IP5300 PGBK issues

[Sherden]

Hi All,
I am having problems with my new IP5300: today after printing a B\W page the printer stuck with the alarm light flashing orange. I did not noticed how times it flashed. Just turned out the printer and after a little bit turned it on again.

The light was not flashing anymore, i did a Noozle check and results were as follows:



The PGBK showed a strange regualr pattern of missing ink, making make me think of the worst: printing head issues.

Any suggestion or hints?

Thank you in advance for your help

 

[The Hat]

When you get the Orange flashing light and then you get a very poor PGBK nozzle check that can only mean one thing so you’re right to think negative, because the answer is a new print head I am afraid.

You can go on using your current one indefinitely by changing your Media setting to Matte output until you decide to get the new head..

 

[Sherden]

Couple of months ago my trusted IP4300 died (printhead failure). I bought this one couple of months ago and now the same old story...

I'll try cleaning the head contacts to see if anything changes...

Luckily enough I bought also a new-one Epson xp-810. Good enough but it seems it "drinks" ink. Printed around 30 or 40 pages and the black ink is about to finish..... and not as easy as the canon to refill...

 

[martin0reg]

This sort of regular pattern (of pgbk) indicates an electronical damage - at least of the printhead's logic board or chips. Now this kind of failure COULD jump over to the printer's mainboard... and such a mainboard COULD damage a new printhead too... It's a canon disease, some say there is a protection circuit missing to avoid this kind of "contagion" in canon home printers