
months ago my paralel port dissapeared and printer apparently died and
stop printing. After a lot of fighting against my Xp soft I decided to
change to USB and everything begun to run again, but my joy lasted not
very much. I sent my printer to Canon service and they suggested to
buy another printer. Now I should like to buy if it's possible an
equivalent one as my old i850 -I mean with the same type of carts and
also the same printhead. Can someone help me? Any hint?

QY6-042-000 was also used in the ip3000, a printer that hasn't been in
mainstream production for about a year. The i560, i850, IP3000 MP700
and MP730 printers also employed the use of this head as well. There
are other printers above the i560 which willl use bci-6 inks but not
the head, up until the ip4200 which uses other ink in a slightly
different cartridge with a chip.

 

[bmoag]

Marketing blather aside Canon has not really reformulated its inks and
drivers for the majority of its printers. Cartridge design is as much a
marketing as an engineering decision because selling ink is more profitable
than selling printers. However if the inks are the same and the software
drivers are the same, which is the case for a large swath of several
generations of Canon printers no matter how the driver interface is
presented or how the printers are boxed, the printing technology and quality
are fundamentally the same.
Sic semper Canon marketing practices (Canon is not the only company to wrap
a bow around a pig and call it a new and improved duck).
All this does you no good if you have a large supply of a particular ink
cartridge type and can find no printer to use them with. You can probably
still find those "new and improved" Pixma printers listed on the Canon i850
cartridge boxes if you search the web.

 

[kahalas]

I've been using a canon i850 for more than 2 years without problems and
I have refilled carts with Mis Associates ink and everything ok . Some
months ago my paralel port dissapeared and printer apparently died and
stop printing. After a lot of fighting against my Xp soft I decided to
change to USB and everything begun to run again, but my joy lasted not
very much. I sent my printer to Canon service and they suggested to
buy another printer. Now I should like to buy if it's possible an
equivalent one as my old i850 -I mean with the same type of carts and
also the same printhead. Can someone help me? Any hint?
Thanks in advanced
-Francesc

Be carefull. If you get a new printer as Canon suggests, it may have
chipped cartridges, which may make refilling more expensive. I'd do
everything in my power to get the old i850 up and running again. You
didn't say what was wrong with it, but it could be a software problem.
Might try uninstalling and reinstalling the software.

SLK

 

[Michael Grey]

I have a printhead if needed.

Be carefull. If you get a new printer as Canon suggests, it may have
chipped cartridges, which may make refilling more expensive. I'd do
everything in my power to get the old i850 up and running again. You
didn't say what was wrong with it, but it could be a software problem.
Might try uninstalling and reinstalling the software.

SLK

 

[fnovau]

Be carefull. If you get a new printer as Canon suggests, it may have
chipped cartridges, which may make refilling more expensive. I'd do
everything in my power to get the old i850 up and running again. You
didn't say what was wrong with it, but it could be a software problem.
Might try uninstalling and reinstalling the software.

SLK

I fully agree with you. I thought it was a software problem but Canon
told me the printer was dead. It was a pity because I still have 2
original BCI-3eBK carts and even a new printhead into its original
package¡¡
-Francesc

 

[zakezuke]

I fully agree with you. I thought it was a software problem but Canon
told me the printer was dead. It was a pity because I still have 2
original BCI-3eBK carts and even a new printhead into its original
package¡¡
-Francesc

Well, you can choose to either

1) Sell off the printheads, buy into a new canon
2) take a chance on an i850/ip3000 with a head issue.
3) e-bay a nice ip3000 / i860 for $100 to $120 and put the replacement
head to good use if needed.

 

[Olin K. McDaniel]

QY6-042-000 was also used in the ip3000, a printer that hasn't been in
mainstream production for about a year. The i560, i850, IP3000 MP700
and MP730 printers also employed the use of this head as well. There
are other printers above the i560 which willl use bci-6 inks but not
the head, up until the ip4200 which uses other ink in a slightly
different cartridge with a chip.

Sorry if this is irrelevant or useless, but I just bought a new print
head for my 3 year old i950, which uses the 6 cartridge system of the
BCI-6 series. This replacement print head is type QY6-0043-000. I
wonder if it is the same as the one quoted above, or different. And I
have used MIS inks throughout the life of the printer, and after
several thousand full page color photo prints, I decided to keep on
with this success rather than trying to find another model equally
satisfying.

Olin McDaniel

 

[zakezuke]

Sorry if this is irrelevant or useless, but I just bought a new print
head for my 3 year old i950, which uses the 6 cartridge system of the
BCI-6 series. This replacement print head is type QY6-0043-000. I
wonder if it is the same as the one quoted above, or different. And I
have used MIS inks throughout the life of the printer, and after
several thousand full page color photo prints, I decided to keep on
with this success rather than trying to find another model equally
satisfying.

Nah, qy6-0042 is of the 4 cartridge style, not even a dye black. The
qy6-0043 was limited to the i950/i960/i965 IIRC, and was "NOT" used on
the ip6000. The model numbers are similar, but that's about it.