Canon MG3250 printing double vision

[BrokenCanon]

Hi,

I have a Canon MG3250 and currently having an issue with printing.
When I print a word document (all black text, no images) it's printing double vision.

I have done a few deep cleans and head alignments in the settings which 'kind' of fixed the issue.. It fixed the double vision issue but now has a faded line straight down the middle of the page.

I turned my printer off and back on and now I'm back to the whole double vision issue again.. Any ideas?

To summarize: Printer printing double vision and when fixing double vision issue, printing blank (white) line down the middle of the page.

All help is much appreciated!

 

[PeterBJ]

Could you please upload scans or photos of a nozzle check and text documents showing the "double vision" and the white stripe. Windows printer test page is a good text document for this purpose.

 

[turbguy]

Probably a dirty timing strip affecting bi-directional printing. Try wiping it carefully with windex-soaked tissue...

 

[PeterBJ]

I think turbguy's idea sounds plausible, so I also suggest to clean the timing strip. Windex is hard to find in Europe but another window cleaner with ammonia should work just as well.

Here is a thread about a similar problem also with an MG3250. Cleaning the timing strip helped in this case.