Canon Pro-100 Banding in Standard Quality Mode but great in High Quality Mode

martincregg

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I use Color Precision Inks and have had no issues. After a period of no printing I get banding. I've watched videos and read forums and have cleaned the print head in a solution of 10 part distilled water, 2 parts isopropyl alcohol and 1 part ammonia. I did a nozzle check and found that the cyan nozzle is still causing the issue. HOWEVER, as soon as I did that I "accidentally" printed a Test page using High Quality mode. I noticed that there was no banding. Repeating this with Standard Quality mode reveals banding. Interesting! I reprinted an image that I know was banding and I got banding (this was done using Standard Quality)... sure enough, banding. I repeated using High Quality... NO BANDING.

The good news is I can now create prints that look fantastic. The bad news is that I suspect this uses a lot more ink. Am I correct in this?

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what else I can do?

One other piece of info that may be useful: I have tested using two different sets of ink cartridges and get the same issue.

Thanks in advance.
 

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Anyone have any experience regarding my post?
 

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Different quality settings use different droplet sizes which are printed by different nozzle rows so your observations are quite possible. Did you ever replace the printhead before ? It is most likely time to do so at this time.
 
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