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Recently installed a new black ink cartridge in my Canon i560, but it's not printing anything in black. I've tried running maintenance to clean the print heads, but that has not solved the problem. The maintenance feature to align printheads also doesn't help, since it does not print the numbers/letters to guide the alignment, or columns A and F... any suggestions?
Is the new cartridge genuine canon or compatible? Usually the compatible cartridges contain ink that clogs the nozzles. If the new cartridge is compatible, replace it with genuine canon and only then try maintenance clean. Sometimes this helps
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I have now found the solution elsewhere in the internet: black text only prints on the Canon i560 if selct "normal paper", but not,for instance, if you have "professional photo-paper" selected.
I changed the black ink in my printer, now it will not print everything in black!, I changed it back to the old ink, but still not printing black ink, what do I do?
The printing head have some dryed black ink inside. Look at Canon i550 section in this website. I have posted several answers on how to clean the print head.
I had a similar problem and found out that you have to specify printing on plain paper. If you choose paper other than plain paper, it will make the black from other colors. Check also that all of your cartridges are seated properly. My magenta was not pushed all the way down so I got green instead of black ink when it mixed the colors to make black.
Hi marc, it sounds like the normal clean has not eliminated the clog you may have in back printhead. I need to know if you refil your own cartridges or not to be specific, but basically you need to remove the black ink cartridge, and clean the printers heads yourself, and right down where cartridge sits wth cotton buds and proper cleaning solution. Wipe the surface of cartridge if it has the printhead attatched (some printers have the printhead on them, some have it on the
cartridge. Replace ink, reset black ink level, cancel the alignment for now, go straight to printing. Print a test page and see how it goes.
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