04-20-2026
11:32 AM
- last edited on
04-21-2026
10:04 AM
by
Danny
Hello there, I have been trying to print some pictures of flowers and there seems to be an issue with the the gray, red, and magenta colors. Attached are pictures from the printer tape, the print head test and the picture I am trying to print. I did a regular head clean, and then a deep head clean and nothing has changed in the colors. Not sure what to doPicture trying to print
What picture printed
Ink Ribbon
Head test print after regular clean on right and deep clean on left.
04-20-2026 11:45 AM
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04-20-2026 12:13 PM - edited 04-20-2026 12:19 PM
Your printer is not printing magenta during the deep cleaning. Try a nozzle check to see what that shows. If any color is still off, then I suggest you do an ink flush procedure, it removes bubbles in the tubes and gets the ink flowing again. Just so you know, it does take quite a bit of ink to do this. Here is the procedure:
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