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It seems that if I print the same document with exact same settings the
print quality of black is paler when using Duplex.

It seems that it is not using the same black ink as the Non Duplex printing.

Anyone know if this is the case, or should I try a reinstall of the
software?


Thanks

Mike
 
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FIRST YOU SHOULD USE ONLY CANON OEM PIGMENTED INK AND SELECT PLAIN
PAPER. THEN YOU SHOULD USE A HIGH QUALITY PAPER LIKE HAMMERMILL PREMIUM
INKJET PAPER THAT YOU CAN GET AT STAPLES OR OFFICE DEPOT. YOU SHOULD
NOT EXPERIENCE THAT.

BUT IF YOU DO NOT USE CANON OEM INK THEN YOU CANNOT EXPECT THE PRINTER
TO PERFORM AS CANON MFG IT.

Mikey wrote:

>It seems that if I print the same document with exact same settings the
>print quality of black is paler when using Duplex.
>
>It seems that it is not using the same black ink as the Non Duplex printing.
>
>Anyone know if this is the case, or should I try a reinstall of the
>software?
>
>
>Thanks
>
>Mike
>
>
>
>
 
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I am using CANON ink and top quality paper.

I am also only talking about a standard word document.

I have printed out two versions of the same document. The only difference
is that one is set to DUPLEX and the other single sheet.

It defiantly looks like each document uses the different Black ink.


Mike
 
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> Even Cannon support could not help me, all they said was to reinstall
> drivers as wrong in may be going to printer.
>
> Fat lot of good they are, although I may wind them up this week about it.

Well, keep in mind that level 1 support is pretty much limited to
things you can read for your self in the owners manual. That's their
purpose in life. In all fairness most problems can be solved with
level 1, but if you have an issue they can't resolve it can get
escalated to level 2 which from what i've read in here requires waiting
around for them to phone you back.

Regarding your issue... I would ask that you repeat your experiment of
duplexing making sure you are printing a black text document... i.e. no
color. I've observed on my ip3000 when doing normal documents with a
tad of color that it would mix cyan, magenta, and yellow to make black
when I had a document with only text but some in different colors. I
noticed this only because I was running low on magenta but assumed
since my black (bci-3e) was untouched that I would have more than
enough to finish the job. And well, everything was printed in various
shades of cyan.

Is this your issue? I have no clue. I've only observed a difference
my self when printing mixed color and black text. But it may be
possible your printing in the bci-6 black for some reason.

Also, don't discount the paper you're using. You might want to try the
same thing with some inkjet bond paper. The results might be better.
 
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measekite wrote:
> FIRST YOU SHOULD USE ONLY CANON OEM PIGMENTED INK AND SELECT PLAIN
> PAPER. THEN YOU SHOULD USE A HIGH QUALITY PAPER LIKE HAMMERMILL
> PREMIUM INKJET PAPER THAT YOU CAN GET AT STAPLES OR OFFICE DEPOT. YOU
> SHOULD NOT EXPERIENCE THAT.
>
> BUT IF YOU DO NOT USE CANON OEM INK THEN YOU CANNOT EXPECT THE PRINTER
> TO PERFORM AS CANON MFG IT.
>

BULLSHIT!!!

It's common knowledge that Canon in duplex mode prints with worse quality
than in normal single mode. Since in duplex is also bloddy slow, it's far
quicker if you print in software duplex and turn paper by yourself.
 
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I have tried that, but if duplex is select (whether auto or manual) the
quality is lower.

Any more help appreciated.


Mike
 
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Mikey wrote:

> I am using CANON ink and top quality paper.
>
> I am also only talking about a standard word document.
>
> I have printed out two versions of the same document. The only difference
> is that one is set to DUPLEX and the other single sheet.
>
> It defiantly looks like each document uses the different Black ink.
>
>
> Mike
>

Yes, you are absolutely correct. This has nothing to to do with
what kind of ink you are using - OEM or compatible - as Measekite
would like you to believe.

I get the same results as you using duplex with my iP5000 - which I
hate duplexing with, by the way. It's agonizingly slow. When printing a
document using duplex, your printer doesn't use the large pigmented
black cartridge. It mixes the three CYM colors to imitate black, thus
you get that dark grey text, so to speak, that you mentioned. I checked
the duplex printout with a strong magnifier and could plainly see CYM
dot splatters of red and blue (yellow is harder to see). This mixing
colors to make "black" ink is intentional. My best guess is that Canon
is doing this is because they know they would get smudging of the ink
since pigmented black ink takes a lot longer to dry than the dye ink colors.

I never ever use the duplex feature. I consider it inferior, now more
than ever since it mixes colors to make black.

I duplex manually. When I print one side of a page I often have to blow
on it before showing it back in for the flip side. Smudge risk.

