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    Anatomy of a Canon print head

    Many thanks. That solved it. All I did was change the magenta cartridge and the cyan took care if itself for some reason! Why didn't I think of that before?
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    Anatomy of a Canon print head

    I have produced the regular and extended nozzle checks on photo paaper and tried to scan them. Apart from the black images and the large cyan rectangle the scanned colours are almost invisible to the naked eye. I have a 4X inspection lens here and with that I can see that the varous lattices...
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    Anatomy of a Canon print head

    Thanks, I do have an extended nozzle test print. I assume by that you mean the one from the service mode. The problem is that it is so faint that some of it is barely visible even on the original print. As I mentioned, the large cyan area on the print looks fine. The pigment black lattice is...
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    Anatomy of a Canon print head

    I have come very late to this fascinating thread. I have an IP4000 which produces a test pattern where the dark magenta and cyan areas are the same intensity as the light ones would normally be and the light areas even lighter. There is no striping apparent. Pigment black is OK, yellow "looks"...
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    Canon IP 4000 faint colours

    Nozzle test pattern hsa faint colours. Black text is OK. A different printhead with OEM tanks has the same problem. It looks like a printer problem rather than clogging.. Any ideas please?
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