It is my understand that NON OEM can damage the printing heads, is this true? Has anybody had this problem after prolonged use?
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I've been using these cartridges for years. I think I've ordered them three times. they've always works fine.
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I have used them for years, and I do a lot of printing. A month ago, I cleaned the printer head for the first time in five years. I highly recommend them.
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I personally don't recommend these as my printer would not recognize the cartridges and they leaked all over the place! Ended up having to buy a new printer.
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I have not had any problems with the non-Canon ink. Did you return the printer to Canon? If you have, did you tell them you used Costco ink. If so you bit the big one. You just gave them a out in repairing the printer. The info you got with the printer states Use only Canon ink. From what I understand most printer ink is used from the same company. Print heads can go south on any printer. The cost of the repair will be more then a new printer. Lots of luck, Plus I have used Costco refills ink without any problem
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Same happend to me this ink clogged my print heads, only way to fix it you need to take the print head s apart and clean them with the right products, look in youtube I believe there is a link about how to repair. I just went and bought another printer
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I understand your concern, that was my concern when I bought these almost 2 years ago. These are fantastic! I have not had any issues with clogged heads or printing quality issues. I print here and there 10-15 pages/week average. I have refilled 2 of the color cartridges but the amount of ink the cartridge hold will last a very long time. Like I said in my first review I think the color quality is better than OEM Epson inks. Hope this helped, plus if you do have any questions Ink Owl is very quick to offer help to resolve the issue.
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I buy mine from 4inkjets. They guarantee their cartridges to work and I've never had a problem with anything I've bought from them over the years. They are way less expensive than the OEM cartridges.
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You can also go through the printer's maintenance and try have the printer perform a print head cleaning as well. I was having some major problems with mine too (it just turned out that I was using cheap ink).
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I would replace the printheads ... because this is a high volume - heavy duty printer, and it will be much cheaper than buying a comparable new one
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Mine came in a generic box, don't think it was OEM, created problems with the printer so I bought the very expensive OEM one. Same goes with cartridges, I buy OEM only.
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Yes, the ink does clog, and no number of deep cleaning utilities will clear it up. The clogs ruined the printhead on my 901 before one cartridge was fully used. I waited a month for the replacement printhead. I have attempted to order a second printhead to hold in inventory, but Lexmark now refuses to sell the printheads. I was given no explanation and no hope that another replacement printhead part 14N1339(series 100) will ever be available for sale. Yet, they continue to sell these things.
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you didn't do anything wrong. I had the same problem and the company would not do anything about them because it was past so many days! Everywhere else I ordered the cartridges from were good up to a year if there was a problem. Not this company. some of my were not recognized by the printer, so they weren't any good to me. Other ones leaked in the bag. I've been trying to use them up, but I have to clean the heads alot too. These are garbage and amazon should stopselling them.
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I had same exact problem, Office Max told me printer heads need cleaned. You have to take it semi apart to pull out heads.. Very frustrating..
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I have been using them in my Epson 300 printer for over a year with little problem. My printer is basically not happy with non-Epson cartridges, but I have had no printing problems, though I rarely use color. I work from home, so my ink supply is important to me and this product worked.
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I had to remove my print head because my ink has run out and died by spraying it down with alcohol. I Have had no problem with mine working after that
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I had a similar problem with my Kodak ESP 6150. My printer was still printing, but the print quality was very poor. Replacing the print head did solve the problem, but within less than a year the problem came back. I found the print heads both on Amazon and ebay. They say that this problem occurs when you use remanufactured ink cartridges. I was using original Kodak ink cartridges and still had this problem. I would not recommend this printer for anyone, less than two years old and the print heads jammed and could not be fixed. Too many problems.
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I'm not sure about your particular error message. My problem was that the printer went through all of its usual motions, but there was no ink coming out of the print head (even with new ink cartridges installed). I did buy Printhead Cleaner Original, did a few cleaning cycles (the instructions say to do one - I did three) just to make sure there was no more dried up ink in the printhead, and after a few nozzle cleanings the printer works like brand new - the cleaner did work really well in my situation. For the price it couldn't hurt to try it, since if your printer is anything like mine was, there are few replacement parts to be found and nobody around cleans printers anymore. Hope that helps! I'm not sure about your particular error message. My problem was that the printer went through all of its usual motions, but there was no ink coming out of the print head (even with new ink cartridges installed). I did buy Printhead Cleaner Original, did a few cleaning cycles (the instructions say to do one - I did three) just to make sure there was no more dried up ink in the printhead, and after a few nozzle cleanings the printer works like brand new - the cleaner did work really well in my situation. For the price it couldn't hurt to try it, since if your printer is anything like mine... » Read More I'm not sure about your particular error message. My problem was that the printer went through all of its usual motions, but there was no ink coming out of the print head (even with new ink cartridges installed). I did buy Printhead Cleaner Original, did a few cleaning cycles (the instructions say to do one - I did three) just to make sure there was no more dried up ink in the printhead, and after a few nozzle cleanings the printer works like brand new - the cleaner did work really well in my situation. For the price it couldn't hurt to try it, since if your printer is anything like mine was, there are few replacement parts to be found and nobody around cleans printers anymore. Hope that helps! « Show Less
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We've been using ours for several months now. We're not "power printers" by any means but we've probably printed 3 reams of paper with mixed formats from screen prints of web pages to documents and everything in between. I will say that being re-manufactured, it did have a screw that was missing on one side that I believe was removed to fill the cartridge, which when looking at the OEM cartridge, the screw secured a clip and spring and had a sticker over the screw. I ended up removing the screw from the OEM cartridge to secure it on the replacement. It has worked fine with no issues so far other than that though. We've been using ours for several months now. We're not "power printers" by any means but we've probably printed 3 reams of paper with mixed formats from screen prints of web pages to documents and everything in between. I will say that being re-manufactured, it did have a screw that was missing on one side that I believe was removed to fill the cartridge, which when looking at the OEM cartridge, the screw secured a clip and spring and had a sticker over the screw. I ended up removing the screw from the OEM cartridge to secure it on the replacement. It has worked fine with no... » Read More We've been using ours for several months now. We're not "power printers" by any means but we've probably printed 3 reams of paper with mixed formats from screen prints of web pages to documents and everything in between. I will say that being re-manufactured, it did have a screw that was missing on one side that I believe was removed to fill the cartridge, which when looking at the OEM cartridge, the screw secured a clip and spring and had a sticker over the screw. I ended up removing the screw from the OEM cartridge to secure it on the replacement. It has worked fine with no issues so far other than that though. « Show Less
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Yeah - Did the cartridges and the print head (cost $40 on eBay). Already had tried cleaning the old head in case it was just a clog.