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Danny
My Mom has a Canon I320 inkjet printer and she pointed out a recently
occurring problem. On a printed page, there is a blackish streak on
the leading left corner of the page and a smaller streak on the
trailing left corner. The ink looks as though it has been absorbed(as
opposed to printed) into the page as if the left hand corner has run
through a droplet or two of black or multicolor ink.
I believe the printer parks the color and black cartridges at the
right hand side of the printer and this is where they perform their
cleaning cycles(flushing ink through the jets to make sure they are
clear before printing commences). My theory is that the trough or
sponge or whatever the cartridge nozzles spray into has become filled
or saturated and that the excess is now trickling out into the paper
path. Paper feeds from the back of the printer and the left edge of
each page travels right by the area where the cartridges park during
their cleaning cycle. Is anyone familiar with the disassembly of
inkjet printers, especially Canons, and if I can somehow get at this
"cleaning area" trough or sponge and empty(chip out more like it) or
replace it? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. My Mom has used
the printer for quite a few years and I know I have bought her a half
dozen or more of each of the tri-color and black cartridges and she
prints a page or so every few days...in other words not often enough
or not enough pages so that the cleaning cycle occurs before every
single page she prints. That's a lot of ink building up somewhere.
occurring problem. On a printed page, there is a blackish streak on
the leading left corner of the page and a smaller streak on the
trailing left corner. The ink looks as though it has been absorbed(as
opposed to printed) into the page as if the left hand corner has run
through a droplet or two of black or multicolor ink.
I believe the printer parks the color and black cartridges at the
right hand side of the printer and this is where they perform their
cleaning cycles(flushing ink through the jets to make sure they are
clear before printing commences). My theory is that the trough or
sponge or whatever the cartridge nozzles spray into has become filled
or saturated and that the excess is now trickling out into the paper
path. Paper feeds from the back of the printer and the left edge of
each page travels right by the area where the cartridges park during
their cleaning cycle. Is anyone familiar with the disassembly of
inkjet printers, especially Canons, and if I can somehow get at this
"cleaning area" trough or sponge and empty(chip out more like it) or
replace it? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. My Mom has used
the printer for quite a few years and I know I have bought her a half
dozen or more of each of the tri-color and black cartridges and she
prints a page or so every few days...in other words not often enough
or not enough pages so that the cleaning cycle occurs before every
single page she prints. That's a lot of ink building up somewhere.