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Thanks grandad35, Did like you advised, and it seems to have helped. I hope it stays clean now.

I have a Canon Pixma ip 8500 at work that I use alot. I just started to get some black lines along the left side of the paper so I decided to do a cleaning, to see if it would help. After I started the cleaning, I got a window telling me that the Red color was out. It seemed that the machine was...

Well. how is this going to help me? Are you saying that I should punch a whole in the cartridge? What are the chances that more than one cartridge could not get air? Why did it change from red to green? Is there something else that could be wrong? I have never had a problem with previous...

HELP.... It did not last very long. Today the printer is back to printing all in green shades. (except black) What should I do now????? I don't know enough to have an idea, buy a new printer!!! Won't be a canon next time.... Thanks.

fotofreek & ghwellsjr, Thank you so much for helping me and taking interest in my problem. I looked at the cartridge and I really examined it. I barely found the grove mostly hidden under the label. It starts in the far end above the sponge area, and seams to end in the other end above the...

I did find Grandad35. Last night I did a printhead cleaning. I used the method that panos wrote about in the thread that I put a link to. (using windex and paper towels etc). The cleaning went well, and last night right after this, the printer worked fine the way it should, for the first time...

I was reading this forum earlier today and I read a post that niiice wrote on 1/28/06, check it out: http://www.nifty-stuff.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=764 Well, I have the same problem and I can't figure out who Grandad is, if it is someone on this forum, did a search and found nothing. Anyhow...