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Trigger, there are no missing teeth. Who said there were missing teeth? Look at the picture and you can see all the teeth. There is a gap in the solid backing behind the teeth. Thanks to Ron I now am sure that this is normal. Ron, thanks for your input. I was a little frustrated after it was...

I tried to look at the timing wheel as best I could when the unit is powered on. One time it came to rest at a point where, this is a little hard to describe, although the outer (leftmost) side of the timing wheel for most of the 360 degrees is slightly higher than the further left of the two...

First Grandad. Way earlier in this thread I mentioned that I had tried the post-it trick even before I started this thread. It made no difference, but thanks. Trigger. Thanks for your reply. Yes I know (now) that we are not dealing with an actual physical smear. The mostly black test image was...

Well I did some more experimenting today. The problem is the uneven rusty smear that occurs only from black and only in the last inch and a half of full page print. This problem occurs regardless of the borderless overspray setting, and regardless of quality level setting. There is however one...

Any thoughts on these test images? Anyone? ... Trigger?

OK Trigger, here goes: All images show the trailing edge of the paper as the right side of the image. All images have to printer settings on Custom/diffusion/QualityHighestAvailable. The borderless setting is chosen, and the overspray setting is set to minimal except for the last of these 4...

Thanks for the offer Ron. I'll spend some time trying to clean this head in various ways and even if the nozzle check is still flawed, I'll probably keep using it for a while. Next time I want to make some big prints I'll probably get a new printhead. Lately I mostly have been using Costco to...

AZ, just a few letters from AL. I don't know anyone who has an IP3000 ... not that I haven't recommended them to my friends. I found this interesting post about an i560. Looks like this problem is VERY common. Perhaps an issue of planned obsolescence with the printhead ?

Well I got another Cyan cartridge today. The previous one on Sunday gave the "out of ink" message. First thing I tried was to wipe the contacts on the back of the printhead with alcohol, and also I gently wiped the contacts in the carriage with a paper towel wet with alcohol. I then did a...

Grandad, I read all the way through the thread albeit quickly. If I understand correctly, Trigger's last thoughts about the ultimate cause of the evenly split Cyan band, was that it had to do with poor electrical contact between the printhead and the carriage. The idea of coating the contacts...

Whoa Grandad ! I just saw your post and was checking out some of the links. Electrical sounds good to me. (which is bad). Does this shed any light? When I print (anything) in standard mode, text comes out OK but graphics (like the gray areas of tax forms, no I mean the color gray LOL) , come...

Dan, Really interesting post. Yes I'm convinced some of the Cyan ports are plugged. My Cyan Cartridge just started giving a low on ink message. Tomorrow I'll buy another one. I'm thinking of trying to blow out the port with compressed air as recommended on Neil's InkJet Page. From what I can...

Mikling, Does the nozzle check print look the way it's supposed to look? I thought the upper Cyan band was supposed to be solid darker blue. Not split down the middle, with the lower half being lighter blue. Also the bottom half of the letters 6C 6M 6Y are red! That's not right is it?

mikling, Two thumbs up for you. One for seeing the problem (that's the easy one) and two for commenting that it looks more like a nozzle problem rather than a printhead smear. You are right on that. I should have seen it earlier. In the first post where I included an upload of the entire 4...

I've circled the areas that have the vertical rust colored smear.

Hi Ron, I'll check out my printer and get back to you. Right now I'm in the middle of doing my taxes :mad: Well at the very right edge of my upload you can see the fabric of the sofa that the photo was lying on when I took the picture. If by tree bark you mean the rust colored vertical...

Trigger, "yuyakay,... I'm sorry, but the uploaded picture is out of focus to the point I can't see tell if there is any smear anywhere." I stated that the smearing is on the right side of the picture of the hummingbird. The smearing is so obvious that I didn't see the need to describe it in...

Here's a crop of just the hummingbird.

Thanks for your reply Trigger. I always use the sheet feeder when printing photos, and the paper is Kodak Premium Picture Paper, which is what I've always used successfully and which is not really very thick. Unfortunately the small size required for upload makes it hard to see, but does it...

Hi everyone. ... new member, first post. My IP3000 started making broad smears starting around 1.5 inches from the end of a 8.5 X 11. The smear can be seen on the right side in the photo of the hummingbird. It is also slightly visible in the Ocelot picture below the hummingbird. My printer...