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HP Deskjet 5550 printing blurred/misaligned text - misaligned colour cartridge?
Hi all,
My Deskjet 5550, after several years of great service, has suddenly started printing blurred text. Looking closely, it appears that it is printing a very slightly misaligned version of each letter - giving a blurred effect. Printing using the black cartridge only seems to fix the problem, indicating that the colour cartridge is out of alignment. The problem occurred just after changing the colour cartridge, so there's definitely a link there! However, running the 'calibrate printer' procedure does not fix the problem. Neither does removing and re-inserting the colour cartridge. Anyone got any thoughts as to how to fix the problem?? Thanks, James |
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As far as I know, the 5550 (I've got one too) should use the black 56
cartridge only on text documents without you having to do anything to manually select it, so I wonder if the problem is that the documents you are choosing to print don't have black as the default font colour in your text software. Or possibly your text is not really text at all (in the sense of being a bunch of ASCII) but is an image, just as if it were a scanned text that hasn't been OCR'd. Keep it simple and print from Notepad to check. PS My 2 yr old many times refilled 56 cartridge has just started giving fuzzy edges unless I use 'Best'. Old age reaches us all. wrote in message ups.com... Hi all, My Deskjet 5550, after several years of great service, has suddenly started printing blurred text. Looking closely, it appears that it is printing a very slightly misaligned version of each letter - giving a blurred effect. Printing using the black cartridge only seems to fix the problem, indicating that the colour cartridge is out of alignment. The problem occurred just after changing the colour cartridge, so there's definitely a link there! However, running the 'calibrate printer' procedure does not fix the problem. Neither does removing and re-inserting the colour cartridge. Anyone got any thoughts as to how to fix the problem?? Thanks, James |
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Hi Steve,
Thanks for the tips - will try them out. James SteveB wrote: As far as I know, the 5550 (I've got one too) should use the black 56 cartridge only on text documents without you having to do anything to manually select it, so I wonder if the problem is that the documents you are choosing to print don't have black as the default font colour in your text software. Or possibly your text is not really text at all (in the sense of being a bunch of ASCII) but is an image, just as if it were a scanned text that hasn't been OCR'd. Keep it simple and print from Notepad to check. PS My 2 yr old many times refilled 56 cartridge has just started giving fuzzy edges unless I use 'Best'. Old age reaches us all. wrote in message ups.com... Hi all, My Deskjet 5550, after several years of great service, has suddenly started printing blurred text. Looking closely, it appears that it is printing a very slightly misaligned version of each letter - giving a blurred effect. Printing using the black cartridge only seems to fix the problem, indicating that the colour cartridge is out of alignment. The problem occurred just after changing the colour cartridge, so there's definitely a link there! However, running the 'calibrate printer' procedure does not fix the problem. Neither does removing and re-inserting the colour cartridge. Anyone got any thoughts as to how to fix the problem?? Thanks, James |
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