Looking for Canon i9100 printhead

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Robert Peirce

I have a local dealer who can get one for $110+7.70 tax. Can anybody
offer another source where I might get a better price?
 
Rafe B. said:
I doubt it. That sounds like a pretty fair price.

If you don't mind my asking, how did the original print head go bad?


rafe b.
http://www.terrapinphoto.com
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It didn't. I am looking for a second head to run black inks. Trying to
swap color cartridges and B&W cartridges, I am told, is not a good way
to go.
 
I'm curious now. What do you mean by 'swapping' printheads. An i9100 head
hold six tanks - Black, Cyan, Photo Cyan, Magenta, Photo Magenta and Yellow.
Are you planning on putting in black ink cartridges in place of the color
cartridges? Do you already own an i9100?
 
Ron said:
I'm curious now. What do you mean by 'swapping' printheads. An i9100 head
hold six tanks - Black, Cyan, Photo Cyan, Magenta, Photo Magenta and Yellow.
Are you planning on putting in black ink cartridges in place of the color
cartridges? Do you already own an i9100?
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That sounds like it to me - there are black inksets available to
populate all the colour positions with varying "darkness" greys, so that
you can get true B&W prints.
 
I'm curious now. What do you mean by 'swapping' printheads. An i9100 head
hold six tanks - Black, Cyan, Photo Cyan, Magenta, Photo Magenta and Yellow.
Are you planning on putting in black ink cartridges in place of the color
cartridges? Do you already own an i9100?
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No, the "head" includes the holder and internal plumbing
for all six ink carts. So swapping the head really means
swapping all six carts. No big deal, it's all one unit.

Unless you're using a CIS/CFS, in which case the
plumbing would get in the way.


rafe b
http://www.terrapinphoto.com
 
Ron Cohen said:
I'm curious now. What do you mean by 'swapping' printheads. An i9100 head
hold six tanks - Black, Cyan, Photo Cyan, Magenta, Photo Magenta and Yellow.
Are you planning on putting in black ink cartridges in place of the color
cartridges? Do you already own an i9100?
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I just got an i9100.

You can swap cartridges in the prinhead or you can leave the cartridges
in the head and swap the printhead. I plan to do the latter so I will
have one head devoted to colored inks and one to black inks.
 
I'm missing something in what you are wanting to do. Granted, you can put
any color ink in any of the 6 positions since the cartridges are physically
identical. However, the printer only knows that black is in the first
position, followed by the 5 remaining colors. Putting black in all six slots
won't result in printing black from any of the other five slots. The slot
next to black is Photo Cyan, followed by Photo Magenta, Cyan, Magenta and
Yellow. If black ink is in the 4th slot (cyan), ink won't be used from that
tank unless the printer senses the need for cyan ink, regardless of what
color is physically in place. In order to use black from that slot, cyan
would have to be the color specified. The printer doesn't know that black
would be in all six positions, it only knows what is supposed to be there.
Ron Cohen
 
Ron said:
I'm missing something in what you are wanting to do. Granted, you can put
any color ink in any of the 6 positions since the cartridges are physically
identical. However, the printer only knows that black is in the first
position, followed by the 5 remaining colors. Putting black in all six slots
won't result in printing black from any of the other five slots. The slot
next to black is Photo Cyan, followed by Photo Magenta, Cyan, Magenta and
Yellow. If black ink is in the 4th slot (cyan), ink won't be used from that
tank unless the printer senses the need for cyan ink, regardless of what
color is physically in place. In order to use black from that slot, cyan
would have to be the color specified. The printer doesn't know that black
would be in all six positions, it only knows what is supposed to be there.
Ron Cohen
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As I posted yesterday, you can get "black" inksets that comprise various
shades of grey, used in conjunction with driver software that knows
which shade is where, just like the standard driver knows which colour
is where.
The idea is that you can get far better black & white prints.
 
As I posted yesterday, you can get "black" inksets that comprise various
shades of grey, used in conjunction with driver software that knows
which shade is where, just like the standard driver knows which colour
is where.
The idea is that you can get far better black & white prints.
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I've just returned a new 9100 due to a fault, and before I sent it
back I thought I'd run the inks down. I had loads of black left so I
thought I'd get a lot of B&W prints done. I used Canon paper and
selected greyscale for supposedly the best quality (a mag recommended
this for the 9000). The first colour to empty was the yellow. This had
been about half used before I started the B&W printing. The black had
been about 3/4 full, and by the time the yellow had gone, the black
was barely half used. I think the photo cyan wasn't far behind. I knew
colour was used even on B&W prints, but not to this extent, and with
greyscale selected too.

MJ
 
Ron Cohen said:
I'm missing something in what you are wanting to do. Granted, you can put
any color ink in any of the 6 positions since the cartridges are physically
identical. However, the printer only knows that black is in the first
position, followed by the 5 remaining colors. Putting black in all six slots
won't result in printing black from any of the other five slots. The slot
next to black is Photo Cyan, followed by Photo Magenta, Cyan, Magenta and
Yellow. If black ink is in the 4th slot (cyan), ink won't be used from that
tank unless the printer senses the need for cyan ink, regardless of what
color is physically in place. In order to use black from that slot, cyan
would have to be the color specified. The printer doesn't know that black
would be in all six positions, it only knows what is supposed to be there.
Ron Cohen
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Pieziography
 
I've just returned a new 9100 due to a fault, and before I sent it
back I thought I'd run the inks down. I had loads of black left so I
thought I'd get a lot of B&W prints done. I used Canon paper and
selected greyscale for supposedly the best quality (a mag recommended
this for the 9000). The first colour to empty was the yellow. This had
been about half used before I started the B&W printing. The black had
been about 3/4 full, and by the time the yellow had gone, the black
was barely half used. I think the photo cyan wasn't far behind. I knew
colour was used even on B&W prints, but not to this extent, and with
greyscale selected too.

MJ
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That is correct. I discovered this when I had an S520, which is why I
want to use black inks for B&W prints.
 
Now I see what you are talking about. A google search did lead me to
Inkjetmall and MIS as suppliers of quadtone and Pieziography inks. I also
saw several discussions on Pieziography and your posting about the problems
you had with an s520. The process has a great reputation (on Epson's) from
what I could see and if/when it becomes available on Canon models it should
be very popular with the more demanding users. For now it doesn't appear
that the system is available for the Canon printers although the note on
Inkjetmall's webpage indicated an expected availability in the Sept/Oct
timeframe. They better hurry since October is 1/3 over already.
 
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