swee'pea99
Legendary Member
I suspect it might be dead, but I thought I'd post and see if anyone had any ideas.
I have a Canon large format (A3+) photo printer, which has gone wrong. One of the six nozzles isn't nozzling. I've tried the print head cleaning routines built into the machine (it has three, of rising levels of grunt), but without success. The manual says that if even routine C doesn't work, you need to replace the print head.
Now this print head (along with the machine) is in reality virtually new. This printer is meant for graphic design studios and the like, and should be quite capable of turning out literally hundreds of thousands of prints before going bad. This one's probably done no more than a few hundred. I suspect that what's happened is old ink has clogged it somehow.
Might there be a case for physical intervention? Like removing the print head and swooshing it round in distilled water, or isopropyl alcohol? (In which case, which would you recommend?) Or any other thoughts much appreciated.
Hope you can help. It really goes against the grain to send such a fine machine to landfill for such a tiny fault. (Oh, incidentally, Canon won't help. I've tried. But they don't support this machine any more, and neither does their appointed service agent.)
I have a Canon large format (A3+) photo printer, which has gone wrong. One of the six nozzles isn't nozzling. I've tried the print head cleaning routines built into the machine (it has three, of rising levels of grunt), but without success. The manual says that if even routine C doesn't work, you need to replace the print head.
Now this print head (along with the machine) is in reality virtually new. This printer is meant for graphic design studios and the like, and should be quite capable of turning out literally hundreds of thousands of prints before going bad. This one's probably done no more than a few hundred. I suspect that what's happened is old ink has clogged it somehow.
Might there be a case for physical intervention? Like removing the print head and swooshing it round in distilled water, or isopropyl alcohol? (In which case, which would you recommend?) Or any other thoughts much appreciated.
Hope you can help. It really goes against the grain to send such a fine machine to landfill for such a tiny fault. (Oh, incidentally, Canon won't help. I've tried. But they don't support this machine any more, and neither does their appointed service agent.)