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    Canon PIXMA IP5000

    Well, I've tried everything that you've suggested above, including using a cleaning cartridge, and numerous cleaning and deep cleaning cycles, with still no improvement. Is it possible to just remove the BCI-3eBK cartridge and get the printer to print black using the smaller black cartridge? Not...
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    Canon PIXMA IP5000

    Are there any more suggestions for what I can do to clear my problem up? I have printed several purge pages. All were completely fine except for the very last section printed which came out streaky. Why would it only have a problem with the last line? Why, when I print text, does it print one...
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    Canon PIXMA IP5000

    Ok - I've printed a purge page. All except for the very last bit has printed fine, but I'm wondering whether the printer used the small black cartridge to print this, not the larger BCI-3eBK one which is the problematic one. Is there any way to know? So I now have a piece of very floppy black...
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    Canon PIXMA IP5000

    Thanks for the replies. I have tried numerous cleaning and deep cleaning of the BCI-3bk cartridge with no success. Printing the nozzle check page, the first half of the Black is streaky as if the cartridge was low, and the second (lower) half of the printed area is fine. The colours and the...
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    Canon PIXMA IP5000

    Ok, please bear with me because I'm not too experienced at cleaning/maintaining/altering printer! I have a Canon IP5000. Recently printing some pages of text, the text was coming out streaky as if the cartridge was running low. I checked the cartridge concerned (the larger black one) and it was...
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