Canon Pixma iP 3000 color problems

Dear All,

I've had my Canon Pixma iP 3000 for a long, long time and its done a wonderful job so far. Now suddenly it has problems printing color correctly. Everything looks sepia or orange-ish or red-ish...

I did all possible cleaning routines and even changed all the color cartridges but nothing changed. The nozzle check in black and CMY looks fine except that the on the left side where it should print 2 black and gray rectangles with the letters "6C", "6C", "6M", "6M" and "6Y" in-between, those letters and rectangles are light and dark sepia-brown instead of gray and black. The other long, horizontal color bars have the right color and look fine, though.


Any ideas?

Thank you for your help in advance!

Kurt

 

Sounds like printhead contamination or a printhead issue where barriers between colors have corroded.
Are the cleaning pads really saturated? Does it clear up any if you run a dozen prints and run some ink through?
Try cleaning the cleaning pad if you can and then running a few cleaning cycles.

 

Thanks for the reply.
The reason for all those problems was quite simple. I erroneously bought a photo cyan cartridge instead of the required "just" cyan.
As soon as I put in a cyan cartridge everything was fine

Kurt