Correzpond
Getting Fingers Dirty
My Canon Pixma ip8500 is printing bands approximately 1.5 cm from the end of each printed page. These occur at the same location on both A4 and 4 x 6 prints.
Example images are posted at http://www.pbase.com/correzpond/printer_problems
Lighter banding in cyan is evident right across the prints, however the most noticeable banding always occurs at the 1.5 cm point.
The issue was originally noticed with Hobbicolors Inks and cartridges, but has persisted through swapping out all the cartridges to Formulabs which makes me suspect a Print-head blockage or perhaps a paper feed issue.
I have cleaned the printhead twice with the 'Windex' method, running both deep cleans and manual printer alignments after each cleaning cycle.
At this point nothing has made any real difference and I am considering purchasing a new print-head from Canon. However at around $AUD200 for a new print head I would like to be as certain as I can be that this is cause of the the problem, and that it is not more likely to be caused by a problem in the paper feed mechanism when the printer is nearing the end of a page.
I would appreciate thoughts & advice from anyone that has seen this type of problem on their Canon and has been able to fix it!
Example images are posted at http://www.pbase.com/correzpond/printer_problems
Lighter banding in cyan is evident right across the prints, however the most noticeable banding always occurs at the 1.5 cm point.
The issue was originally noticed with Hobbicolors Inks and cartridges, but has persisted through swapping out all the cartridges to Formulabs which makes me suspect a Print-head blockage or perhaps a paper feed issue.
I have cleaned the printhead twice with the 'Windex' method, running both deep cleans and manual printer alignments after each cleaning cycle.
At this point nothing has made any real difference and I am considering purchasing a new print-head from Canon. However at around $AUD200 for a new print head I would like to be as certain as I can be that this is cause of the the problem, and that it is not more likely to be caused by a problem in the paper feed mechanism when the printer is nearing the end of a page.
I would appreciate thoughts & advice from anyone that has seen this type of problem on their Canon and has been able to fix it!