Burt said:
Derry - Pay no attention to measekite. He follows every one of my posts
with criticism meant to demean my responses.
You do a much better job than me.
He is our very own newsgroup
troll pain in the butt.
you are a troll pain in the butt.
He has a pathologic committment to steer people
away from aftermarket inks, something neither you nor I mentioned.
I DO NOT GIVE A CRAP ON WHO WANTS TO GET TAKEN AND CLOG THEIR PRINTERS.
WHEN THE STINKING VENDORS PROPERLY TELL THE CUSTOMER WHAT THEY ARE
SELLING YOU THEY CAN TRACT THE CLAIMS AND DETERMINE WHAT HAS A GREATER
TENDENCY TO CLOG THEM MAYBE I WILL LOOK AT IT AGAIN.
YOU KNOW (ESPECIALLY NOTABLE IN PREFILLED CARTS) THAT APPROPRIATE
INFORMATION OF WHAT IS INSIDE THE CART, WHAT BRAND IS PREFILLED, AND
THAT ALL INFORMATION IS PROPERLY DISCLOSED IS NOT FORTHCOMING. IT JUST
DOES NOT EXIST.
NOW DOES IT.
I DO NOT EXPECT AN HONEST ANSWER. JUST SOME GOBBLYGOOK TALK AROUND
BULLSHIT. MAYBE HE OWNS STOCK IN THESE VENDORS. WHO KNOWS. I FIND IT
HARD TO BELIEVE HALF THE STUFF I READ HERE EXCEPT:
THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD CLOGS ARE EITHER CURRENTLY
USING OR HAVE USED AFTERMARKET INK AND CANNOT EVEN TELL ANYBODY WHO THE
MFG/FORMULATER WAS SO OTHERS COULD AVOID IT. THAT IS WHAT THE VENDORS
ARE AFRAID OF.
That
might be the subject for another discussion, but you asked about your
printer malfunction and we should stick to that subject. When you say
"replace the print head" did you mean to remove and replace the same print
head that came with the unit to see that it is securely and correctly in
place?
AH THE TECHNICIAN. CALL CANON. THEY WILL ASK THE RIGHT QUESTION AND
CAN HELP YOU. THAT SEEMS LOGICAL ADVICE. THEY HAVE AN 800 SUPPORT
NUMBER AND IT IS FREE. WHY WOULD YOU WANTG TO ASK THESE JERKS WHEN YOU
CAN GET FREE REAL SUPPORT.
Did they ask you anything about your ink cartridges? If you aren't
experienced with these printers you may have a problem with how you prepared
and inserted them.
NOT IF HE READ THE MANUAL. EVEN THE SHORT MINI MANUAL.
Are they securely in place and locked down with a
"click"? Did you take the tape off the top of the air vent? Did you leave
the tape covering the remainder of the air vent passage on which the label
is printed? These may seem to be simple questions, but inexperienced people
have made errors in how they install the cartridges.
JUST READ THE INSTRUCTIONS
Without an open air
vent the cartridge can not deliver ink for printing. If you open the entire
air vent area by removing too much tape you risk permitting too much ink to
flow from any cartridge that has been improperly prepared and flooding the
area under that cartridge and causing problems with printing.
To evaluate very evident banding or vertical strips, you don't have to use
any special paper. For very subtle banding or stripes you will need to use
some sort of photo or coated paper so the ink doesn't sink into the paper
fibers and spread, thus obscuring the printed pattern. Did you run a nozzle
check? That will tell you which nozzle(s) are malfunctioning. I believe
you were also supposed to run a cleaning cycle to get the ink flowing
initially when doing the setup. By the way, it is not unheard of to get a
faulty cartridge from the printer manufacturer. Rare, but possible. The
nozzle check will probably tell you where the problem lies.
Depending on where you bought it you may have a limited period of time to
return it and get another. Otherwise you will have to deal with Canon for
them to honor your warranty.
DUH - I THINK MOST CUSTOMERS KNOW THIS
And -- contrary to what Measekite says about the Nifty Forum (on which I am
an occasional moderator)
NOW HE IS A MODERATOR. NOW IS THAT MODERATER BURT OR MODERATOR
FOTOFREEK. HE DOES USE BOTH NAMES AND MAYBE OTHERS THAT I DO NOT KNOW
ABOUT.
there are people there who are great at helping you
to pinpoint the source of your problem.
OH YEAH, THEY ARE BETTER THAN CANON WHO HAS ELEVATED SUPPORT.
