Good day sir, can you please send me the information on how to properly replace the print head on the Canon Pro-100? I don't want to cause an issue with my new print head. Thank you
I'm using canon pro 100. I have learned a lot about my printer from your videos and still if i face any issue go through your videos. Thank you and keep it up.
I was trying to find a video on how to run the cleaning program on my Canon Pixma Pro 100. When I type in RUclips results I get about 11 of your videos and no one else. This video has nothing to do with the actual cleaning cycle on a Canon Pro 100 can you point me in the right direction so I don't have to watch every video? Thank you so much... appreciate all your work 🙏
I was getting lines through my black, did two 13x19 prints that were ruined. Put in a full tank and still lines, so that's four 13x19 inch prints wasted. I tried to milk a genuine black tank too hard. Tragic that such tiny ink tanks are used on such large printer. On my deathbed I'll still be regretting all that wasted ink and paper :(
I bought my printer about 3 years ago. The first few months I made probably about 20. 4x6 prints and probably four 13x19s.. for some reason my friends are loves to eat up ink as I can put a brand new pack of eight individual inks. After making one large 13 by 19 and then call me back a week later at least two or three of them will be empty. So the average cost of a print for me is close to 70.00 for one print
Jose Rodriguez Well then you don't need to worry about having it on because it's not at all audible. And I don't think I can hear any filtering artefacts. Maybe whatever filtering you're doing you could actually back it off a bit, not so we can hear the ac but just so the filtering doesn't inadvertently effect the voice.
So maybe this is addressed somewhere else, but I don't see any mention of it. What about doing timed small cleaning cycles to reset the clock? Does that work? Of course you're still using ink but it can be on your own terms. Just curious. I think you essentially said so around the 7:00 mark.
Whatever I said in the past, we NOW know a bit more and nothing is going to defeat this built in maintenance system. What is a Timed Small Cleaning Cycle anyway???? One you generate yourself? There are no differences between either the ones you might trigger manually or the Auto ones. There is NO way to disable this. Believe me!!!
Greets Jose! I have an observation which I have not seen mention of yet but, knowing your extensive knowledge, you may have already dealt with it somewhere - in some context... After practically every print I carry out on my Canon PRO-100S the unit runs some form of maintenance or cleaning cycle. I can hear it whirring away and moving parts about. I don't know what it is doing but I am concerned it could be draining my expensive carts with cleaning cycles. I only print out graphic designs for clients - mostly block colours and text - so the photo paper is never being completely covered with ink (like a photograph using the whole paper) and there is plenty of white space in the finished results. Do you have any idea what it is doing and, if it IS detrimental to my ink supplies, is there a setting I should be changing somewhere to turn this off? Thanks in advance! Mark (from MarkMyInk)
Yes that is the printer performing at Purge pad cleaning. The Purge pad is where the printhead will rest when it's not being used and they must be kept clean so after each print job it performs a bit of a vacuum cleaning of that area nothing to worry about it is not a cleaning cycle
JHU is great. Grew up in Bmore. Now, I'm an amateur. I've been printing a lot lately, covid free time, but generally I may print photos once every 6 months or more. (with my covid free time I've been printing about 5 hours a day but that's to catch up on my editing). I have been tuning my canon Pro 100 printer off when I'm not using it, overnight during my covid free time. Are you saying I should leave the printer on 24/7 even in times where I do not use it for months at a time?
Jose, in the video you have what appears to be all your Pro-1000 cartridges lined up in front of the printer. Do you not keep them installed in the printer or is this an additional set? Just wondering.
Then we would complain when they clog due to insufficient use. It's human nature to want full control. When you really think about it the auto cleaning as annoying as they seem, actually insure a consistently cleared printer. I never even need to run a nozzle check an important print job. I better do on an epson or I might find out too late that it had a clog.
Hey Jose... I recently purchased a Canon 8750 and after delivery and setting up I discovered You and your Channel. I was so intrigued by your videos I took the 8754 back to the store and told them it was FAULTY.......It was only 3 weeks old.......And guess what?......I purchased a PRO 100. Now your videos mean something to me..HaHa....I also purchased a Filling Kit and Empty Carts from Octoinkjet here in the UK....It now means I have a lot of backtrackin' to do with your Vids.......Great work Jose and also a very_very informative video series.....I am now HOOKED....Regards.
I think I found a Canon 1000 I'm going to buy off of eBay. What about the carts I'm assuming they're refillable with Precision colors ink? do I have to drill holes in them how do I modify the carts or do I have to buy the card from you I'd like to know all the stuff before I purchased the printer thank you Jose.
Jose Rodriguez Yeah I think I'm going to probably stick with the Pro 1000 but I'm also looking at the Epson are 3800 I'm exploring my possibilities with Epson too.
Jose Rodriguez I watched your videos that you told me to watch I don't see a whole lot of difference between the pro-100 in the Pro 1000 it doesn't seem like it's worth another $900. I'm actually going to buy the Epson p5000. That is a badass printer.
