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Derry - Pay no attention to measekite. He follows every one of my posts
with criticism meant to demean my responses. He is our very own newsgroup
troll pain in the butt. He has a pathologic committment to steer people
away from aftermarket inks, something neither you nor I mentioned. That
might be the subject for another discussion, but you asked about your
printer malfunction and we should stick to that subject. When you say
"replace the print head" did you mean to remove and replace the same print
head that came with the unit to see that it is securely and correctly in
place? Did they ask you anything about your ink cartridges? If you aren't
experienced with these printers you may have a problem with how you prepared
and inserted them. Are they securely in place and locked down with a
"click"? Did you take the tape off the top of the air vent? Did you leave
the tape covering the remainder of the air vent passage on which the label
is printed? These may seem to be simple questions, but inexperienced people
have made errors in how they install the cartridges. Without an open air
vent the cartridge can not deliver ink for printing. If you open the entire
air vent area by removing too much tape you risk permitting too much ink to
flow from any cartridge that has been improperly prepared and flooding the
area under that cartridge and causing problems with printing.
To evaluate very evident banding or vertical strips, you don't have to use
any special paper. For very subtle banding or stripes you will need to use
some sort of photo or coated paper so the ink doesn't sink into the paper
fibers and spread, thus obscuring the printed pattern. Did you run a nozzle
check? That will tell you which nozzle(s) are malfunctioning. I believe
you were also supposed to run a cleaning cycle to get the ink flowing
initially when doing the setup. By the way, it is not unheard of to get a
faulty cartridge from the printer manufacturer. Rare, but possible. The
nozzle check will probably tell you where the problem lies.
Depending on where you bought it you may have a limited period of time to
return it and get another. Otherwise you will have to deal with Canon for
them to honor your warranty.
And -- contrary to what Measekite says about the Nifty Forum (on which I am
an occasional moderator) there are people there who are great at helping you
to pinpoint the source of your problem.
"derry" <derrydavis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1121728725.027881.306870@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Am having problems with a brand new Canon Pixma MP760 printing vertical
> strips on every page, both color and b/w. I've called tech support and
> the last two answers I got were 1.) replace the print head and 2.) take
> it to a service center. I've replaced the print head. Before taking it
> to the service center I thought I'd check here to see if anyone else
> has experienced this problem. Apologies if this is the wrong group, but
> I didn't see one specific to Canon printers. Thanks in advance,
> -derry
>
. I bought the printer new less than a month
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