dparadowski
Getting Fingers Dirty
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I have any interesting, to me anyways, question. I have has 3 canon printers, a i960, IP5200, and now an IP6700D. On each printer I have noticed that the Cyan ink is the first and only ink to give me problems. After refilling a few times pictures develop streaks in the beginning. After seeing this happen, I noticed it was the cyan that was missing. I Printed the detailed nozzle check via the button sequence and low and behold the cyan is missing a bunch of lines. I let the printer sit a few minutes (20-30) and try again. This time a perfect pattern. I try a few pictures, and after about 2 I get the streaks again. I print the detailed nozzle check and the cyan is missing lines again. The first time this happened (on the i960) I bought the IP5200. After a few refills the same thing happened. I decided to buy new ink from we-ink thinking it was old, about 6mos., and the problem seemed to go away. Then about a month later the same thing happened. I read the forums and decided to purge the cartridges. This seemed to work for about 2 more refills. Now I have the 6700D and I'm getting the same problem, again with only the Cyan. If I put in and OEM the problem goes away, so I know it's not the printer/printhead, and I can't believe I got 3 different printers with defective cyan nozzles.
Has anybody else had anything similar happen to them. If so how did you solve it. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I am leary about diluting the ink, because I don't know how far is too much and have read that it's hard to tell if the viscosity to too much or too little.
Has anybody else had anything similar happen to them. If so how did you solve it. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I am leary about diluting the ink, because I don't know how far is too much and have read that it's hard to tell if the viscosity to too much or too little.