Red lines keep printing through all text of my print-outs. I've tried everything suggested in the manual such as cleaning and alignment an I still get red lines wherever there is text.

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Anonymous

There is a spong that catches the ink when doing a head clean. I took some Q tips t soak up some of the ink from within the spong. Try to clean as much as you can from the spong. Even use a soft rag iif possible. You also may have to change the brand of ink that is being used.

Posted on Sep 06, 2007

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