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The thing about alcohol is it absorbs water. Not only that but rubbing alcohol that's 100% is unheard of. I don't even think we have 90%. Is 70% enough?

Today I was surprised to find out that when I replaced the yellow cartridge, the LED stayed dark. Poking around, pulling it out, putting in back, etc. fixed the problem, but then the cyan went flaky too. Eventually I got them all working, but I'm wondering if this is just going to get worse and...

Well, I guess I'll never know. In the end, I decided to go ahead w/the photo printing and see how it goes. The banding was eliminated (yay!) but the pizza roller effect is now visible to the naked eye :( But you have to be looking really hard to notice, so I think I'm just going to quit while...

The service tool demanded a media type, so I just went w/whatever the default is. What I found is that LF=4 and EJ=4 were the winners. The service tools has 0s in their combo boxes, so I assumed that was the default. When I changed them to 4 and pushed "Set" I found that they returned to 0s once...

Ok I've gone through the instructions, and I just have a couple of questions: do I have to use A4 paper? Will US letter not be enough? Also, the automatic alignment asked that I use matte paper, but it doesn't seem to care for manual. Or is that what "media type" is? I don't know what "HR-101...

Ok, that part looks pretty complete. I'm going to need to be sure my ducks are in a row before I start this, because I have 2 bored cats who're going to think the pieces are cat toys I've put there just for them, so I won't be able to leave it half done. Having said that, how about this sensor...

I've already done an alignment. Ok, so I have 2 recommendations: Cleaning the timing band: is that the "Paper feed motor adjustment" that you find in the service notes at the end of the manual? I've also been told to clean some sensors but I don't see where in the manual it shows you how to get...

I see. Sounds like the sort of thing that voids your warranty. Not that there is one anymore, but there's a good reason why they can be voided prematurely. Is there a documented procedure for this?

I haven't been able to find anything that enabled/disables bidirectional printing, but I believe the "print quality" affects that. I did 2 of them in "high" and 2 in "fast". I didn't do any in "standard". You can see, the slower "high" quality print tends to reduce the banding, but I did my...

So where does that leave us? Scanning from Linux, I have the ability to play w/the darkness and contrast. Does this help? Are there some objective sources of colour that I could scan alongside the nozzle check that would be a reference? Like how about another scan w/these paint samples that were...

Oh. In that case I'm a little confused. I thought that the point of that was to do a nozzle check, not run the scanner. In any case, Canon isn't offering Scangear for my printer. They just offer this MP Navigator. I tried downloading Scangear from...

Ah, well, the nozzle check was done on plain paper.

If it'll help, I tried taking pictures w/my phone's camera: it's a Moto G Power, only a couple of months out of the box. Unfortunately, it's still a bit faded (maybe the lighting in the room), but much improved. Ironically, the pizza roller can still be made out w/the phone. Trust me: you can't...

You can ignore the pizza roller. It's not on the photo print. Not sure how it got there, but like I said, the scanner sucks too. The horizontal banding is what I'm hoping to get under control. The 2 images do have different brightness/contrast/saturation and everything. The scanner makes it even...

I have an MG6120 and when I print some photos on 8.5x11 "everyday gloss" photo paper from the Gimp in Windows 10 using the "high" quality setting (as opposed to "standard" or "fast"), using the rear paper tray, I get banding on parts and always the same parts. I've tried aligning the print head...