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Weird Canon printer action has me stumped - Help!
Without jumping into the non-clogging printer thread, I can say that,
until now, my Canon iP4000 has been delivering excellent color images for years. Now, the printer does a fine job of printing a full 8˝ x 11 color image but only until it reaches the last inch of paper. Then some of the jets seem to start skipping leaving what might be called a magenta streak across the narrow dimension of the paper. It's not a solid streak—it's as if the photo black head sputters a bit. The streaking seems to recover and is almost gone by the time the printhead reaches the last 1/16 of an inch of paper. THis behavior seems to occur in a regular pattern on every print I make and I can't figure out what may be causing it. Recently, I migrated from Windows XP to Windows 7 (what a bloody pain) and had trouble getting the iP4000 to work on the Windows 64-bit system. I installed the aomwin110eaus program from Canon and that got the printer working with the 64-bit Windows 7. I'm not certain if this streaking problem is connected with the 32-bit/64-bit problem. I talked with Canon support but they couldn't help. Has anyone had a similar problem and, if so, how did you fix it? Any help will be appreciated. This is really a good printer and I'd hate to lose it. Thanks! pixmaker DaveinFLL It's not the heat, it's the humidity. (...think the humidity's bad? You should watch us vote!) |
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Weird Canon printer action has me stumped - Help!
x 11 sheet to each of you who responded to my problem.
FYI, I use MIS inks and have been refilling for years. Also, one of the best papers I've found is the 8˝ x 11 glossy paper sold by COSTCO. The price is right and the quality is (IMHO) excellent. I've heard that paper is made by Ilford, which explains its quality. Charlie+ may have hit on the answer. I've removed the printhead and cleaned it thoroughly and inspected the paper path as well. It seems to me that, if an ink buildup was to blame, the streaking would occur across the entire sheet (vertical lines in a landscape-format image. As the streaking only occurs near the trailing end of the paper, the idea of a subtle photo-black cartridge clog makes a lot of sense. The problem only occurs on an 8˝ x 11 sheet in landscape mode supporting the idea that the cartridge poops out but only after a considerable stretch of printing. I plan to create a set of color bars running horizontally on the landscape format, alternately red cyan yellow and photo black (I'll make them halftone bars to simulate printing a photo image.) That should let me determine which cartridge is failing. I'll let you all know what I find. Thanks Charlie+ for the observation and idea! pixmaker On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 07:44:10 +0000, Charlie+ wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:22:34 -0500, wrote as underneath : Without jumping into the non-clogging printer thread, I can say that, until now, my Canon iP4000 has been delivering excellent color images for years. Now, the printer does a fine job of printing a full 8˝ x 11 color image but only until it reaches the last inch of paper. Then some of the jets seem to start skipping leaving what might be called a magenta streak across the narrow dimension of the paper. It's not a solid streak—it's as if the photo black head sputters a bit. The streaking seems to recover and is almost gone by the time the printhead reaches the last 1/16 of an inch of paper. THis behavior seems to occur in a regular pattern on every print I make and I can't figure out what may be causing it. snip I think it sounds like ink starvation that only sets in after a significant throughput ie near the end of page. If you are using manyX refilled cartridges, the yellow and the photoblack in the IP4000 (a brilliant printer) tend to some age problems, the yellow sometimes will partially settle out of solution, the photoblack exit sponge sometimes clogs in the centre, thus throttling the throughput - I think this might be your problem. If you are using original and not too old carts then my analysis will probably be wrong! C+ DaveinFLL It's not the heat, it's the humidity. (...think the humidity's bad? You should watch us vote!) |
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Weird Canon printer action has me stumped - Help!
Charlie:
I liked the idea of replacing the black dye cartridge. . . especially since I've been refilling the present one for over a year! (I must have refilled at least 20X since new.) I guess I too would falter after having been refilled that often! Found a new (old cartridge) one, refilled it with black dye and ran three quick prints. VOILA! the problem has disappeared! The exit sponge is OK. I would think I'd have vertical streaks across the entire width of the landscape page if that sponge was a li'l high but I think your first ideasolved the problem. Now, I have another problem. . . The techs at Canon (very nice aand very helpful) suggested using the "avoid paper abrasion" setting and I did that setting. Now, however, I can't remove the setting! I have yet to try all the tricks to do that but it's really a pita. Ah well, at least I'm not bored! Thanks dm On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:27:39 +0000, Charlie+ wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:30:56 -0500, wrote as underneath my scribble : snip Thanks Charlie+ for the observation and idea! S'ok! You know that you can pull the exit sponge out with tweezers, give it a seeing to and replace? - this will help at least isolate the problem, then just get another cartridge and off you go again for another n refills!!! C+ DaveinFLL It's not the heat, it's the humidity. (...think the humidity's bad? You should watch us vote!) |
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