You are paying for a huge increase in techno th and features absent from the PRO100. Today's I inter have simply wok st reach their maximum quality output levels so any differences observed will be minimal!
Hola Jose, How often do I have to make a print no matter how small/big it is in order to maintain the printer working properly and not causing future damage to it?
It highly depends on the printer and your relative humidity. Some people will run a small print and nozzle check daily. Some only need to do it once or twice a week. There is no distinct answer. As often as you can won't hurt. But not once a month!
Can you explain the 480 minute cleaning cycle and how that comes into play? If the cleaning cycle occurs every 120 minutes, anyway, is the 480 hour cleaning cycle a more thorough cleaning cycle?
Well if you don't use your printer for 480 hours or 20 days or more since the last triggered cleaning cycle, then it will run a large cleaning cycle. The timer begins at the point when any cleaning cycle is performed or triggered. You can then print without cleaning cycles triggered until the 120 hour period is passed. For the 480 hour one to be triggered you would have to not used your printer for at least 20 days straight or more. Then when you send a print job it will run the big cleaning cycle and the clock begins to.count again.
I have no idea what you are talking about. I don't keep my printer on if not using. I print and then turn printer off. Please explain the best way to not waste ink... with cleaning's cycles. I've never had a clogged nozzle, and do not print regularly. But I do need to purchase ink, and feel like I don't print that much, and perhaps some is wasted on cleaning. But not sure.
Still the same. Printing does not stop the timed schedule cleaning cycles. So you might as well print so you actually use more ink for printing photos than for scheduled maintenance.
What I'm seeing Jose between the Pro 1000 and the Pro 1 the pro one has an extra Gray called dark grey. I'm I'm sure the pro one would be a better black and white printer than the Pro 1000 due to that extra Gray. I'm now stuck in my decision whether I want the 1004 the pro one the only thing I don't like about the pro one it only prints 13 x 19 prints.
Theoretically regular printing will not use ALL the available nozzle 100% of the time. So a times cleaning cycle will.inside that the pro tee is always ready to produce perfect prints. If I don't check my Epson printer nozzles before an important print, I always end up having to run a nozzle check which shows clogs, followed by a cleaning cycle and another nozzle check and finally if I am lucky reprinting my job.
From a personal point of view this isn't as bad news as it might seem. Sure, it means I'm going to have to endure up to 73 wasteful cleaning cycles per year but also I now don't have to fret over needing to print something every other day either. It would of course have been better if the cycle clock reset after each print but arguably printing in and of itself isn't using every inkjet simultaneously. The cleaning cycles will at least give all the inkjets excersise and prevent clogging. If your printer has any clogs I'm sure the deep cleaning needed to remedy it would use considerably more ink than several standard cleaning cycles?
The way I look at it is Insurance! When you need it you are glad you have it. If you never need it you have the cost of all those premiums paid. Auto generated cleaning cycles don't blow that much ink unless one waits 480+ hours between print jobs. If you do then a photo printer may not be something you should consider having. A lab would be a better option. Printer companies need to tell buyers about the needed commitment one needs to keep one of these printers happy. But they don't. Take care!
Jose Rodriguez Good point Jose, this information ( if correct ) also means users can calculate their printing budgets too. If I assume a worst case scenario of 2ml total ink used during a cleaning cycle and times that by 73 it works out to around one and a half full ink sets of wasted ink per year. An OEM ink set here in the UK retails around £85 so I can estimate that my purge cleaning costs will be around £130. Not cheap by any means but when it comes to pricing my prints I at least have an idea what my purges ( maintainance ) will cost me. If these regular cleaning purges keep my printer 100% reliable and stress free then I'm happy to absorb that cost. 😊
@@dunnymonster I notice that once you get an ink low warning on one colour the cleaning cycle starts up after every print if there is a couple of minutes gap. I find this infuriating. It appears that the printer is programmed to run all your remaining ink tanks dry. I While the Pro100 is a great little printer the ink usage is a rip off. I changed from Epson to Canon but my next printer will probably HP
@@cyclopicfun8763 Hmmm, I can't say I've experienced that with my Pro 100S, sure there's a bit of clunking and clicking but I don't believe that is the printer initiating a cleaning cycle between prints whatever the ink status is. If I am due a cleaning cycle then yes on first operating the printer I get what is clearly a cleaning cycle but after my first print all following prints go ahead with no such cleaning cycle, of that I'm sure. I did read somewhere that if you swap out an empty cart for a new one within one minute it stops the printer doing a purge cycle ( which would initialise the newly replaced cart but in turn wastes ink from the other carts during this process ). No idea if that's true, I do try to swap out empty carts as fast as possible just in case that is true however lol. Regards switching to HP, you might struggle outside of using Epson or Canon. I'm not aware of any semi professional printers from HP, I see only basic 4 ink consumer models and high end mega bucks pro models. Also unless you are creating your own ICC profiles you'll find using any papers other than HP's own impossible if colour accuracy is your goal. Few third party paper vendors offer generic ICC profiles for any of HP's printers as far as I've noticed anyway.
