Sorry, typing a lot slow than my train of thought. If the line drivers fail, you are pretty much out of luck unless you can find the chip and a replacement. When you can get a inkjet printer for about the same price as the cartridge, it is pretty much a design for recycle situation.
Kin Wong wrote: >Inkjet printers are also known as spit printers, where the liquid ink is >heated up by an electric current causing it to boil and explode through >a tiny nozzle. Thus if the problem is persistent anytime you are >printing colour text, they it could be the contacts for controlling the >top nozzles are dirty and you don't have adequate connection or the >drivers for those contacts have failed. > >If it is a dirty contact, you can try some 100% isopropanol to clean >it. If it is corroded, use a pink eraser from a pencil to clean up the >contacts a bit and repeat the some 100% isopropanol. > >hth > >D Bhardwaj wrote: > > > >>On this inkjet printer, only the top part of only 'coloured' and not b&w >>characters fail to print properly - meaning the colour is not only faint but >>different shade. This symptom manifests when printing from a website - >>mostly. The cartridge has been replaced but no go. >>Any ideas? >> >>_______________________________________________ >>clug-talk mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >>Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >>**Please remove these lines when replying >> >> >> >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >clug-talk mailing list >[email protected] >http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >**Please remove these lines when replying > > > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
