There is still PGBK ink left, sure. Much good it will make me now...
Thanks a lot for tip no. 4!
Still, what should have been the proper procedure in this situation? Just soak and let it dry? No cleaning sessions afterwards?
Or, rather, seeing as there are lots of used 4200s floating around...
Hi folks!
I had a small problem with my InkTek replacement inks lately - that is, I've used the very last drops to refill my BK 'inkpot'. Should've said 'dregs', because the black nozzle immediately begun clogging up. After several deep cleaning sessions I decided to soak the printer head...
An small update, if you will. Now my test prints look like this:
Note the lower half of the letters. It used to be solid black not so long ago.
Also, my full-size prints how have this wide-ish discoloured streak running near the bottom of the page:
Could this be related to the previously...
Well, here's the service test print, if that's of any help.
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As I've said, increasing colour intensity in print options solved the issue with regular plain paper prints. High-quality prints on photo paper show no signs of insufficient cyan intensity at all.
According to this manual, the only time iP4200 is printing unidirectionally is when printing grayscale on envelopes.
However, it specifies that there indeed is a matter of the number of passes: 1 pass in normal colour and grayscale printing and 2 passes and more in borderless, photo paper, etc...
Tested that and found out that Duplex Printing is the culprit. Set 'on', and there are coloured striped 'grayscale' prints on both 32-bit WinXP and 64-bit Win7. Set 'off', and there's pure grayscale.
But why on Earth would this electric failure only manifest itself under certain conditions I described?! I mean, one moment it couldn't print a simple check pattern properly, but set to borderless it managed to print 100+ full colour pages, four hours straight, without a hitch. What is so...
I'm rather new to the world of refilling, but here's my story. In short, my printer has colour banding issues with cyan-based colours, but only under certain printing (software?) conditions.
I've a second-hand PIXMA iP4200 with a new print head. Never used it for colour printing, and never...