Yes powered on. If you powered off specially pulling the plug, and then power back on it will trigger that much larger 480 hour clean it cycle with lots of $$$ down the drain. Ok down into.The waste ink pads. After ANY cleaning cycle the clock begins. you can print as much or as little as you want until 119.99 hours and no cleaning cycles will be triggered during ANY of those print jobs. One second after the 120 hours and the next print will be preceded by a cleaning cycle and the clock timer resets again.
Hey Jose my friend I'm having a lot of trouble with Precision color inks leaking out of the bottles I just lost about a quarter of a bottle of black trying to refill a cartridge it just started leaking all over I can't seem to get a response from them as far as I want a refund or I want new bottles or something because this is like a complete mess you can't sell bottles that leak.
Have you ever tried the Precision color inks and the Canon OEM inks side-by-side prints the exact same photo same everything different inks and compared them?
Way back I did and the differences after profiling were negligible. I was more edited about printing for 1/15th the price. I do have a set of new carts I might re run that test when they eventually come up with a new black and yellow update.
Jose Rodriguez Okay thank you. I just printed some 13 x 19 black and white prints on ilford galerie prestige and they look pretty good they're not perfect but they look pretty good still in the learning process but I'm pretty happy with them.
Jose Rodriguez I'm wondering to Jose if I go up to the Canon Pro 1000 I know it's got four more ink cartridges in my pro-100 I know it prints bigger but does it also print better like I might black and white prints going to have more tonality because there's more inks I'm thinking about moving up to the 1000
Yes it should produce more nuances but it will excel more in color as well as their yellow Red and blue inks are exceptional which is why PC had to incorporate OEM for those three colors in their signature edition inkset. Watch my Pro10 series where I test oem against all signature edition and signature edition plus OEM Red and you will see how close the inks perform.
@@cheo1949 so I tried using the red river paper and it printed great but I couldn't find a paper with gloss on both sides and wasn't too exspensive. I found a 100# gloss on both sides to use but the quality wasn't so great. I mostly want to use it for direct mailers, any suggestions for the pro 100?
Here is my link to all my products and services. Consults are at the bottom of the page canonpixmapro1.homestead.com/tHIS-IS-YOUR-PLACE-FOR-CANON-PRO-1-REFILLING-SUPPLIES.html
Jose Rodriguez Okay I'll set something up with you on the phone as soon as I can I've already tried to do what somebody at the photo store told me to do to click on something to get rid of the cast and it's not working so this next week I'll give you a call arrange something.
Jose Rodriguez Have one more stupid question for you Jose why was the Canon pro-1 discontinued then they came out with the Pro 10 I don't see a difference between the two printer the pro-1 actually has more ink cartridges geared towards black and white printing why was it discontinued.
Jose Rodriguez so am I just wasting ink using Inkjet Plumber! Or should I continue using Inkjet Plumber so it does a nozzle check every 2 days so the heads never clog? Thanks again Jose!
Inkjetplumber does not do a nozzle check. It only prints a small purge print using very little ink. Once the 120 hours or five days from the LAST cleaning cycle is exceeded, whether you printed or not, it will run one before the next print job is initiated. This pertains to.The PRO100. Let me explain once again. A cleaning cycle is initiated either by you or the printer. The timer begins to count from zero. Whether you print something every minute or every hour or every day, of not at all. When the 120 hour / 5 day time limit passes, the next print job will trigger a new cleaning cycle and the new timing cycle begins again. If you decide not to print anything for days and 480 hours / 20 days passes, the next time you print, it will do a much larger cleaning cycle. And the timing cycle is reset once again. The firmware controls this and there is nothing we can do to disable it. People always wondered why Canon printers hardly ever clog compared to Epson? Now you know.
Yup. That PRO-1000 and up to the 6000 is about as good as it will get. The same can be said for the new EPSON SC P5000 and up to the P20000. Any future improvements will be about mechanical and operational improvements and features. Plus a tiny bit increase in picture quality. The Point of Diminishing returns as right around the corner.
