does any one know why the ink cartridge has a electronic strip on it.
My question is will other cartridges without the strip work. or can
you some how dump the ink in the original cartidge?

If you're talking about the "chip" on the newer tanks, yes it does have to
be there. You can, however, reset the printer to accept that tank as full,
and you can also move the chip from one tank to another.
Most of the ink and tank sellers now have instructions available for doing
this.

Suggest you visit www.allotofthings.com

<jthomas39 (AT) cfl (DOT) rr.com> wrote

"Dan G" <none (AT) 12345 (DOT) org> wrote

electronic strip on them. The newest generation of Canon printers use
chipped carts. There is, to my knowledge, not a chip resetter available as
there is for Epson chipped carts. Both can be refilled but the printers
that use chipped carts will stop monitoring ink levels once you refill a
cart it has registered as empty. Chips can be removed and "transplanted" to
aftermarket carts, but they can not be reset to reactivate the ink monitor.

Cartridge World UK supply refilled Pg5 and CLi 8's that have had the chips
reset. They purhased a commercial chip resetter from the phillipines that
will do the job. It works! I have had some of the cartridges, they go in the
print just like new ones.

"Burt" <sfbjgNOSPAM (AT) pacbell (DOT) net> wrote

"Stick Stickus" <dclinc (AT) NOSPAMgofast (DOT) co.uk> wrote

I have read about a Canon cart chip resetter that is more expensive than an
individual end user would afford. At this point anyone who is refilling his
own carts would not have access to a resetter such as is available for Epson
carts.

Nobody can refill a CLI8 Canon cart with appropriate ink since this new
patented Canon formula is a total secret and unique to Canon. Canon
does not sell this ink in bulk. So what ever went in to these carts is
who knows what.

I think that they claim it is Formulabs ink but I have not seen that
fact publically disclosed. And even if that is the case it is the same
Formulabs ink that many claimed that it was the same as the Canon BCI 6
and Canon has moved on from that.

Stick Stickus wrote:

On Apr 11, 7:59 pm, measekite <inkysti... (AT) oem (DOT) com> wrote:
How much does Canon pay you to make you say such idiocies ?
Don't listen to this troll paid by the manufacturer... I have _always_
used compatible cartridges with results equal if not better than the
original...

-Fred

grok wrote:
brain dead!
Frank

"grok" <grok68 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

patented, it is therefore definitely NOT a total secret? Patents are
available to anyone who wishes to look them up, and no patent authority is
going to issue one without full disclosure? Still, it was Measekite who made
the statement...
Steve.
P.S. Spellchecker just suggested 'miswrite' for Measekite! Well done,
Microsoft!

"grok" <grok68 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote


what people want out of a printer. If our troll really believes that the
new inks are so much better he should trash his ip4000 printer and buy an
ip4300. The fact is that, for his use, the ip4000 must be more than
satisfactory. By the same token, those who wish to refill the new chipped
carts have more than one high quality source of inks for these printers.
From what I've read, the ink colors are very close to the bci-6 colors
except for a reformulated magenta. Some people are using the new ink sets
in the older bci-6 printers and like them better than the inks available for
the bci-6 carts. I would guess that people who refill their carts or use
aftermarket prefilled carts would have still preferred to buy the ip4000 if
they were available and not the ip4300.