canon mp600 help!!!

hi just hitched up my new canon printer. shot some jpegs, stuck memory card in printer.....ugh!!! A4 all ridges throughout the images and really bad quality, broken colour...... just dreadful..... can t find a troubleshooting bit in the manual and i feel like sobbing!! lol!

any ideas anyone before i throw it out of the window..... not put disc in my laptop yet to see how it prints from there but i really dont think the ridges throughout the image are a good thing!!!!!!

sobs

michael x

Try and describe your problem in a way that's even vaguely readable. Sentences are good, loads of .... don't help.

err i said it exactly as it was.......... i cant be more succinct!!

"A4 all ridges throughout the images" makes no sense to me.

A4 SIZE PAPER

looked like i had printed on lined paper......could see lines evenly spaced on the A4 paper underneath the ink.... does that make more sense,lol... i really don t know how better to describe it...... hmph!!!

Oh ok, I think I get you now. Go into the printer setup and do a deep cleaning of your print head. If it doesn't work, do it again. If it's new and still doesn't work exchange it.

If you'd had a better description of the problem more people would've helped and it'd have been solved much more quickly. Here's how I would've described it.

"Hi everyone. I have a new Canon MP600 printer, whenever I make A4 prints there are vertical lines down the page that look like a ridge or where no ink has been put. The color also looks terrible. How do I fix this?"

To which the immediate reply would've been "An ink jet nozzle is blocked, do a print head cleaning or a deep cleaning, if that doesn't work exchange it for a new one".

Not sure about the terrible color sorry.

Hope that helps

tim

thanks for the help concerning the printer and the ' how to write a question properly' lol.... it must be cool being so condescending.........​.. i apologise for my lack of correct terminology but i really don t appreciate such nit picking!!! cheers. x

...... deep cleaned the print head twice no difference!! do you think it should just be exchanged????? hmph, well p****d off!

I'm not being condescending, i'm being helpful. I see it all the time, if questions aren't asked clearly then you get many, many fewer responses and much less help. Take the help or leave it, keep asking questions like that and you'll keep getting little help. If I wasn't trying to be helpful i'd have been a lot more blunt about your wording, ask anyone here, i'm quite good at being blunt.

Yes return the printer or exchange it, there's nothing much more you can do, and if it's new you shouldn't have to bother anyway.

i ve sorted it anyhow! god knows how so i won t attempt to say ( especially as i probably won t word it correctly!!! lol) thanks for the help tim though! i ll try to restrict my use of ...... all the time............... ha!

How'd you fix it? What did you try? Might be good to post it so anyone who who has the problem in future can try it. Glad to have hopefully helped a little

mm i had the printer on the wrong paper setting/ quality setting.... oops! i am very new to this so i am making really silly cock ups along the way.....

there is no troubleshooting guide with the printer, actually not even a real manual, just a quick set-up guide, which seems ridiculous to me. i will try to download a pdf at some point, from somewhere! there are buttons on top of the printer that i have no idea what they are for and they aren t mentioned in any of the literature that came in the box!hmph indeed.

next trauma will be hooking printer to laptop. gulps.

x

There's usually a full manual on the CD that comes with the printer.

lol, that would explain it then.... haven t got that far yet. michael x