So I fixed the blue cast that was on my black and white prints in the software where it says standard and it says color printing I didn't have black and white checkbox checked there for it was trying to make a black and white print printing colors the best it could so I checked the box and now it print beautiful still have not gotten Canon Studio Print Pro to work I've given up on that for now I'm printing straight out of Lightroom 6 Works beautiful. On a side note Jose I don't know if you've ever tried Nik software there's like a whole package for $149 you can download it for 30 days free fantastic fantastic stuff for Ultra in your prints in Lightroom it's like plugins it's really good you should look into it I don't know what type of Photography you do but it's good it has different analog black and white modes different color modes very interesting software.
wel no one wants to pay more than they should especially for a cleaning they did not initiate... But maybe this is the price for reliable day in day out quality printing.. I have used mine every day with a few missed days..since I set it up in July. and it loves ink... considering wat to do as I dont nee4d two printers at all.... maybe someone else reading this is in Denver and wants a working pro 100 and extra ink ? ..
i am using canon pixma pro-10, is there an inkjet printer you'd recommend that is better on saving ink? or a video link of yours that explains best use of that printer? thank you
What I said in the video applies to all then other models. All you can do is print relatively often and accept the auto cleanings as we can not do anything to prevent them. With the PRO-10 it will be more often since it is a pigment ink printer.
@@cheo1949 Thanks Jose for the quick reply. Love your videos. Learned alot about Canon printer from your channel. I'm curious, if the Pro-100 only have a pad, is the pad replaceable? If yes, how do we do that?
Jose Rodriguez true it sits in my bedroom between to other bedrooms. Nobody has heard a cycle and someone is always home. No cycle at night. My brother has health issues and spends most of his time in his bedroom. Never hears a thing. Must be a timer issue.
Hola Don Jose..!! Don't move., you will hate the winters while freezing your huevitos off.. LOL! So, Qimage cycles may not be needed and may be a waste of ink..!! BTW, my i1Studio Spectrophotometer hardware has arrived..!!
That's the unknown part and something that needs investigating. A forced 120 hour cleaning means that Canon must have thought the printer could develop a clog over the course of 5 days even IF you continue printing. Most of us are here because we refill: is 120 hours (5 days) good enough for 3rd party inks? Maybe 3rd party inks need every 60 hours: who knows? I feel safer doing a half page purge sheet every other day as it uses negligible amounts of ink and is good insurance in case my inks tend to clog a little easier than OEM.
Good point. Because even if you print something every minute for 120 hours, you would not assume that a cleaning cycle would be required. Canon apparently has not taken that into account. Maybe they tell that even on it prints would not trigger every single nozzle and so a cleaning would. Does the Qimage unclog pattern using say glossy paper setting, highest quakity, and no color management exercise 100% of the nozzles? I will begin my experiment with the PRO100 at this time. then others. My suspicion is that the eye Ink PRO100 will not be as wasteful as their pigment ink counterparts which I suspect with be as with the PRO9500 mkii. 60-120-240-480 hours.
Happy 4th Don Jose, Canon HAS taken that into account, but has chosen to perform this operation whether or not you use your printer. It helps to boost ink sales which is the main purpose of this exercise, in addition to lessening service calls by people who don't print often. Hasta luego..!!
The pattern is designed to exercise all the nozzles because there are no horizontal breaks in the color patterns: as the head sweeps left/right, there would be "work" to be performed by each nozzle. But I suspect even if you fired 100% of the nozzles, that is still no guarantee that ink is actually flowing through them. I think that's where the 120 hour thing comes into play: try to do all you can to ensure ink flow to all nozzles whether the user prints or not, and whether or not they look at nozzle checks. Even if you printed once per hour during the 120 hour period, there's still a chance that debris or ink starvation caused a problem and there are a couple unnoticed nozzles that might be clogged.
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Good day sir, can you please send me the information on how to properly replace the print head on the Canon Pro-100? I don't want to cause an issue with my new print head. Thank you
I'm using canon pro 100. I have learned a lot about my printer from your videos and still if i face any issue go through your videos. Thank you and keep it up.
I was trying to find a video on how to run the cleaning program on my Canon Pixma Pro 100. When I type in RUclips results I get about 11 of your videos and no one else. This video has nothing to do with the actual cleaning cycle on a Canon Pro 100 can you point me in the right direction so I don't have to watch every video? Thank you so much... appreciate all your work 🙏
I was getting lines through my black, did two 13x19 prints that were ruined. Put in a full tank and still lines, so that's four 13x19 inch prints wasted. I tried to milk a genuine black tank too hard. Tragic that such tiny ink tanks are used on such large printer. On my deathbed I'll still be regretting all that wasted ink and paper :(
I bought my printer about 3 years ago. The first few months I made probably about 20. 4x6 prints and probably four 13x19s.. for some reason my friends are loves to eat up ink as I can put a brand new pack of eight individual inks. After making one large 13 by 19 and then call me back a week later at least two or three of them will be empty. So the average cost of a print for me is close to 70.00 for one print
I havent used my pro 100 for 2 years... can I still use it? Do you have any advice how to start using it?
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A.C. Was Blowing like a banshee!
Jose Rodriguez Well then you don't need to worry about having it on because it's not at all audible. And I don't think I can hear any filtering artefacts. Maybe whatever filtering you're doing you could actually back it off a bit, not so we can hear the ac but just so the filtering doesn't inadvertently effect the voice.
