texture on my inkjet photo prints

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Recently, my Canon S820 photo inkjet printer started print the color
green with a interesting texture (actually not so interesting, because
I want to get rid of it). Instead of printing silky smooth green, I get
a texture shown in the attached pictures. It almost looks like ink clot
. . . does anyone have any idea what's causing this problem?

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Chieh
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Probably clogged orifices in the printhead. Check the owner's manual for the cleaning method.
 
I had a similar problem with my Canon S900 printer after buying some
cheap photo paper at Sam's Club. Instead of the ink soaking into the
paper, it's pooling and not drying fast enough. Luckily, I knew it
wasn't the printer since I had already printed a lot of pictures on
other paper. If you haven't tried it yet, I would try a better brand
of paper.
 
Thanks, I thought the same. So I have tried a variety of papers . . .
Kodak, Fuji, Office Depot, Staples . . . etc . . . They all have
different degrees of texture . . . I guess maybe I should pick up some
Canon papers and try it out.

The funny things is that the texture didn't start occurring till
recently . . . And these are all the same papers that I have used
before . . .

Chieh
 
Thanks, I thought the same. So I have tried a variety of papers . . .
Kodak, Fuji, Office Depot, Staples . . . etc . . . They all have
different degrees of texture . . . I guess maybe I should pick up some
Canon papers and try it out.

The funny things is that the texture didn't start occurring till
recently . . . And these are all the same papers that I have used
before . . .

Chieh
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I had something similar with my S820.
I did the following in: Printing Preferences set-up select Main/
Click Print Adviser/ then Print Top Quality / then select type of
paper.
There was a noticeable improvement but not pristine printing like it
used to be.
Waiting for the ip6600d to come down in price.
 
Chieh,

I see a few problems with your sample. One, there is some banding
occurring, probably indicating partially clogged or dirty head.

The second problem is probably as mentioned incompatible paper type.
The paper and ink technologies often need to work together. Some papers
just are not designed for the type of ink used. If it is a paper you
normally don't have problems with, it still could be a bad batch.

Or you may be applying too much ink for that paper to handle, causing a
type of reticulated look, as the ink pools.


Art
 
hmmm... did you make any driver changes or are you using a different
setting for the dithering pattern? It almost looks like you are using a
screen setting rather than a dithering pattern for printing, might be a
setting in the driver you changed?.

Art
 
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