I’ve a Canon MP130 which is about 3 year old max.
It prints text fine, but when I print pics on 6 x 4 photos paper (from Tesco and Lidl) it prints harsh, black streaks on the paper, ruining the picture and wasting the (cheap) ink.
I’ve tried all the maintenence on my printer properties and cleaned the nozzles with a cotton bud.
Any ideas? Could it be the cheap paper or the cheap ink….if any…?
Thanks
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Answer:
1) To clean the nozzle you will need to use the cleaning programme in your maintenance tab of your printer. A cotton bud won’t clean it. A nozzle clean is not the same as a print head clean there should be two sepertate programmes for these.
2) It could be that you’ve not set the paper type in the paper settings in your printer to the correct type. I always set mine to other photo paper even if I’ve gloss pic paper as I find it prints better. There is a menu of paper types accessible via the preferences menu on your printer menu.
3) If the ink prints text fine then unless you have used pigmented ink when it takes dye based ink then that should not be the trouble.
4) Sometimes streaks on photos are a sign that your ink is low.
That's all I have the ability to thing off of the top of my head working with what you state.
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Your waste ink pad might be full, using the maintenance features of the printer will only make it worse. Don't clean the print-head as this will, again, only compound your problem. I have a MP 160 and the ink pad is under where the nozzles rest. On mine I 'tell' the printer that I'm going to change a cartridge so that the head moves away from the pad, then with some kitchen cloth clean the pad as ideal as possible with a dabbing action. This has worked for me in the past as I do a shed-load of printing. If you search the net for MPTOOL you can reset you ink-levels via the eeprom on your printer and refill away 'til your hearts content. Have had the same cartridges in my printer for over 18 months with no loss of quality, even on the cheap paper. On MPTOOL make sure you read thoroughly about Low Level Mode, forget about service mode. Good luck, mail me if any probs. Toodles…
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yes it very wel could be the cheap ink
AND no its not the paper that has nothing to do with it…
try some expensiver ink or purchase a new printer.. i no they cost a lot but who nos it could even be ur printer nowfunctioning
you could even spare a few buck and do it at a store