topic Re: Pixma Pro 100 Disable ink level reporting in Professional Photo Printers

Pixma Pro 100 Disable ink level reporting

chancereid — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 07:25:26 GMT

I'm wondering if there is any way to temporarily ink level reporting on this printer...I have an older Canon MP970 printer that uses the CLI-8 ink cartridges, and as I know that the physical cartridge is the same as the cli-42 for the Pro 100, I want to swap the chips out of my empty cli-42 tanks, and put them on my FULL cli-8 tanks...but since the chips are reporting empty, I would like to temporarily disable ink level reporting so that this brand new ink I have isn't wasted...

Re: Pixma Pro 100 Disable ink level reporting

ebiggs1 — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:31:26 GMT

I don't think so but I also don't think this is a good idea. Ink is the single most part of the printer. It is always best to use the only Canon branded ink that is designed for the specific printer.

I do not know but the ink formulation in the different cartridges, although similar dimensions, might be different. Hence the different part numbers. It would produce terrible prints if so.

Re: Pixma Pro 100 Disable ink level reporting

JohnB352 — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:03:36 GMT

You could temporarily not load that utilitiy at Windows startup. Just run MSconfig, click on the startup tap. I'm not on my home computer right now so I don't know the exact name of the executable, but it would be something-Canon. Just uncheck it and restart your computer. Later you can go back and check it off again, to get those alerts back.