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From: Jake on 21 Mar 2005 19:02
I have noticed my I 960 is not printing in color correctly. I did a head
cleaning, when I do this does it not run any paper through the printer? Mine
didn't. I first did a nozzle check and the 6M cartridge did not show
anything. I did some cleaning and then a deep cleaning a couple of times and
it did start to show color on the page then. The colors at the top of the
page when it prints the bars is very light though, it might supposed to be,
not sure. I wonder if I could take the print head out and soak it in some
hot water and a 20% solution of ammonia, wonder if that would hurt anything/
Thanks in advance


From: bmoag on 21 Mar 2005 21:44

Was the printer ever working properly?
Did you change your printing protocols?
If the colors are excessively pink this may be a software issue (color
management being applied twice) particularly if the pink coloration shows up
in the print preview window.


From: Wolf Kirchmeir on 21 Mar 2005 23:04
Jake wrote:
> I have noticed my I 960 is not printing in color correctly. I did a head
> cleaning, when I do this does it not run any paper through the printer? Mine
> didn't. I first did a nozzle check and the 6M cartridge did not show
> anything. I did some cleaning and then a deep cleaning a couple of times and
> it did start to show color on the page then. The colors at the top of the
> page when it prints the bars is very light though, it might supposed to be,
> not sure. I wonder if I could take the print head out and soak it in some
> hot water and a 20% solution of ammonia, wonder if that would hurt anything/
> Thanks in advance

I had a similar problem, it came about because I did not change the ink
cartridge soon enough, and the corresponding part of the printhead dried
out -- at any rate that's my diagnosis. I don't know why magenta is so
fussy, though.

Taking a hint from an Epson owner who used Windex, I squirted a little
bit of Windex into the magenta cartridge, did a deep clean, and ran the
test print - showed marked improvement. SO did it again, and did it for
all six cartridges while I was at it. Much, much better.

But lately I've noticed faint streaking on the prints, and that means
another round of Windex cleaning. It may be that some dried/drying ink
from the docking station sponge is clogging the print nozzles, so I
would like to know how to clean or replace that sponge.

HTH&GL
From: Burt on 21 Mar 2005 23:50
First thing to do is insert another Magenta cartridge and see if the problem
might be the cartridge. Read Neil Slade's informative site on clearing
clogged jets. The link is
http://www.neilslade.com/papers/inkjetstuff.html . Very good information on
dealing with banding, jets not printing properly, etc. Since it is not
printing the nozzle check correctly it would not be color profiles. It is
normal to not use paper when doing the head cleaning, but you do not want to
do several deep cleanings. Generally, as Neil Slade writes, the way to
prevent these problems is to print full color photos often. He suggests one
a day at least. Nozzles clog when you don't use the printer. The test
print for the nozzle check is very light. You don't want to see any breaks
or unprinted bands in any of the color rectangles. Another test is to do a
six color "purge print" page with setting at plain paper. I think Neil has
one of these on his site that you can download. If not, you can get it on
the MIS ink web site. You can see the actual colors of the inks and see if
the printing is continuous or has bands of unprinted areas.

"Jake" <jfoster1(a)nospamcableone.net> wrote in message
news:113uopbhb2hmh42(a)corp.supernews.com...
>I have noticed my I 960 is not printing in color correctly. I did a head
> cleaning, when I do this does it not run any paper through the printer?
> Mine
> didn't. I first did a nozzle check and the 6M cartridge did not show
> anything. I did some cleaning and then a deep cleaning a couple of times
> and
> it did start to show color on the page then. The colors at the top of the
> page when it prints the bars is very light though, it might supposed to
> be,
> not sure. I wonder if I could take the print head out and soak it in some
> hot water and a 20% solution of ammonia, wonder if that would hurt
> anything/
> Thanks in advance
>
>


From: measekite on 21 Mar 2005 23:57
Are you guys using OEM Canon Brand INK? If not what brand and source
are the ink you are using?

Wolf Kirchmeir wrote:

> Jake wrote:
>
>> I have noticed my I 960 is not printing in color correctly. I did a head
>> cleaning, when I do this does it not run any paper through the
>> printer? Mine
>> didn't. I first did a nozzle check and the 6M cartridge did not show
>> anything. I did some cleaning and then a deep cleaning a couple of
>> times and
>> it did start to show color on the page then. The colors at the top of
>> the
>> page when it prints the bars is very light though, it might supposed
>> to be,
>> not sure. I wonder if I could take the print head out and soak it in
>> some
>> hot water and a 20% solution of ammonia, wonder if that would hurt
>> anything/
>> Thanks in advance
>
>
> I had a similar problem, it came about because I did not change the
> ink cartridge soon enough, and the corresponding part of the printhead
> dried out -- at any rate that's my diagnosis. I don't know why
> magenta is so fussy, though.
>
> Taking a hint from an Epson owner who used Windex, I squirted a little
> bit of Windex into the magenta cartridge, did a deep clean, and ran
> the test print - showed marked improvement. SO did it again, and did
> it for all six cartridges while I was at it. Much, much better.
>
> But lately I've noticed faint streaking on the prints, and that means
> another round of Windex cleaning. It may be that some dried/drying ink
> from the docking station sponge is clogging the print nozzles, so I
> would like to know how to clean or replace that sponge.
>
> HTH&GL
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