I'm printing out photos on glossy paper, and I'm getting line markings -- faint, but like on a TV screen. I'm thinking something needs to be cleaned, and can't find my little booklet. Any ideas how to fix this?
What model of Canon printer do you have? Are you getting vertical or horizontal lines on your paper? I have a Canon printer (i560) and is reading the manual right now. The suggestion for vertical or horizontal lines on a i560 is to align printer head. Not sure if your printer have the same problem.
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Posted - Jun 14 2004 : 4:05PM
Are you printing in the low quality setting? One of the reasons it's faster is that it doesn't have as much ink coverage. On plain paper, the spreading of the ink can mask that coverage, but photo paper needs better coverage.
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Posted - Jun 15 2004 : 1:13PM
thank you so much for posting this! i'm having the same damn problem. i bought the printer (i850) and let it sit for months before i used it. drew's convinced the problem is the heads drying out.
so annoying. let me know if the head thing fixes it. i tried all sorts of stuff that didn't work. sucks cause i didn't want to waste the color cartridges or expensive paper with screwups.
a digicam guru guy told me this was the best printer for my needs. well my needs aint met dammit!
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Posted - Jun 15 2004 : 2:58PM
If the cartridge has dried out you can just change it. Sometimes it just reseals and if you slam it against some newspaper the ink will spit out and it can be used. Believe it or not, an Epson techie had me do that one time, including slamming the cartridge door shut, too. If it's the head, Windex can unblock it. There are system cleaners made for specific cartridge types that contain a similar solution and are put in place of the ink for some cleaning cycles.
I dunno. I'm gonna mess with it this weekend.The pics come out pretty nice except for that. I framed up a 4x6 shot and it's pretty hard to notice, but I hate this stuff because I paid good money and these things should work right, dammit!
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Posted - Jun 15 2004 : 8:18PM
You need to clean up the Printing Head. I have similar problems with my Epson Stylus Photo 900 printer. Only way to clean it is with the printing software, you cant do it manually. At first I didnt know how to fix it until I took a look at the printer's manual. Try to find the manual and look at it or do the cleaning with software.
OK -- I will try that again. I think I found the way to do it, but when I tried it last night I don't think it did it. There's some fucked up interfacve with the i850 and the OS X, etc.
I almost wish I had waited another year to get the printer -- it's awfully glitchy. I'll be glad when all this goddam fucking hardware is all on beam. It's a constant zig-zag navigating the not quite matched up programs. Or whatever. Give me a motherfucking pen and a legal pad! Arrrrgggghhhh.
Realigned the heads and it still doesn't print the photos without the lines.
I'm thinking I should take some Windex to the rollers. At this point, though, I will probably just take any files I want nicely printed to a shop.
What I will ultimately end up doing is getting one of those card printers -- but I really hate the idea of spending another $200 -- sheesh! Maybe I'll just go back to the old Nikon!
I was just about to buy a Canon i850 (parts have started to eject themselves from my old DeskJet). I'm interested to see if there are resolutions to these problems.