bad colors by Canon S630

[Arnold Jansen]

My Canon printer S630 printed very well for a few years, but now all
looks more red than normal (or too little blue maybe?)
I changed the inkcartridges, cleaned the printheads a few times,
downloaded and installed the driver again (WIN XP driver version 1.5),
printed by different programs and different pictures and from 2
different computers (printer is connected to LPT1 but shared over the
network) ..... I am out of ideas, other than: buy a new printer, but
.... there ought to be an explanation, isn't it?
Btw, there is also a fat blue line near the bottom of every page we
print on photopaper (half inch wide, over the whole page left to
right).
All the other types of paper don't print this line, but all papertypes
do have this wrong "reddish" look.
Hope somebody is able to help or suggest things !

 

[Chuck]

Replacing the printer is likely to be less expensive than repair of the
S630.
The symptoms you describe may be a combination of mechanical wear, and a
failure in the electronics.
That said, it is possible that something is screwed up in the windows system
on the host PC.