So maybe this is addressed somewhere else, but I don't see any mention of it. What about doing timed small cleaning cycles to reset the clock? Does that work? Of course you're still using ink but it can be on your own terms. Just curious. I think you essentially said so around the 7:00 mark.
Whatever I said in the past, we NOW know a bit more and nothing is going to defeat this built in maintenance system. What is a Timed Small Cleaning Cycle anyway???? One you generate yourself? There are no differences between either the ones you might trigger manually or the Auto ones. There is NO way to disable this. Believe me!!!
Greets Jose!
I have an observation which I have not seen mention of yet but, knowing your extensive knowledge, you may have already dealt with it somewhere - in some context...
After practically every print I carry out on my Canon PRO-100S the unit runs some form of maintenance or cleaning cycle. I can hear it whirring away and moving parts about. I don't know what it is doing but I am concerned it could be draining my expensive carts with cleaning cycles.
I only print out graphic designs for clients - mostly block colours and text - so the photo paper is never being completely covered with ink (like a photograph using the whole paper) and there is plenty of white space in the finished results.
Do you have any idea what it is doing and, if it IS detrimental to my ink supplies, is there a setting I should be changing somewhere to turn this off?
Thanks in advance!
Mark (from MarkMyInk)
Yes that is the printer performing at Purge pad cleaning. The Purge pad is where the printhead will rest when it's not being used and they must be kept clean so after each print job it performs a bit of a vacuum cleaning of that area nothing to worry about it is not a cleaning cycle
@@cheo1949 Thank you for a clear and concise answer. That has put my mind at rest.
JHU is great. Grew up in Bmore.
Now, I'm an amateur. I've been printing a lot lately, covid free time, but generally I may print photos once every 6 months or more. (with my covid free time I've been printing about 5 hours a day but that's to catch up on my editing).
I have been tuning my canon Pro 100 printer off when I'm not using it, overnight during my covid free time.
Are you saying I should leave the printer on 24/7 even in times where I do not use it for months at a time?
Yes leave it on.
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Jose, in the video you have what appears to be all your Pro-1000 cartridges lined up in front of the printer. Do you not keep them installed in the printer or is this an additional set? Just wondering.
The printer still has its original carts. I have only installed a refilled Chroma Optimizer one. It was accepted as a Genuine Chroma Optimizer cart.
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It would be nice if Canon had a PRO mode that would allow you to disable this timer.
Then we would complain when they clog due to insufficient use. It's human nature to want full control. When you really think about it the auto cleaning as annoying as they seem, actually insure a consistently cleared printer. I never even need to run a nozzle check an important print job. I better do on an epson or I might find out too late that it had a clog.
Does the Canon Pro-300 do the same sort of cleaning cycle regime?
If it's a Canon yes. As what rate? Do not know. I don't own one.
Hey Jose... I recently purchased a Canon 8750 and after delivery and setting up I discovered You and your Channel. I was so intrigued by your videos I took the 8754 back to the store and told them it was FAULTY.......It was only 3 weeks old.......And guess what?......I purchased a PRO 100. Now your videos mean something to me..HaHa....I also purchased a Filling Kit and Empty Carts from Octoinkjet here in the UK....It now means I have a lot of backtrackin' to do with your Vids.......Great work Jose and also a very_very informative video series.....I am now HOOKED....Regards.
Enjoy that great printer!
I think I found a Canon 1000 I'm going to buy off of eBay. What about the carts I'm assuming they're refillable with Precision colors ink? do I have to drill holes in them how do I modify the carts or do I have to buy the card from you I'd like to know all the stuff before I purchased the printer thank you Jose.
Just watch my PRO-1000 playlist. All is explained in those videos.
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Yeah I think I'm going to probably stick with the Pro 1000 but I'm also looking at the Epson are 3800 I'm exploring my possibilities with Epson too.
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I watched your videos that you told me to watch I don't see a whole lot of difference between the pro-100 in the Pro 1000 it doesn't seem like it's worth another $900.
I'm actually going to buy the Epson p5000. That is a badass printer.
You are paying for a huge increase in techno th and features absent from the PRO100. Today's I inter have simply wok st reach their maximum quality output levels so any differences observed will be minimal!
Hola Jose, How often do I have to make a print no matter how small/big it is in order to maintain the printer working properly and not causing future damage to it?
It highly depends on the printer and your relative humidity. Some people will run a small print and nozzle check daily. Some only need to do it once or twice a week. There is no distinct answer. As often as you can won't hurt. But not once a month!
@@cheo1949 many thanks for your answer Jose !!
Can you explain the 480 minute cleaning cycle and how that comes into play? If the cleaning cycle occurs every 120 minutes, anyway, is the 480 hour cleaning cycle a more thorough cleaning cycle?
Well if you don't use your printer for 480 hours or 20 days or more since the last triggered cleaning cycle, then it will run a large cleaning cycle. The timer begins at the point when any cleaning cycle is performed or triggered. You can then print without cleaning cycles triggered until the 120 hour period is passed. For the 480 hour one to be triggered you would have to not used your printer for at least 20 days straight or more. Then when you send a print job it will run the big cleaning cycle and the clock begins to.count again.
