billubakra
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Hi Guys,
I have a year and half old Canon Pixma G1000 printer. I use it to take colored prints for like 6-7 prints in 10-15 days. From the past couple of days it is printing photos in greenish tint. The black portion of a print has colored lines like these-
*www.upl.co/uploads/Black-Lines1565077056.jpg
The ink tanks are like 50% full, the original ink which came with the printer. I didn't had to refill them at any point.
Printed a nozzle check pattern by pressing the reset button for 2 flash lights on the power button, see result-
*www.upl.co/uploads/Cleaning1565077021.jpg
Cleaned the nozzle twice by pressing the reset button for 1 flash lights on the power button. Deep cleaned by following the steps here-
Canon : PIXMA Manuals : G1000 series : Cleaning the Print Heads
So, in a nutshell Magenta color is not printing. Canon's service centre is a big a$$ ch*tiya in my city, refer to this- Canon service centre misbehaving
They said since its oow so 1000+gst as visiting charges, 1000 inspection charges then part charges. I told them to fck off. They remember me as last time I sent a mail to their head office in Japan. Since it is oow so the service centre head said that they can charge any amount as they want.
I really don't trust the independent printer repair guys/shops here. One of them said that the printhead needs to be replaced, cost 4500-5000. While some other said there is no printhead in this model, the cartridge needs to be changed, cost 3500-4000. Both said that it will take 2 minutes to replace the said part. The original parts should be available in the market. Can we clean/rectify the part ourselves? In any case it is like 50-60% amount of the original cost of the printer.
P.S. If someone is buying a colored printer, then open YT before purchasing and buy the one which has the cheapest parts available+which is easy to be replaced.
Thanks
I have a year and half old Canon Pixma G1000 printer. I use it to take colored prints for like 6-7 prints in 10-15 days. From the past couple of days it is printing photos in greenish tint. The black portion of a print has colored lines like these-
*www.upl.co/uploads/Black-Lines1565077056.jpg
The ink tanks are like 50% full, the original ink which came with the printer. I didn't had to refill them at any point.
Printed a nozzle check pattern by pressing the reset button for 2 flash lights on the power button, see result-
*www.upl.co/uploads/Cleaning1565077021.jpg
Cleaned the nozzle twice by pressing the reset button for 1 flash lights on the power button. Deep cleaned by following the steps here-
Canon : PIXMA Manuals : G1000 series : Cleaning the Print Heads
So, in a nutshell Magenta color is not printing. Canon's service centre is a big a$$ ch*tiya in my city, refer to this- Canon service centre misbehaving
They said since its oow so 1000+gst as visiting charges, 1000 inspection charges then part charges. I told them to fck off. They remember me as last time I sent a mail to their head office in Japan. Since it is oow so the service centre head said that they can charge any amount as they want.
I really don't trust the independent printer repair guys/shops here. One of them said that the printhead needs to be replaced, cost 4500-5000. While some other said there is no printhead in this model, the cartridge needs to be changed, cost 3500-4000. Both said that it will take 2 minutes to replace the said part. The original parts should be available in the market. Can we clean/rectify the part ourselves? In any case it is like 50-60% amount of the original cost of the printer.
P.S. If someone is buying a colored printer, then open YT before purchasing and buy the one which has the cheapest parts available+which is easy to be replaced.
Thanks
