I'm having a problem with my Canon ip4000 that has me completely stumped. The printer is about a year old and the only ink I've ever used in it is Hobbicolors ink. It has always worked great until about 2 weeks ago when I refilled the cartridges. What happened was that the day after I refilled the carts I did a nozzle check and the cyan color looked kind of magenta/purple. I figured the print head was clogged on the cyan color so I ran a few light cleaning cycles and eveything was fine again. The next day I ran another nozzle check and it was the same way again. I did a "deep cleaning" and it worked fine again. Next day another nozzle check and same problem again. I thought maybe it was a problem with the cartridge so I happened to have an extra hobbicolors cart that had never been used and I filled it with cyan ink and it still did the same thing.
Over the past few weeks I've tried cleaning the nozzles and head with compressed air, I've run warm water through the nozzles, I've let the head soak in windex on a paper towel. Each time I clean it it will work fine the rest of the day and then sure enough I can check it the next day and it is printing the wrong color again. I've tried printing a whole sheet of just cyan and it starts out printing what appears to be magenta/purple and as it goes down the page it has allot of banding and then it starts to turn cyan. If I keep printing long enough the cyan will work fine but the next day it starts all over again. At this point as much as I've cleaned it I can't imagine that it could possibly be clogged. I think it must be something else.
Does anyone know what the problem could be? Thanks!
Over the past few weeks I've tried cleaning the nozzles and head with compressed air, I've run warm water through the nozzles, I've let the head soak in windex on a paper towel. Each time I clean it it will work fine the rest of the day and then sure enough I can check it the next day and it is printing the wrong color again. I've tried printing a whole sheet of just cyan and it starts out printing what appears to be magenta/purple and as it goes down the page it has allot of banding and then it starts to turn cyan. If I keep printing long enough the cyan will work fine but the next day it starts all over again. At this point as much as I've cleaned it I can't imagine that it could possibly be clogged. I think it must be something else.
Does anyone know what the problem could be? Thanks!