I have no idea what you are talking about. I don't keep my printer on if not using. I print and then turn printer off. Please explain the best way to not waste ink... with cleaning's cycles. I've never had a clogged nozzle, and do not print regularly. But I do need to purchase ink, and feel like I don't print that much, and perhaps some is wasted on cleaning. But not sure.
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Jose, thanks for the video. Is there an update on this topic?
Still the same. Printing does not stop the timed schedule cleaning cycles. So you might as well print so you actually use more ink for printing photos than for scheduled maintenance.
What I'm seeing Jose between the Pro 1000 and the Pro 1 the pro one has an extra Gray called dark grey. I'm I'm sure the pro one would be a better black and white printer than the Pro 1000 due to that extra Gray.
I'm now stuck in my decision whether I want the 1004 the pro one the only thing I don't like about the pro one it only prints 13 x 19 prints.
Theoretically you would.think it would be a better BW printer but very likely you would not ever see any significant differences.
If we are printing regularly what then is the purpose of the cleaning cycles?
Theoretically regular printing will not use ALL the available nozzle 100% of the time. So a times cleaning cycle will.inside that the pro tee is always ready to produce perfect prints. If I don't check my Epson printer nozzles before an important print, I always end up having to run a nozzle check which shows clogs, followed by a cleaning cycle and another nozzle check and finally if I am lucky reprinting my job.
From a personal point of view this isn't as bad news as it might seem. Sure, it means I'm going to have to endure up to 73 wasteful cleaning cycles per year but also I now don't have to fret over needing to print something every other day either. It would of course have been better if the cycle clock reset after each print but arguably printing in and of itself isn't using every inkjet simultaneously. The cleaning cycles will at least give all the inkjets excersise and prevent clogging. If your printer has any clogs I'm sure the deep cleaning needed to remedy it would use considerably more ink than several standard cleaning cycles?
The way I look at it is Insurance! When you need it you are glad you have it. If you never need it you have the cost of all those premiums paid.
Auto generated cleaning cycles don't blow that much ink unless one waits 480+ hours between print jobs. If you do then a photo printer may not be something you should consider having. A lab would be a better option. Printer companies need to tell buyers about the needed commitment one needs to keep one of these printers happy. But they don't. Take care!
Jose Rodriguez Good point Jose, this information ( if correct ) also means users can calculate their printing budgets too. If I assume a worst case scenario of 2ml total ink used during a cleaning cycle and times that by 73 it works out to around one and a half full ink sets of wasted ink per year. An OEM ink set here in the UK retails around £85 so I can estimate that my purge cleaning costs will be around £130. Not cheap by any means but when it comes to pricing my prints I at least have an idea what my purges ( maintainance ) will cost me. If these regular cleaning purges keep my printer 100% reliable and stress free then I'm happy to absorb that cost. 😊
@@dunnymonster I notice that once you get an ink low warning on one colour the cleaning cycle starts up after every print if there is a couple of minutes gap. I find this infuriating. It appears that the printer is programmed to run all your remaining ink tanks dry. I While the Pro100 is a great little printer the ink usage is a rip off. I changed from Epson to Canon but my next printer will probably HP
@@cyclopicfun8763 Hmmm, I can't say I've experienced that with my Pro 100S, sure there's a bit of clunking and clicking but I don't believe that is the printer initiating a cleaning cycle between prints whatever the ink status is. If I am due a cleaning cycle then yes on first operating the printer I get what is clearly a cleaning cycle but after my first print all following prints go ahead with no such cleaning cycle, of that I'm sure. I did read somewhere that if you swap out an empty cart for a new one within one minute it stops the printer doing a purge cycle ( which would initialise the newly replaced cart but in turn wastes ink from the other carts during this process ). No idea if that's true, I do try to swap out empty carts as fast as possible just in case that is true however lol. Regards switching to HP, you might struggle outside of using Epson or Canon. I'm not aware of any semi professional printers from HP, I see only basic 4 ink consumer models and high end mega bucks pro models. Also unless you are creating your own ICC profiles you'll find using any papers other than HP's own impossible if colour accuracy is your goal. Few third party paper vendors offer generic ICC profiles for any of HP's printers as far as I've noticed anyway.
Is that time powered on ???
120 hours or total time? Without regard to unit being on?
Yes powered on. If you powered off specially pulling the plug, and then power back on it will trigger that much larger 480 hour clean it cycle with lots of $$$ down the drain. Ok down into.The waste ink pads. After ANY cleaning cycle the clock begins. you can print as much or as little as you want until 119.99 hours and no cleaning cycles will be triggered during ANY of those print jobs. One second after the 120 hours and the next print will be preceded by a cleaning cycle and the clock timer resets again.
