i950 hardware problem?

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All,

Since a couple of days, I get a heavy green cast on the bottom of all my
prints from my i950.
I looks almost like a green marker effect on the last inch of every page. A
non printed region is not affected, so if I leave a bottom border of at
least 1" the green cast is gone. The green stripe appears on any size
paper. My driver is latest version 1.62.

I doubt this has anything to do with choice of ink or paper. At the moment
I have both original Canon cartridges and 3rd party ink in the print head.
Papers I use is Canon Pro, Canon semi-gloss, Ilford Classic Gloss.

I print using Photoshop and/or Qimage. Same effect.

Any similar experiences?

Apart from that, I've been very happy with my i950 so far. No clogging yet
or cleaning the print head yet (knock on wood). I have my i950 for a year
by now, but only recently discovered the offer of canned profiles available
for purchase. (shame on you Canon for only providing a generic BJ2 profile).
I'm using a $25 profile from ddisoftware and my colors are pretty close to
screen image. Don't know about the longevity of the 3rd party ink that's why
I print my keepers on Ilford Classic.

Thanks

 

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On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 13:10:01 GMT, "Faiser" <faiser@earthlink.net>
wrote:

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>All,
>
>Since a couple of days, I get a heavy green cast on the bottom of all my
>prints from my i950.
>I looks almost like a green marker effect on the last inch of every page. A
>non printed region is not affected, so if I leave a bottom border of at
>least 1" the green cast is gone. The green stripe appears on any size
>paper. My driver is latest version 1.62.
>
>I doubt this has anything to do with choice of ink or paper. At the moment
>I have both original Canon cartridges and 3rd party ink in the print head.
>Papers I use is Canon Pro, Canon semi-gloss, Ilford Classic Gloss.
>
>I print using Photoshop and/or Qimage. Same effect.
>
>Any similar experiences?
>
>Apart from that, I've been very happy with my i950 so far. No clogging yet
>or cleaning the print head yet (knock on wood). I have my i950 for a year
>by now, but only recently discovered the offer of canned profiles available
>for purchase. (shame on you Canon for only providing a generic BJ2 profile).
>I'm using a $25 profile from ddisoftware and my colors are pretty close to
>screen image. Don't know about the longevity of the 3rd party ink that's why
>I print my keepers on Ilford Classic.
>
>Thanks


Have you tried a basic RGB profile? Have you physically checked your
ink levels?