I only use Canon cartridges. This line is heavy when printing the first page and then fades out on subsequent pages which leads me to think it is leaking over and over. I have tried all recommended cleaning methods
-   i too have the same problem the ink is pretty wet on the back & is becoming unusable now. great printer but it'll have to go if i can't sort this out tried the cleaning, deep cleaning, print head alignment, bottom plate cleaning, clean paper feed rollers and I've had a cotton bud to manually clean the insides. But makes no difference it seems to be coming from the Black PGBK5 cartridge, so i replaced it with an old empty one but no difference. didn't understand the advice given on 23/2 by leo can leo or someone else perhaps explain what to do? -   martynho
Feb 28, 2008
-   I have the same problem :-(-   Guest
Jan 21, 2008
-   the same problem is now appearing on 3 computers from a work group-   yoronu
Jan 11, 2008
-   I too have the same thick black line on the back of the paper. I tried to open the printer, since it looks like some ink-saturated sponge that needs to be cleaned. But . . I dindn't succeed in removing the top of the printer, and so I wasn't able to discover any sponge through the existing openings.
Please help!-   Dutch boy
Hi , look some used injection cyrene to suck up the used ink , take cover suck up all ink by reversing injection put in clean jar .after all ink finished cover it try to print from first time some print some black mark after tthree or four times maybe no more.
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