White streaks in print outs

Defective cartridge.

If an inkjet printer gives white streaks where it should be black, it means the ink is very low, or there is dirt under the nozzles preventing it from printing properly, or, in the case of non original cartridges, ink might be leaking which prevents the bubbles of ink to squirt onto the page.

If the streaks are black where it should be white, is sounds like some dust or fluff below the cartridge leaves ink smears on the page.

The line is probably not from the ink cartridges or nozzles (assuming regular printing doesn't streak). Streaks on copies and transmitted faxes are usually due to dirt or problems on the scanner unit. First clean the flat bed of the scanne. If you have an automatic document feeder, clean that.

Clean with a lint free cloth moistened with a little water or glass cleaner. Make sure no foreign objects are in the ADF path or on the glass. For pictures see the Lexmark support site: http://support.lexmark.com/index?page=product&linkSelected=node0&locale=EN&userlocale=EN_US#1. Then enter "streak on copy" - the solution comes up in a pop up.

If the streak is shrinking, then copy a blank white piece of paper to identify where to clean further. Try scanning another page with a small mark on it. (These are particularly helpful for cleaning the ADF.)

If the mark occurs when you print, then check if you have a damaged cartridge or other ink that has spilled inside the printer.

I hope this helps.

Cindy Wells

One or more of the drums may be defective. Swap the black with another color and print a document. If that color printed the charectors ok, then continue the test with the other drums each taking a turn in the Black drum position until you find the bad drum.

Clean your printer head and nozzle with printer utility software. Hope it would solve your problem, if not, change black cartridge. Thanks.

Had a similar problem. Tried lost of things. In my case, the streaks cleared up after I cleaned the toner drum.

If a hard reset of printer electronics does not restore proper operation there may be an inherent defect in the unit causing this.

You may running out of the colored ink.. just make sure you change it before it runs out.. make sure you buy a colored ink for Canon Pixma iP1600.. the cartridge of the colored ink of your printer has a number infront of it.. eg: Canon CI-41

ok..save the window..those print heads are clogged, and good. You MAY need to run that print cleaning at least 8 times, to get that gook out of there.

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You should try changing the toner cartridges first. There may be something stuck in it causing the noise and streaking