My experience is, that on my Pro-1 the cleaning cycles happen regularly after some time, whether printing every day or not. Been printing couple 4x6 every day and eventually on the third day the cleaning cycle just happened. Canon never disclosed all the magic that goes into the cycling these beasts...
Just to be clear. Is the process to print a nozzle check every day and print a matte test print and photo test print or should I just do a nozzle check every day?
Hello Jose! Thanks for all your videos! I accidentally started to fill my light grey container with regular grey. Should I do a Windex flush/ wait till dry and start again ? Would love your advice thanks!
I don't understand why QImage can not trigger all 12 cartridges, no matter the paper. I purchased the software expecting that it will do all inks but it only does the one you can select in the software and then I apparently I need to waste matt and glossy paper to trigger different inks? Is there no option or file that can trigger all 12 inks for a single page print no matter the paper selected? Thanks Jose Oh also, I am running low on 5 inks and I have them here already but its still printing, I am afraid that it uses now the rest of ink that is in the lines but the cartridge is empty. What happens if thats the case? Then it will take forever to refill the lines, won't it? Or will it stop printing when the cartridge itself is really empty. I use original inks. I don't have a weight scale to measure 33grams
Love your videos, seen several on the topic of PRO 1000 now and just have one question. I am just an amatur photographer so i will NOT print every day. But i still want really high quality prints. Is the PRO 300 "wasting" as much ink as the 1000? Or what should a amatur photographer buy not to be ruined by ink cost?
Just my 2 pence worth... but I'm pretty confident that the Pro-300 is a lot less wasteful compared to the Pro-1000. The 1000 is just a beast and if you're not really printing too often a 300 would be much more cost effective. Just our experience but the 1000 is likely just too much.
Would this apply to Canon Pro 200 & 300 also? I’m about to buy a Canon Pro 200 today and was concerned about ink usage or longer periods of time without printing. I was talking to my wife last night to explain that I think we should be printing at least one 4x6 photo a week and hopefully that’ll keep the printer working ok. Do you have any thoughts or criticisms about my plan? If we print enough I’d like to refill ink but if that’s the case then maybe we will one day upgrade to the Pro 1000…for now this is personal use. I have a spinal injury so it makes life in general difficult so this is one part of wanting a home photo printer instead of outsourcing and I don’t like the shipping aspect since I’m impatient 😂. The other part is we have a toddler who likes taking photos with us and going through the whole process would be fun and educational…even though he’s only 3.5 years old. I’ve had really bad experiences in the past with inkjet printers and even with almost full ink cartridges they say they are empty or low…this was like a decade ago or longer and since then I’ve used a home B&W laser printer or outsourced my colour and photo prints.
Hi! I'm looking for some advice. I got my PRO1000 this tuesday and have approximately printed 5 x A3 and 10 x A2 since then, all on Canons luster paper. More precisely it is 5 x 30x30 cm and 10 x 42x42 cm, basically squares the size of the shortend of the papers. The rest of the paper area were left unprinted. When I check my ink levels it is already down to a third on each of the cartridges. When I saw this I freaked out a bit. Have I been doing something wrong, do the starter cartridges not come full or what is going on?
Half of starter cartridge is used to fill internal tanks and tubes inside printer. They even mention this in manual - that first set will produce less prints
I've been following your advice for about 6 months now, but I have to say that I think "once per day" is too much, at least with the latest firmware and with a new printer. I've noticed the same amount of "long cleaning cycles" printinf every day or printing once a week/5 days... I was printing every day and my inkeset in one day went from 30% to 10, all inks (half were already at 10)... Then they stayed there.
@@MIshaHaijtemawell, the most important thing is to use it as much as you can, like he says... I only have experience with mine, so it is not statistically relevant, but personally I have the latest firmware and I keep it on all the time: even with daily purge sheet printing, I get long cleaning cycles once in a while.
@ridni2388 I was thinking of buying this printer but I heard that for non-intensive use (hobby), the canon Pro-1000 would waste up to 50% of the ink with expensive periodical cleaning cycles. From your experience would printing once a week significantly avoid ink waste? Can you estimate in total how much % of the cartridge is ending up in the waste box? Thanks in advance for your reply
Unfortunately the issue around ink waste is common & being a problem for years!, what you have to understand is that Canon, Epson, HP are all the same they design & program their printers to clean the nozzles on a regular basis & basically Waste lots of ink which in turn forces you to Buy More ink = More profit for the above printer manufacturers 😊
