Very Strange Behavior for Canon IP 5200

[cannonvictim]

My old IP 5200 has printed several boxes of rheems of paper. For the last few days I have been trying to make photo prints from my digital camera and using a flat bed scanner with an old BW print. My camera prints have a deep yellow/orange cast and the black and white print refuses to copy BW. It has a pink cast over all and very exaggerated eyebrows and lips. I ran a nozzel check and found that the cyan color band was missing. The cartrige was nearly new and full. I first ran a cleaning cycle and rechecked--still no good. Then I ran a deep cleaning cycle--still no good. After repeated cleaning, deep cleaning installing a new cyan cartridge and nozzel alignments I tried the priliminary check button and surprize I got cyan patterns with some droppouts to the right side of blocks. When I tried the regular nozzel check I still had no cyan patterns and a lot of the black blocks were pink or yellowish colored. Any guesses as to what is going on? Oh, I use refilled carts done by Lazermonks.

 

[ghwellsjr]

What is the preliminary check button?

It sounds like you have a cyan ink flow problem. It may be internal to the print head or it could be defective cartridges. To determine which one, I would get a Canon OEM cartrdige and see if that solves the problem.

 

[cannonvictim]

I am ready to give up and go for a new printer if this is a major problem. i have some OEM ink that I will try, but if that doesn't work I have over a hundred bucks worth of refill carts that i will lose unless there is a Canon printer that still uses the CLI8 and 5BK refills. In other posts at this forum I have found info about using Windex on the "pads" to clean pathways, but without pictures it is hard for this old nerd to figure out how to get to where this is done. Maybe someone can give me a link? Thanks, Also I don't have any Windex, but do have an aerosol spray glass cleaner that I got at Costco. Maybe I could just spray that somewhere? Thanks

 

[ghwellsjr]

You don't want to spray the window cleaner into your printer, that would be dangerous, but as long as cleaning results in a good nozzle check, your purge system, including the pads are probably working just fine. Try your OEM carts first.

 

[qwertydude]

I put the windex in a dropper bottle and just drop ink on the printhead upside down it ends up soaking all the way in through the printhead and even drips out the back. Then I gently blot the printhead on lint free paper towels. This ensures you don't soak the electronics in the printhead and cause possible damage.

 

[cannonvictim]

I ordered a new printhead from Canon. It only cost less than 60 bucks and looked like the easy way out of a dilemma. Most likely to fix whatever caused the problem. Now I need to search for a post telling how to dissasemble an IP5200 at this forum. If anyone has a link please add it to this thread. Otherwise I will try to search on my own. Thanks.

 

[ghwellsjr]

Why do you want to disassemble your iP5200? Replacing the print head does not require disassembly, it is as easy as replacing ink cartridges. You first take out the cartridges, then you lift the (usually) grey lever on one side of the carriage and lift the print head out. Reverse the process to put the new one in.

 

[cannonvictim]

Great! Thanks ghwellsjr. When it arrives I can do that. I will also get a bottle of Windex and soak the pads good and let it stand a day or so before I put in the new heads. That should take care of most things unless the purge pump is plugged/broke.