RMM
Fan of Printing
My iP4700 printer has been driving me crazy this past week! I went to print something and the blue was obviously streaking/missing. Ok... I did a nozzle check. As many of you know, there are three shades of cyan/magenta on these printers. The darkest blue is all there, the next shade lighter partially there, and the lightest shade completely missing. I ran a clean cycle and all shades returned. I printed 10 photographs with no streaking problems whatsoever. I figured that it was just a clogged nozzle from inactivity.
The next day... the same problem occurred. Cleaned head again, nozzle check restored, printed without incident.
Yesterday... the same thing occurred. I was sick of printing a nozzle check and cleaning every time I wanted to print a photo with this printer. So I purged the cartridge clean (with pharmacist's method and fluid), dried it, refilled it, and flooded the purge pads with Windex. After I reinstalled the cartridge I proceeded to print 22 4x6 cards with heavy blue. No streaking, everything was fine. I came back a few hours later, printed a nozzle check, and again the lighter shades were starting to disappear again. Did another head clean and everything was back to normal. Proceeded to print 22 more cards (back sides) without incident.
The printer prints fine once cleaned and I don't suspect a flow problem because I can print lots of heavy blue photos in a row with no problems. Everything is fine unless I let the printer sit for a few hours.
Does anyone have any advice?
I am going to put a cleaning cartridge in and run some cleaning cycles and see if it fixes my problem. Maybe let it sit in the printer for a day or two, periodically printing nozzle checks. It almost seems like the cartridge loses it's "prime". I have checked and the seal and everything looks fine, the cartridge is seated correctly and the sponge appears to be making good contact with the print head.
Thanks for all of your help and advice!
The next day... the same problem occurred. Cleaned head again, nozzle check restored, printed without incident.
Yesterday... the same thing occurred. I was sick of printing a nozzle check and cleaning every time I wanted to print a photo with this printer. So I purged the cartridge clean (with pharmacist's method and fluid), dried it, refilled it, and flooded the purge pads with Windex. After I reinstalled the cartridge I proceeded to print 22 4x6 cards with heavy blue. No streaking, everything was fine. I came back a few hours later, printed a nozzle check, and again the lighter shades were starting to disappear again. Did another head clean and everything was back to normal. Proceeded to print 22 more cards (back sides) without incident.
The printer prints fine once cleaned and I don't suspect a flow problem because I can print lots of heavy blue photos in a row with no problems. Everything is fine unless I let the printer sit for a few hours.
Does anyone have any advice?
I am going to put a cleaning cartridge in and run some cleaning cycles and see if it fixes my problem. Maybe let it sit in the printer for a day or two, periodically printing nozzle checks. It almost seems like the cartridge loses it's "prime". I have checked and the seal and everything looks fine, the cartridge is seated correctly and the sponge appears to be making good contact with the print head.
Thanks for all of your help and advice!