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Yup, I know that trick - just couldn't find a piece of black paper last night :) Here's another shot, backed up with black paper and cropped to show more detail of the crosshatches. Still not great, but you can see a bit more: Sorry, forgot that different Canon printers print different test...

Correct. Correct. Yup, and I even saved some. These are from the #2 printhead, I think, after it had developed problems. Below are the regular nozzle test and the extended nozzle test. Ignore the funky color rendition and ignore the apparent density variations in the cyan bands (the paper...

Hmm. By light usage I meant I would generally print a page or two of text every other day or so. Every time I turned the printer on, there would have been a light cleaning cycle for all of the inks, but it's true that the color ink carts were rarely printed with and therefore would have stayed...

Hi George - Thanks for the detailed report! To answer some of your questions: 1. I did not check the condition of the printhead immediately before sending the printer, and I had stored the printer for a month or two before getting around to offering it on this forum. However, when I put the...

Just bumping this thread to let folks know that the printer is still available. If I don't hear from anyone by the end of the day Friday, I'll assume there's no interest and will put some bits up on ebay and take the rest to the local electronics recycling organization. Inkling may well be...

Hi all - I have a Pixma IP5000 printer which has given me a series of problems - do a quick forum search for my username if you want the gory details. Basically, the problem has been erratic magenta performance. It's not a cartridge problem (I've switched in new OEM carts, with no luck), and...

I just tried lightly cleaning the contacts with a pencil eraser, and, nope, it didn't make any difference. One thing that is worth mentioning, however. When I pulled the printhead out of the printer, I noticed that there was a bit more ink pooled around the nozzles than I would normally have...

Thanks for the reply! Your suggestion seemed like it might be the answer, particularly after I pulled the printhead out and discovered that it was literally dripping cyan ink. The Cyan cartridge was a Hobbicolors cartridge, the kind with the screw in stopper for the ink tank. It turned out...

Hello all - A while ago, I posted about a problem I was having with improper magenta printing with my IP 5000 printer. Eventually, I bought a new printhead which solved the problem (this was the second replacement head I have used; I had had the same magenta problem a year earlier and...

Interesting. So if the aluminum heatsink moves around and causes a 'click,' does this any visible problems with print quality? Also, note that I started hearing this clicking sound before I tried any cleaning procedures with the printhead (beyond the printer's own normal cleaning routines...

Thanks for the suggestion. However, as I mentioned in my initial post, I tried exchanging various cartridges (Hobbicolors, a refilled Procolor, and an OEM Canon) and it made no difference. And the new printhead works fine using the same cartridges that I had been using with the previous...

Well, I went ahead and bought a new printhead. Not surprisingly, installing it solved the problem (whatever the exact problem might have been). One slightly surprising point that might be relevant: my old printhead developed a very quiet but audible 'clicking' sound, a click that occurred...

>>>>> You have stated that you don't have any clogs but this is very difficult to determine with the normal nozzle check because the printer overlaps ink drops when forming the dots that make up the nozzle check patterns for the dye inks. See this link for a complete description of this...

Hello all - I have a Canon Pixma IP5000 printer (modded to print DVDs), and have been refilling my cartridges with Hobbicolors ink. About a year ago, my images started printing with significantly reduced magenta. Repeated cleanings did not solve the problem. The nozzle test showed no...