I have a Canon MP130 which is about 3 years old. It prints text fine, but when I print photos on 6 x 4 photo paper, it prints harsh, black streaks on the paper, ruining the picture and wasting the ink. I have tried all the maintenence on my printer properties and cleaned the nozzles with a cotton bud. Could the problem lie in my cheap paper and ink?
1) To clean the nozzle you will need to use the cleaning programme in your maintenance tab of your printer. A cotton bud will not clean it. A nozzle clean is not the same as a print head clean there should be two sepertate programmes for these. 2) It could be that you have not set the paper type in the paper settings in your printer to the correct type. I always set mine to other photo paper even if I have gloss photo paper as I find it prints better. There is a menu of paper types accessible via the preferences menu on your printer menu. 3) If the ink prints text fine then unless you have used pigmented ink when it takes dye based ink then that should not be the trouble. 4) Sometimes streaks on photos are a sign that your ink is low. That's all I can thing off of the top of my head working with what you say.



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