Ok
So
Plugged in but either powered on or off
I guess the benefit of proper printing costs us in ink
Cost of using a printer!!
On. In fact Disable all Power options in the Driver Maintenance tab. Never Sleep, Never Off.
Hey Jose my friend I'm having a lot of trouble with Precision color inks leaking out of the bottles I just lost about a quarter of a bottle of black trying to refill a cartridge it just started leaking all over I can't seem to get a response from them as far as I want a refund or I want new bottles or something because this is like a complete mess you can't sell bottles that leak.
He or She did not properly install the O rings in the cap! I am using exactly the same bottles and I have not had a single leak problem.
Have you ever tried the Precision color inks and the Canon OEM inks side-by-side prints the exact same photo same everything different inks and compared them?
Way back I did and the differences after profiling were negligible. I was more edited about printing for 1/15th the price. I do have a set of new carts I might re run that test when they eventually come up with a new black and yellow update.
Jose Rodriguez
Okay thank you.
I just printed some 13 x 19 black and white prints on ilford galerie prestige and they look pretty good they're not perfect but they look pretty good still in the learning process but I'm pretty happy with them.
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I'm wondering to Jose if I go up to the Canon Pro 1000 I know it's got four more ink cartridges in my pro-100 I know it prints bigger but does it also print better like I might black and white prints going to have more tonality because there's more inks I'm thinking about moving up to the 1000
Yes it should produce more nuances but it will excel more in color as well as their yellow Red and blue inks are exceptional which is why PC had to incorporate OEM for those three colors in their signature edition inkset. Watch my Pro10 series where I test oem against all signature edition and signature edition plus OEM Red and you will see how close the inks perform.
which printer is that behind you?
The CANON IPF PRO1000.
@@cheo1949 so I tried using the red river paper and it printed great but I couldn't find a paper with gloss on both sides and wasn't too exspensive. I found a 100# gloss on both sides to use but the quality wasn't so great. I mostly want to use it for direct mailers, any suggestions for the pro 100?
Jose how much do you charge per hour to talk on the phone I need help?
all my black and white prints have a blue cast to them among other things.
Here is my link to all my products and services. Consults are at the bottom of the page canonpixmapro1.homestead.com/tHIS-IS-YOUR-PLACE-FOR-CANON-PRO-1-REFILLING-SUPPLIES.html
Jose Rodriguez
Okay I'll set something up with you on the phone as soon as I can I've already tried to do what somebody at the photo store told me to do to click on something to get rid of the cast and it's not working so this next week I'll give you a call arrange something.
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Have one more stupid question for you Jose why was the Canon pro-1 discontinued then they came out with the Pro 10 I don't see a difference between the two printer the pro-1 actually has more ink cartridges geared towards black and white printing why was it discontinued.
That I can not answer. Maybe it wasn't as popular as the PRO-100/10? I really don't know.
Great video Jose. Interesting news. Glad to hear your news about your sister! Dile... enhorabuena!
Wow that's crazy! I hope this doesn't apply to other Canon models .Good luck with this experiment! Btw excited to learn more on sublimation printing😁
Oh but is does apply to ALL Canon printers in one way or another. More on Sub printing coming very soon.
Great video Jose! Should I not use Inkjet Plumber?
You can but it will not reset the cleaning cycle timer.
Jose Rodriguez so am I just wasting ink using Inkjet Plumber! Or should I continue using Inkjet Plumber so it does a nozzle check every 2 days so the heads never clog?
Thanks again Jose!
Inkjetplumber does not do a nozzle check. It only prints a small purge print using very little ink. Once the 120 hours or five days from the LAST cleaning cycle is exceeded, whether you printed or not, it will run one before the next print job is initiated. This pertains to.The PRO100.
Let me explain once again.
A cleaning cycle is initiated either by you or the printer.
The timer begins to count from zero.
Whether you print something every minute or every hour or every day, of not at all. When the 120 hour / 5 day time limit passes, the next print job will trigger a new cleaning cycle and the new timing cycle begins again. If you decide not to print anything for days and 480 hours / 20 days passes, the next time you print, it will do a much larger cleaning cycle. And the timing cycle is reset once again. The firmware controls this and there is nothing we can do to disable it. People always wondered why Canon printers hardly ever clog compared to Epson? Now you know.
Jose Rodriguez Thanks so much for the info Jose 🙏
So what you're saying is I'm wasting my money and the Pro 1000 is about as good of a print as I can expect?
Yup. That PRO-1000 and up to the 6000 is about as good as it will get. The same can be said for the new EPSON SC P5000 and up to the P20000. Any future improvements will be about mechanical and operational improvements and features. Plus a tiny bit increase in picture quality. The Point of Diminishing returns as right around the corner.
So I fixed the blue cast that was on my black and white prints in the software where it says standard and it says color printing I didn't have black and white checkbox checked there for it was trying to make a black and white print printing colors the best it could so I checked the box and now it print beautiful still have not gotten Canon Studio Print Pro to work I've given up on that for now I'm printing straight out of Lightroom 6 Works beautiful.
