My brand new Canon Pixma is printing photos with stripes. Help!!

[sugarrushing]

I have a brand new printer nad tried to print some photos and all are printing with evenly spaced stripes through them. Kind of like a jail effect. What would be causing this as it's new so I know it doesn't need cleaning? Can anyone help?

 

[panos]

Printer properties > maintenance > nozzle check

does it look OK (no banding) ? if it does, do a print head alignment.

if it doesn't, perform a cleaning as instructed by the driver.

 

[on30trainman]

Are you sure that you have the printer driver set for photo paper and not plain paper. If I try to print a photo with the plain paper setting, there is a definite banding effect in the print.

Steve W.

 

[Manuchau]

All good advice....you might also have a problematic cartridge. You are under warranty with Canon and have a year of tech support.

One call to them and they either will fix your problem or send replacement parts. Give them a call, and your problem will be solved.

Also, if you have purchased this printer from a large chain store, they might replace it on the spot for you.

In any case, good luck.

 

[newfiewanabe]

Sounds like you are printing too fast. Open printer,Properties,Select Photo Paper Pro, down to print quality, custom, set on 2 or 1 this makes it print much slower and should give you a fine print providing your print head is not clogged or a cartridge near empty. All else fails call Canon they are excellent to deal with and will take care of the problem. They want us happy.
Jim