All I meant was that since "the recipe" (if I remember correctly, I think that's what they called it on the Waltons) worked so well, I was afraid that it might "eat up" the purge pads. I just printed several more pages to push ink through and clean out the solvent.
I hope this helps more...
Stratman, you are the bomb! :)
I dripped H2O on those pads until it pooled. Nozzle check pattern showed a few very light black smudges. This encouraged me to continue.
The next nozzle check had no black smudges. Soooooooooo I put more water on, ran deep cleaning and printed another pattern...
Okay. I followed Stratman's instructions and here are the results:
1) When I dripped water onto the purge pads. It was absorbed. from his info:" If the fluid doesn't pool then you have a problem with the purge system." (I thought "this is not good.)
I went ahead and dripped some more water...
I tried scanning the nozzle check on the copier here at work - results no better. I can tell you that the "bars" for all the colors look fine. The only problem is no pattern for the large cartridge. I wish it were still under warranty. I have the worst luck with electronics. I even had a plasma...
I uploaded the nozzle check printout. However, my scanner barely picked up the colored bars. I can tell you that they were all there and of a good intensity. If something else was supposed to print for the large cartridge, it did not.
I tried to upload the image, hope it works.
I didn't get...
Please help!
My canon mp560 will not print from the large black cartridge. I purchased a new (canon) replacement cartridge and the printer monitor says that the ink levels are full but when I print text docs, blank pages come from the printer. I can "cheat" by changing the text to a color other...