[pchelpers] Re: Canon printer problems
- From: Cyril Halbach <cyril.kr3y@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:52:52 -0400
Sounds to me like the print head needs cleaning. I had a problem with
the Black dying on a Canon Pixma IP4200. It turned out that it was the
print head. Hated to replace it because it cost half the price of the
original printer but that was the only thing that fixed it.
Cy
On 11/4/2010 8:57 AM, Re-Na Hanson wrote:
> (I sent this but did not see it show up so I am sending again.)
> My personal favorite printer is having some issues.
> Canon pixma mp500 multipurpose
>
> 1.) Recently the black quit working.
> The cartridge was not even near being empty. I did install a new
> cartridge. Did not fix the problem.
>
> I ran a quick print head clean. Did not help.
> I ran the thorough one that uses lots of ink.
> It DOES show black on that one. But it did not fix the problem.
>
> I did a test printing out something in black, and you can see that the page
> has been printed on, but just a faint faint light gray hue is on the page
> where some of the typing should be, cannot detect contents of the page.
>
> 2.) The 'copier' wasn't working all of a sudden either. Put in a page to
> 'copy' and it came out blank. I think it looked the same, with just a hint
> that something had been printed on the page.<that was last week>
>
> 3.) The scanner wasn't working. It was last week and I forget the error
> but basically it could not read anything and gave me an error.
>
> Mind you, the printer went from 'working correctly' to all the above quite
> suddenly.
>
> The computer it is hooked up to is running windows xp.
> Today I deleted or uninstalled the printer and printer drivers in add/remove
> programs. I then let it detect new hardware. Got the printer back working
> and did some tests. Had some strange results.
>
> A.) I took a page of text, and randomly choose to put some paragraphs in
> different colors. The colors printed, the black did not.
> When I printed a 'selection' in black, nope, doesn't print.
>
> B.) Ok, next I did a 'copy' test. I put in something small and only part
> of it 'copied'/ printed.
> So then I put in a full page to copy. The good news, I did get some black
> to print.
> But, here was a another problem. Take a piece of paper, and draw a line
> down the middle and also a horizontal line across the center. That gives
> you 4 squares on the page. Looking at it in portrait mode, the upper left
> square is the only thing that printed of the whole page when I clicked
> 'copy'.<strange!>
>
> C.) Scan test. I scanned a page and said to save it on my pc as a pdf.
> That wasn't working last week but apparently after reinstalling the printer
> that is working. I saw the document on the computer. Yeah.
> <Not that I can print it, it is black and white>.
>
>
> What else can I do to trouble shoot these glitches, #1 and #2?
> My guess is I will have to replace my print head.
>
> Re-Na Hanson
>
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