Hi:
Thank you for your advice, but the article does not address my problem, and the suggestions are invalid , e.g., Solution Seven, Step Five states that if your print head alignment is successful, then you problem is solved...you can stop troubleshooting.
As I stated above, I get parallel horizontal white lines printed approx every 9/16" down in the vertical direction. The lines are clean, as if someone had placed a piece of sewing thread across the sheet. It seems that the main print roller may have a problem, or that the whatever mechanism on which the print cartridge carriage slides may be the problem, since the problem repeats. I have now had this problem on two of these HP 6520 printers. On the previous one, I have also saw vertical banding in the color printouts: the width of each band is the same, as when two of these bands lie next to each other, vertically. There appears to be a thin band where the two wider bands overlap, thus causing darker print along these thin vertical bands. I was at Best Buy tonight, and one of their folks printed out a detailed color picture. I did not see any of the white, horizontal lines, but did see the thin overlap in the vertical banding.
My gut feeling is that the retailer from who I have been purchasing my printer...a total of four bad ones. has been shipped a batch of defective printers.
On top of that...when going through the setup, printing diagnostic reports, etc., not only have the Setup cartridges run out of ink, but an entire new set of cartridges that I had purchased are already half empty ! I am losing money due to a printer not working correctly.
Any ideas ?
DaleBr
Thank you for your advice, but the article does not address my problem, and the suggestions are invalid , e.g., Solution Seven, Step Five states that if your print head alignment is successful, then you problem is solved...you can stop troubleshooting.
As I stated above, I get parallel horizontal white lines printed approx every 9/16" down in the vertical direction. The lines are clean, as if someone had placed a piece of sewing thread across the sheet. It seems that the main print roller may have a problem, or that the whatever mechanism on which the print cartridge carriage slides may be the problem, since the problem repeats. I have now had this problem on two of these HP 6520 printers. On the previous one, I have also saw vertical banding in the color printouts: the width of each band is the same, as when two of these bands lie next to each other, vertically. There appears to be a thin band where the two wider bands overlap, thus causing darker print along these thin vertical bands. I was at Best Buy tonight, and one of their folks printed out a detailed color picture. I did not see any of the white, horizontal lines, but did see the thin overlap in the vertical banding.
My gut feeling is that the retailer from who I have been purchasing my printer...a total of four bad ones. has been shipped a batch of defective printers.
On top of that...when going through the setup, printing diagnostic reports, etc., not only have the Setup cartridges run out of ink, but an entire new set of cartridges that I had purchased are already half empty ! I am losing money due to a printer not working correctly.
Any ideas ?
DaleBr