i9100 stained media

[Danny5]

I have recently been producing pop art style prints using my Canon i9100. Results have been great up until now. For some reason, at the end of each print I am getting a horrible faded series of lines which are ruining them. The problem has only just started occurring and I've had my printer a month. It seems to only happen when printing borderless but that is what I need to do.

I am using photo paper pro glossy. I know when you select borderless printing in the options panel it tells you that staining may occur depending on the type of media used. To me, this is a joke. I didn't spend £300 on a printer for it to stain all my work.

Anyone had similar experiences or have any suggestions on how to put a stop to this?

Thanx

[iwatkins]

Try raising the head ever so slightly, this cured the problems close to the end of prints when using thicker paper on my i9100.

Cheers

Ian

[Danny5]

OK, thanks a lot for that. I will try lifting the print head slightly.

I cleaned the print head and after that I had one print come out unscathed. Then it started happening again. :(

I can't understand it. It happened a couple of times when I first got the printer. I then realised I had the print media settings wrong so I changed it to Photo Paper Plus Glossy and everything was fine. Now out of the blue it is leaving these dreaded lines again. I can hear a sort of scratching sound at the end of each print.