Printer Problem

Sudden

Sudden

Sudden

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I have a Canon Pixma i3000 and it was working great until al il while ago.

For some reason, it began that colours were wrong, so I replaced the cartridges which it was saying were "low" even though they weren't empty. No luck. After replacing the blue, yellow and black, the colours still wern't right, so replaced the magenta as well, even though the tank had at least half of the ink left. Still no luck :( From what I can make out, it's just red that won't print. Tried out a nozzle check, which is fine, but the colours aren't right in that either. Black, blue and yellow are fine, but the pink/red colours don't print. This is true even with the new magenta cartridge.

Any advice?
 
Sounds like you have a blocked print head, its not built into the cartridge.

Have you done a print head clean deep clean. Usually its one of the options in the printer preferences.

You may have to flush it out with a proper cleaning cartridge.

I'm a professional printer and use a lot of large format ink jets, usually when one colour drops out its the print head thats become clogged. Do a search for print head cleaning and your specific printer.

At worst you may need to buy this part: "Bubble Jet Head Unit (qy6-0064)" its for your printer. If you look hard enough you will be able to find one for about £25... or you could try to blag one from Canon.

I'm assuming that your on generic inks as this usually causes the problem.
If not get on the phone to Canon and push for the spare part.

Hope this helps. Gunner :)
 
Ok, this is wierd. Hadn't done cleaning, and just tried it. It won't happen :s I tried both clean and deep clean, and it says its happening, but then status goes back to normal and printer never prints :s

No, never used generic inks. Only stuff from Canon ordered off A online shop =/ paid a fair amount more to ensure I used only canon.

Any ideas as to why the cleaning won't happen? I have tried turning the printer on and off etc. no difference.

Thanks for your help :)
 
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Nevermind. It would seem it doesnt need to print for cleaning :p Nother nozzelc heck, things seem fine :)

Thanks gunner :D
 
Did it make a noise when it was going through its cleaning cycle.

Usually there is a whirring sound and thats the clean in process. It doesn't actually print anything afterwards, you have to manually order a nozzle check like you did.

Glad it worked.
 
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