Hi, It seems that my printhead on my Canon TS8050 is failing judging by what I am seeing on the cyan printout: As you can see, the cyan nozzles are gradually failing exactly towards the middle of the head - the nozzle check printout shows exactly th...
Hi,My canon printer MG5650 is double printing text when using the Pigment Ink. If I force it to use the Dye Ink (i.e. Photo Mode) the printout is sharp so surely it cannot be the Encoder (timing) Strip otherwise all printing would be the same whatev...
Hi,This may help:see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aedPja3XL_IIt's a you tube video that shows how to carry out a Canon Printer Hard Reset - might not work for all printers though and do at your own risk. Did it to my MG5650 hoping it would rectify...
Hi,Is your print out double print / blurry when using the PGBK ink (black pigment cartridge) but not when you set the font color to anything else other then black. What are your print outs like if in 'Printing Preferences' you set the printer to 'Pho...
Hi,My MG5650 has exactly the same problem and if you search on the forum you will find that this problem affects a number of different printer models and the only solution you are likely to get is to clean the print head encoding (timing) strip. Howe...
I brought up the exact same issue recently on this forum, see http://community.usa.canon.com/t5/Printer-Multifunction-Support/Canon-MG5650-Page-Black-Text-Double-Printing-blurry-text/td-p/217843 This issue only affects when using Page Black ink and w...
Hi,Thanks you for your reply, but surely if it was the encoder strip it will affect all ink and not only the pigment ink. Black Dye Ink, for example, printouts show no printing anomalies.Also getting to the encoder strip on this printer is all but im...