Ah-ha! So there's a whole bank of nozzles not putting out at all.
Thanks again. I just put in an order for a new print head.
(BTW, you might be interested to hear what this on line seller told me when I spoke to him over the phone. He said that, yes, my print head (QY6-0049) was...
I had an ink pad alarm about 6 months back. I thoroughly cleaned the ink troughs where the pads sit, and cleaned the print head as well. (At that time, I also had a little clogging which affected my prints a little.) After that cleaning, print quality was fine until this.
I guess I'm...
Thanks for your feedback. I was afraid it might be an electrical problem.
However, I've seen in some of your other posts about electrical problems developing because of ink leaking onto the contacts of the print head. Could this be a reason for what I'm seeing?
Thanks again for your help!
The standard nozzle check looks normal except that on the top 6C row (dark cyan) the top half is dark cyan but the entire bottom half is light cyan. (Should be all dark.) The second 6C row (Light cyan) is normal. Very uniform colors so clogged jets does not seem to be the problem.
Then the...