Leaving black streaks down paper? Ink cartridge

Defective cartridge.

Hi

Just remove the ink cartridge. Clean the print head by a soft cloth with rubbing alcohol to remove some sticky or ink residue. Then rub the printhead into a plain paper until ink flows. Then run the print nozzle for 2 times.

I hope it helps you. Regards

I was going to suggest removing the fuser and looking at the rollers, but on this printer it's a major operation.
Instead let's run the half test. Put paper in the manual feed tray(tray 1). Print to the printer. When the sheet of paper gets pulled about 3/4 of the way in, open the top cover. Pull out the toner cartridge. Look down at the paper. Does it have a streak down the right side? If yes, replace the toner, if no, have the fuser replaced.

Run a half test.
Put paper in the manual feed tray(tray 1).
Send a print job to printer. When the paper gets 3/4 of the way into the printer, open the cover. Pull out the toner cartridge, look down at the sheet inside the printer. Does it have the streak on the left side? If yes...your toner cartridge is bad. If no...replace the fuser.

this symptom signals blocked printhead, you need to do bit of cleaning, not necessarily cahnge the cartridge.

follow this procedure:
1. download test page with alternative from this site black:
http://www.inkjetcartridges.com/_black-print-test.html

and colour:
http://www.inkjetcartridges.com/_color-print-test.html

2. print page each and assess the colour and streaks. if on the beginnig of the page you do have errors and on the bottom all is corrected, this meant that you just cleaned your printhead nozzles and problem is solved.
3, if problem persist, from stationery store purchase few pages of absorbent paper, weight of about 120 to 160, do not use thicker than 160 and print these colour pages again,
4. print control page again and see if any improvement was made, if there were no changes, follow this procedure:

a. remove cartridges from craddle
b. determine what is ink solvent, water, isopropyl alcohol or methylated alcohol - correct solvent will be that which do not precipitate or curdle the ink
c. touch with absorbent tissuebottom of the cartridge and check if it is leaving even print, if not, whipe once with solvent
d. put a drop of solvent on gold/silver buttons inside of the craddle, allow to sink for about a minute, whipe off with absorbent tissue
e. put again a drop of solvent on the button in the craddle and insert ink cartridge
f. print test page, page will be very weak on the top (solvent print first!) and improve as it prints down, if necessary, print again colour or black test page from 1.

this should solve your streaking head problems, if they still persist, this meant that print heads are really well blocked by caked ink and usually is cheaper to change printer than change the head in it...

if you find this advice useful, please do not hesitate to leafe your feedback and vote for me, thanx!

That's odd for an InkJet printer to do that, but try swapping for a different ink cartridge as a test. Also, check the rollers, maybe some ink got on them. If that's the case, it should dry up eventually (soon).

Checking the paper path for ink deposits might be the solution. I had a similar problem sometime ago, where the fuser got some scratch damage for unknown reasons and i suppose was causing unfused ink to accumulate after the fuser, leaving streaks on paper.

ink is coming up from below where it shouldn't and coating the exit rollers. It will need a good cleaning and a mylar shield to prevent ink coming up in the future. An $80.00 repair in our shop.

Fuser sleeve is contaminated and needs replacing - cheaper to replace the printer.

needs a new toner cartridge probably but the fuser rollers may be damaged as well usually if the lines are indented into the paper that means its the fuser roller if they just appear strait down the page then its the toner cartridge