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Message: [QUOTE="VA1DER, post: 220633, member: 15186"] Hi Clive, Thanks for the email. I have taken the liberty of scaling the image a little smaller and attaching it here. That way it's useful to everyone on the forum. This print test was actually very useful. What the ladder is showing is each individual print head nozzle. The 1 and 2 are, I suspect the print head. Looks like Cyan and Black are on head #1, and Yellow and Magenta on head #2. Low intensity on your colours could have been clogged jets. It looks like all the jets are clear, which is good news. [ATTACH]2432[/ATTACH] So don't run any more print head cleaning routines. Your heads are fine. I wouldn't go so far yet as to try and clean out your inks. Your black and yellow both look more or less as I'd expect. Your cyan does look dark. I am wondering if some black ink mixed in and contaminated the head. When a print head parks, ink jet printers put the print head on a sort of rubber cup that is intended to make a seal and keep it from drying. Over time, and is has been two years, some ink can flow out into that cup and mix. This doesn't appear to have happened on your #2 head, since any magenta in the yellow would be clearly evident. But your #1 head may have had some cross contamination - it's actually hard to tell from the photo, but the cyan looks dark. That could also just be the fact you are using dye sublimation ink, and it doesn't necessarily look great until after it's been heat transferred. If there is cross contamination you can try and flow it out by printing pages set up with large blocks of cyan and black. When you do a heat transfer, what does it look like? [/QUOTE]

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