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Ronald Martineau Posted on Dec 29, 2008
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Wide black streak on back of printed paper

I get a black streak that is 1/8 to 1/4 inch wide on the back side of the sheet that I am printing, in the same place each time it happens. Is this caused by the print head and why is it on the back side of the paper?

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  • Anonymous Jan 02, 2009

    Got the same problem. If I print a bunch of pages, eventually it goes away, but an hour later the annoying black streak will be on the back of the page. If I know I'm going to print something important, I'll do a "bottom cleaning" and then print immediately after. This will remedy the problem temporarily. I'm considering junking the thing.

  • Anonymous Jan 16, 2009

    I have the same problem. just started. tried cleaning the thing but it comes back. seems worse when using fast printing option. don't canon have a fix for it?

  • dale705 Jan 26, 2009

    I get this black streak on the back of the paper at random times, but very often -- at least one in 6 pages. It's approximately 1/4inch wide and starts almost 4 5/8 inches from the left edge. Sometimes it's a faint smudge, other times it nearly soaks through the other side. Bottom cleaning has no effect. I just cleaned the bottom 4 times, and the very next page had a severe streak.

  • Anonymous Jan 30, 2009

    Same problem here, replaced the black print cartridges because I thought they could be leaking, didn't fix the problem.

  • DSI LasVegas Feb 10, 2009

    We have three Pixma i4300s and one Pixma ip4200 at work, and I have a i4300 at home. At work ALL of the machines have started doing this, with one of them actually SPRAYING black ink out a foot! At home--where I've only used about two sets of ink the whole time I've owned it, I've started having the same problem.

    This is some sort of design flaw, and I think it's crazy that we should "live with it," given the high cost of the ink. It's ridiculous.

  • thompres Feb 11, 2009

    I am also having the same problem. I have tried changing the ink and doing the bottom plate cleaner thing but have cannot solve the problem.
    Can anyone help?

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Hi,

it is not directly coming from the head. Probably you are printing your photos without borders. This means that the printer prints slightly beyond he paper. As a consequence is sprays ink on the mechanics and after a while it starts to smear on the back of the paper.

This phenomenon is even mentioned in the printer manual (kind of caution when selecting borderless printing).

There is a menu item in the printer utilities that lets you clean the printer mechanics with a folded paper. I tried this, but it helps only little.

I have the same effect on a pixma IP 4500 , and I live with it.

Cheers

Critter


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