Monkey Shoulder
Getting Fingers Dirty
- Joined
- Feb 25, 2017
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- Location
- Oxford UK
- Printer Model
- Canon Pixma iP7250
Hello this is my first post, and of course, it is a problem...
My printer, a Canon iP3000, will not print in Black until it has been through a few cleaning cycles and possibly a couple of "deep cleaning" procedures as well. The machine then works fine for a few hours, but the next day, it will have "dried up" again and need to go through cleaning and a few practice prints until the black comes good. The colours ( C/M/Y ) are fine, and print straight away.
It first started happening a couple of months ago, around Xmas 2016.
I don't use the printer regularly, but in the past I have always been able to fire it up and it print straight away even if it had not been used for a week.
I have been refilling with "Jet-Tec" ink since I purchased the printer about five years ago.
I discovered your forum when I was searching for a solution on-line and have already tried some of the techniques that your contributors recommend. I have tried soaking my print head in water overnight as described by Mike Boesen on his site.
http://mboesen.net/hardware/print_heads/print_heads.html
and after being led to the excellent druckerchannel site by your PeterBJ http://www.druckerchannel.de/artikel.php?ID=1831&seite=5&t=how_to_exchange_sponges
I have disassembled the machine and have cleaned the pads that sit under the heads with the acetone based cleaning fluid that comes with the ink refill kits.
My printer still has this problem. Is there anything more I can try?
Monk
My printer, a Canon iP3000, will not print in Black until it has been through a few cleaning cycles and possibly a couple of "deep cleaning" procedures as well. The machine then works fine for a few hours, but the next day, it will have "dried up" again and need to go through cleaning and a few practice prints until the black comes good. The colours ( C/M/Y ) are fine, and print straight away.
It first started happening a couple of months ago, around Xmas 2016.
I don't use the printer regularly, but in the past I have always been able to fire it up and it print straight away even if it had not been used for a week.
I have been refilling with "Jet-Tec" ink since I purchased the printer about five years ago.
I discovered your forum when I was searching for a solution on-line and have already tried some of the techniques that your contributors recommend. I have tried soaking my print head in water overnight as described by Mike Boesen on his site.
http://mboesen.net/hardware/print_heads/print_heads.html
and after being led to the excellent druckerchannel site by your PeterBJ http://www.druckerchannel.de/artikel.php?ID=1831&seite=5&t=how_to_exchange_sponges
I have disassembled the machine and have cleaned the pads that sit under the heads with the acetone based cleaning fluid that comes with the ink refill kits.
My printer still has this problem. Is there anything more I can try?
Monk