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Re: [Digital BW] Parallel coloured lines on print

2005-05-15 by Walt Mucha

>Looking at the printer from the front top, the print head is
making very fine, 
>parallel, coloured  lines on the left-hand side of the print.
  There are four sets 
>of two, each set spaced about 5/16" apart, one set for each
colour.  Starting 
>from the left they are: black-light black, cyan-light cyan,
magenta-light 
>magenta, yellow-light yellow.   Just one set of each; none on
the right side.
>
>I did a search under pizza wheel marks, but these don't seem
to be the same.  
>I can see no marks before the paper goes under the print
head, and then the 
>lines appear before the paper gets to the rollers.  
>
>They first showed up yesterday, but they went away andI
managed to get one 
>or two good prints, but now I'm just trying to get the last
one done, and I'm way 
>past my deadline on these prints.  Can anyone help with this,
please?

You didn't say what printer but, if it's a 1270/80 then the
printhead controller is bad and that's only going to get
worse. If it's under warranty then you have no problem. If
it's not then it's time for a new printer.



Regards, Walt

http://www.kauaiphotos.biz

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