"Replacing the cartridge" was my first thought. Fading to purple describes my past experience perfectly. Refilled cartridges tend to do that when they sit around for a while (I thin the ink particles don't stay in a proper colloidal state).
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 8:55 AM, waldor socket <[email protected]> wrote: > Replaced ink cartridges and that seemed to solve the problem. The old ones > were regfills. > Thanks, > Walt > > On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Sounds like the ink is drying out or that the tape over the ink >> cartridge hasn't been removed completely (had this happen to me.) >> Does the printer have a magic key press to print a test page, thereby >> bypassing any questions with CUPS or other software? >> >> Good luck and post back letting us know what you discover. >> >> Regards, >> - Robert >> >> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:47 PM, [email protected] >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Patrick installed Debian for me last weekend and recommended this >> > list. >> > I having problems with my printer (HP Deskjet F335 All-in-One) and >> > CUPS 1.2.7. >> > The problem when printing is that the page starts off printing the >> > letter in black ink and >> > then half-way through the page the ink fades to a purple ink. Why is >> > that? >> >> > > > > -- > Y Gwir Yn Erbyn Byd > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
