
*** The darker Cyan swath may have some missing ink at the bottom, though this may be artifact. FYI - Dye-based inks may not look as deep a black as the pigment ink nor will they be water resistant. Try different settings to see what works best. For example, choosing Matte setting will use only the Dye-based inks, which yours appear to be OK*** based on your posted nozzle check. In this case, replacing one part may result in that new part's malfunction and the only way to resolve this is to replace both parts simultaneously.Ī workaround for a malfunction in the PGBK channel is to set the printer to use a photo paper setting instead of plain paper setting. Also, an electrical malfunction can be propagated from the print head to the logic assay board and vice versa. A new print head should resolve the issue.Ĭaveat: This may represent a logic board assay malfunction, though the odds are it is the print head.

Your nozzle check is incompletely visualized due to excessive cropping, but, it appears the print head is irreparably damaged from an electrical malfunction as demonstrated by the perfect straight line cut off of printed grid for the pigment ink PGBK. Could it be something else? Damaged printer head? I've done a thorough flush using a printer head cleaning solution but it's still the same. Presumably this is not a purge issue as it's delivering ink to part of the printer head. See the link below for an image of the nozzle check printout.

When I do a nozzle check it only prints the top half of the PGBK grid. Photos still print out fine so it's only affecting the PGBK nozzle. The print has been a bit blurry every since, until yesterday when it threw up the error and now half of my print is blank. Only thing that I can think that may have caused this was a paper jam last week. Other colours as well as BK cartridge is unaffected. Only problem is is now won't print properly using the PGBK cartridge and have large 1" blank gaps/lines when printing text documents. After some Googling I managed to get it to work again after opening the printer cover whilst turned off then closing the cover whilst turning on and somehow this booted the printer back to life.

I had a printer error (b203) this week and couldn't print anything.
