topic Re: i860 will print photos but not text in Desktop Inkjet Printers

i860 will print photos but not text

paladincds — Wed, 22 Jul 2015 22:46:02 GMT

YESTERDAY, I replaced the 3e Black ink cartridge and printed a photo. Soon there after I tried to print a spreadsheet and got blank pages. Tried to print a Testpage. It printed the Windows 7 logo, only, no text!

The printer worked fine ealier in the day. Virus scan found no issues.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Dave

Re: i860 will print photos but not text

merrymary247 — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 00:26:04 GMT

Have you printed out a nozzle check yet?

http://kbsupport.cusa.canon.com/system/selfservice.controller?CONFIGURATION=1011&PARTITION_ID=1&secureFlag=false&TIMEZONE_OFFSET=&CMD=VIEW_ARTICLE&ARTICLE_ID=31873

Are all the patterns (especially the black grid at the top) present?

Re: i860 will print photos but not text

paladincds — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 04:15:17 GMT

The Nozzle Check printed two pages. The first page is printed only on the top half. All colors and black appear. The second page has just four rectangles on it. Three are black and one is cyan. Unfortunately, I have no idea if the output is correct.

The Head Alignment function generated an unidentified error and printed nothing,

Print Head Cleaning printed nothing as well. Is it supposed to?

The problem is that photo file types print and others do not regardless of which laptops initiates the print action.

Re: i860 will print photos but not text

merrymary247 — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 19:41:02 GMT

So was there a black grid pattern on the first page that printed out?

Re: i860 will print photos but not text

paladincds — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 04:05:07 GMT

If you mean black lines, or black rectangles, that form rows and columns--no.

Wish I had a scanner to post a picture of my output.

Re: i860 will print photos but not text

paladincds — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 04:25:22 GMT

I finally click the link you sent in your first message,

I have no ouput from the 3e cartridge as shown in the article. I will try the deep cleaning routine suggested. If that doesn't resolve my problem, I'll buy a new cartridge.