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If you cant test it, either take a risk and buy it (negotiating the price), or don't. It's like buying a used car without being permitted to take a test drive.

If it really bothers you, soak up some of the ink (carefully) with toilet tissue or equal.

I remember buying packs of 50 sheets of 8 1/2 x 10 matte for $1.00. Keep an eye on their ads, the stuff frequently goes on sale

I believe some of it's made in Germany. I like Staple's Photo Matte.

Staples?

Kogation, another reason to consider "Night" or "Quite" mode in a Canon driver, and consider extending the Drying Time between multi-page prints...

Did you recently change ANY carts? I'd also suspect the ink, not just the printhead. It would be great to force a Service Test Print from a Canon Pro-100 (where every nozzle can be individually examined through the "grids". Anyone ever been able to do that?

Since we have had a recent report of a purge system issue with an Epson printer, you might try flooding the purge pads (the station where the printhead parks) with Original Windex to see if you can establish a standing "puddle" on the pads, put the printer through a cleaning cycle, and see if...

First time I've heard of an Epson Purge Unit failure...sounds quite similar to some Canon failures (typically loose or clogged tubes). As I said, it WAS air (lack of ink in the nozzle chamber). I did not expect a purge system issue with an Epson. Now I know...

Greetings back, from where you can wear tee shirts and shorts for 2 weeks during the year (stratman knows). Welcome to the forum.

If the pattern changes from nozzle check to nozzle check, it's air.

Air...wait 24 hours, try again and post..

A nozzle check print on a PRO-100 (and most Canon consumer printers), prints light blocks of pastel colors, that "should" look completely featureless if good. No streaking or banding should be visible at all. A service test print (easily to print on older Canons) would show EACH NOZZLE'S...

If you have traces if the PBK segments showing, your print head is working. The ink channels in the head are probably clogged with PBK ink that has solidified. A careful external cleaning program may unclog it. Another possibilty is the purge system for PBK is also clogged, IF there is a...

Well, here's the frontal view...

Oh, for the days when just a series of button pushes did the trick!

I cannot elucidate on a "fatal" error..except for a "failure to power up" (and a new print head did NOT resolve it, (Canon i9900). I think it's "casual", not indicated with any error "readout", but others can chime in.

The most common "fatal error" is the frequent situation where a failure causes the printer to not even power up! It is common for some diagnostics on the main board to to prevent an "All-OK" signal being sent to the power supply to fully power up (without removing the print head or some other...

The missing nozzles on the Pigment Black are probably not "burned-out". I would expect that would be revealed as random lines missing from the grid on a true nozzle test print. As I've said before, one failed conductor or semiconductor on the nozzle die is probably all it takes to wipe out the...

If you look microscopically at the LSI die that IS the nozzle plate itself, you will see a significant amount of micro circuitry contained on the LSI die. Since there are only 40 (+/-) contacts on the print head assembly (several of which just monitor print head temperature) to control several...