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Newbie to Printing
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- Jun 21, 2018
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- Pixma MP970
Hi Folks my first post but I was wondering if anyone has experienced strange printing problems which vary with replacement print heads.
The problem started when I printed out a colour document and found very strange colour bars horizontally so running a print nozzle check produced this which showed Half of Magenta missing, so I tried the usual nozzle cleaning, still the same tried distilled water, left it soaking all night tried again the same, so I tried print head cleaner still the same tried new cartridge still the same.
So I ordered a new head which was still sealed in a canon foil and got this result, now all colours are OK but no PGBK ink changed the cartridge printed tons of black documents cleaned just the PGBK using the software, in desperation replaced my original print head back in and PGBK back fine but only Half of Magenta again.
I was worried about posting this in case I got don’t be tight fisted get a new printer but I really love this great CD printing and scanner, the new canons appear to have reduced ink cartridges and introduced a grey cartridge what the idea behind that is, is a bit of a mystery.
Any help would be appreciated, if this was an electronic fault it would be the same on both print heads well that’s my logic, Thanks
The problem started when I printed out a colour document and found very strange colour bars horizontally so running a print nozzle check produced this which showed Half of Magenta missing, so I tried the usual nozzle cleaning, still the same tried distilled water, left it soaking all night tried again the same, so I tried print head cleaner still the same tried new cartridge still the same.
So I ordered a new head which was still sealed in a canon foil and got this result, now all colours are OK but no PGBK ink changed the cartridge printed tons of black documents cleaned just the PGBK using the software, in desperation replaced my original print head back in and PGBK back fine but only Half of Magenta again.
I was worried about posting this in case I got don’t be tight fisted get a new printer but I really love this great CD printing and scanner, the new canons appear to have reduced ink cartridges and introduced a grey cartridge what the idea behind that is, is a bit of a mystery.
Any help would be appreciated, if this was an electronic fault it would be the same on both print heads well that’s my logic, Thanks