On a side note Jose I don't know if you've ever tried Nik software there's like a whole package for $149 you can download it for 30 days free fantastic fantastic stuff for Ultra in your prints in Lightroom it's like plugins it's really good you should look into it I don't know what type of Photography you do but it's good it has different analog black and white modes different color modes very interesting software.
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no one wants to pay more than they should especially for a cleaning they did not initiate... But maybe this is the price for reliable day in day out quality printing.. I have used mine every day with a few missed days..since I set it up in July. and it loves ink...
considering wat to do as I dont nee4d two printers at all....
maybe someone else reading this is in Denver and wants a working pro 100 and extra ink ?
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Milwaukee is beautiful in the spring, summer and fall. Winters are too cold for my taste!
I lived in Mass for years and loved it. Don't mind it. Also remember I would not need to get up and go to work.
Thanks for the info great job 👍😎
Thank you.
i am using canon pixma pro-10, is there an inkjet printer you'd recommend that is better on saving ink? or a video link of yours that explains best use of that printer? thank you
What I said in the video applies to all then other models. All you can do is print relatively often and accept the auto cleanings as we can not do anything to prevent them. With the PRO-10 it will be more often since it is a pigment ink printer.
Does the Pro-100 have a maintenance cartridge? If yes, where is it located? How to access it?
No. Only the high end PRO-models like the PRO-1000 / 2000 / 4000 / 6000 do. The PRO-100-20-1 have has Internal Pads.
@@cheo1949 Thanks Jose for the quick reply. Love your videos. Learned alot about Canon printer from your channel. I'm curious, if the Pro-100 only have a pad, is the pad replaceable? If yes, how do we do that?
You do not do it. The service center does and it runs from $250-300. You are better off buying a new one.
I wonder how much current draw Jose has in the printer dungeon at 10am everyday?!
Not every day. I'd go broke! Every three days.
It's where I keep 13 photo printers sequestered.
Canon should hire you. They products would be better.
Believe me they don't want anything to do with me!
Hey Jose happy Fourth of July from California.
Than you!
My pro 100 will only do a clean cycle when I hit print after being unused for a while.. It may set for two weeks and it will not do a clean.
Sure. You're gone last 120 hours.
Jose Rodriguez true it sits in my bedroom between to other bedrooms. Nobody has heard a cycle and someone is always home. No cycle at night. My brother has health issues and spends most of his time in his bedroom. Never hears a thing. Must be a timer issue.
Hola Don Jose..!! Don't move., you will hate the winters while freezing your huevitos off.. LOL!
So, Qimage cycles may not be needed and may be a waste of ink..!!
BTW, my i1Studio Spectrophotometer hardware has arrived..!!
I've lived in New England and other cold places for years way back and I don't mind the winter.
That's the unknown part and something that needs investigating. A forced 120 hour cleaning means that Canon must have thought the printer could develop a clog over the course of 5 days even IF you continue printing. Most of us are here because we refill: is 120 hours (5 days) good enough for 3rd party inks? Maybe 3rd party inks need every 60 hours: who knows? I feel safer doing a half page purge sheet every other day as it uses negligible amounts of ink and is good insurance in case my inks tend to clog a little easier than OEM.
Good point. Because even if you print something every minute for 120 hours, you would not assume that a cleaning cycle would be required. Canon apparently has not taken that into account. Maybe they tell that even on it prints would not trigger every single nozzle and so a cleaning would. Does the Qimage unclog pattern using say glossy paper setting, highest quakity, and no color management exercise 100% of the nozzles? I will begin my experiment with the PRO100 at this time. then others. My suspicion is that the eye Ink PRO100 will not be as wasteful as their pigment ink counterparts which I suspect with be as with the PRO9500 mkii. 60-120-240-480 hours.
Happy 4th Don Jose,
Canon HAS taken that into account, but has chosen to perform this operation whether or not you use your printer.
It helps to boost ink sales which is the main purpose of this exercise, in addition to lessening service calls by people who don't print often.
Hasta luego..!!
The pattern is designed to exercise all the nozzles because there are no horizontal breaks in the color patterns: as the head sweeps left/right, there would be "work" to be performed by each nozzle. But I suspect even if you fired 100% of the nozzles, that is still no guarantee that ink is actually flowing through them. I think that's where the 120 hour thing comes into play: try to do all you can to ensure ink flow to all nozzles whether the user prints or not, and whether or not they look at nozzle checks. Even if you printed once per hour during the 120 hour period, there's still a chance that debris or ink starvation caused a problem and there are a couple unnoticed nozzles that might be clogged.
Good news nonetheless!!
When you wrap your head around the reasons why this is you sort of get it. I've learned to accept it.
I am just hoping that your test reaffirms this information.!!
I am pretty sure it will.