I've had my Pixma Pro9000 since 2009. Always loved it's printing quaility, and it's been completely trouble-free until now. Sure, ink costs per print are ridiculous, but the printed pictures are beautiful (I use Pro Platinum paper, again not cheap). ...
Well, I did finally manage to contact a printer repair place here in LA. Turns out the guy used to be a Canon tech, so he was very knowledgeable Seemed capable, except that he charges $130/hour plus parts. And of course any estimate costs money too, ...
@jrhoffman75 wrote:To me the BK, PC and PM blocks do not look right.Do you have the same printer? Can you post what your nozzle test results look like? I'm thinking I may just have gotten my 12 years worth of printing out of this investment, and perh...
In response to your request, here are the series of nozzle test outputs (most under Win7, but one under Win10 after "deep cleaning". Here is what the pattern check says it should look like: And here are the actual nozzle test outputs. All but one wa...
I even booted to Win10 (dual boot with Win7 on the same physical machine) just to see if it was a software/driver problem, or if the color problem persists. No change. All indications are a hardware problem. In passing I mention that the Y, C and PC ...
Final example. This one is very good because it shows an original that had natural skin tone, gray hair, blue T-shirt, green background, etc. Here is the original JPG taken with an actual Nikon camera. Here is the print of that JPG, made about 9 yea...