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Out of the blue this A.M. my Pixma iP4920 stopped printing colors.

rhess
Apprentice

Had been idle for a week, waiting for ink. Loaded new cyan in and tried printing a photo on glossy paper. Printer drew in the paper and acted like it was printing - took a good minute as usual - nothing printed. Using Mac OS10.11.3. Tried image on grayscale, low quality - printed OK.  I took all the cartridges out and reinserted them. Did normal clean from Utilities either two or three times and deep clean twice. Tried to print three colored lines of text - nothing on paper.  Have twice printed the test sheet - only black comes through. The inks are from two different suppliers and times, so I can't think it's the ink. I've gone through the options from the Canon utility and the print settings in the OS - everything looks normal.  Should mention that I've tried to print from the wired desktop computer and via WiFi on a laptop.  Same results.  Not sure about date of purchase.

Can a printer just up and lose the ability to print color?

Any thoughts appreciated!

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Patrick
Product Expert
Product Expert

Hi rhess,

 

Based on your description of the issue, it is recommended that you contact live technical support . There is NO charge for this call. Real time feedback of a live technical support call would be very beneficial in this case.

Please dial 1-866-261-9362, Monday - Friday 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. ET (excluding holidays). A Canon technical support representative will be able to resolve this issue faster.

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