So either accept the lighter shade of pale or flip and get genuine
black. I prefer the latter.

-Taliesyn
 
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Mikey wrote:

>I have tried that, but if duplex is select (whether auto or manual) the
>quality is lower.
>
>Any more help appreciated.
>
>
>Mike
>
>
THAT DOES NOT HAPPEN WITH MY PRINTER.

>
>
>
 
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Thanks to all for your posts.

Even Cannon support could not help me, all they said was to reinstall
drivers as wrong in may be going to printer.

Fat lot of good they are, although I may wind them up this week about it.

Cheers again

Mikey
 
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Mikey wrote:

> Thanks to all for your posts.
>
> Even Cannon support could not help me, all they said was to reinstall
> drivers as wrong in may be going to printer.
>

Yes, "Reinstall The Drivers". In other words, they haven't a clue what
you're talking about.

No, like you, I get two shades of black. One pure black pigmented when
duplexed manually, the other an off black dye mixture when using auto
duplex. I used very high quality paper, which obviously makes no difference.

If I have a 100 sheets both sides to print I simply print the odd sides,
and then the even sides. I can live very well without auto duplexing. I
got tired of having a cup of coffee while waiting for each each sheet to
come out of the printer.

-Taliesyn
 
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In article <rl0Ze.2520$G64.2017@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com>,
inkystinky@oem.com says...
>
>
> Mikey wrote:
>
> >I have tried that, but if duplex is select (whether auto or manual) the
> >quality is lower.
> >
> >Any more help appreciated.
> >
> >
> >Mike
> >
> >
> THAT DOES NOT HAPPEN WITH MY PRINTER.
>
> >
> >
Familiarity with your previous posts leads me to think you would not
know the difference.
 
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measekite <inkystinky@oem.com> wrote:
>Mikey wrote:
>
>>I have tried that, but if duplex is select (whether auto or manual) the
>>quality is lower.
>>
>>Any more help appreciated.
>>
>>
>>Mike
>>
>>
>THAT DOES NOT HAPPEN WITH MY PRINTER.

Measekite you are either in need of a better quality pince-nez or you are lying
again or you have a special Canon 'employee of the year' version of the ip4000.

The difference in quality between duplex and simplex printing is clear to the
naked eye, both black text and colour output is slightly less intense when
automatic duplexing. I have not played around with the settings to see if this
can be improved but this performance is out-of-the-box for the ip4000.

Your totally unresearched and biased postings about this printer do Canon and
this newsgroup a serious disservice. I believe this is a good printer for the
price but it is less than perfect and for some people it simply does not meet
their needs, it's high time you understood that.
Tony
 
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measekite <inkystinky@oem.com> wrote:
>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

>>It's common knowledge that Canon in duplex mode prints with worse quality
>>than in normal single mode.
>>
>
>MINE DOES NOT

Wrong

The difference in quality between duplex and simplex printing is clear to the
naked eye, both black text and colour output is slightly less intense when
automatic duplexing. This is out-of-the-box performance for the ip4000.


>>Since in duplex is also bloddy slow,
>>
>
>IT IS THE SAME SPEED. YOU CANNOT COUNT THE FLIP TIME.

Wrong again

It is 5-10%slower ignoring the turnaround time using standard settings.

Tony
 
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> ...millions of users choose canon because they want to print 5 to 20 page
> documents on both sides of the paper by pressing the print button and
> comming back a few minutes later with a properly colated stack of output

I know i'll get harrassed for this.

Manual duplexing results in properly colated stack of output. This
might not be true on some printers who's output is copy side down but
on cheap inkjets who leave copy side up i.e. no U turn after an image
is printed manual duplexing = colated.

*It was their target goal to sell 15 million units by the end of 2004
I don't know if they met their goal but there are at least millions of
canon users of which only a fraction have printers that duplex as in
2004 you could buy low cost non-duplexing models. And of those only a
fraction actually duplex. And Canon's focus has been mostly single
fuction photo printers which duplexing isn't really nessicary manual or
otherwise.

It is possible that canon may have sold millions of pixmas but what
evidence do you have that the majority of canon users use duplex
printing. None at all. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice enough
feature. In fact I know many ip3000s were purchaced by businesses by
the bucket load when they learned that a sub $100 inkjet with a very
low cost per page for black could duplex, even if it's a slow duplex.
But I don't see this as being millions. I see this as being handy for
SOHO or a branch office. Home users I don't see bothering even though
canon is trying to push double sided photo paper.

But as others have pointed out, quality might suffer as a result of
auto duplexing, and manual duplexing is faster esp since the printer
offers two trays. And let's face it, inkjets require dry time and are
not the best devices to auto duplex, but manual duplexing at the very
least allows for maxium dry time for each sheet.

*http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worldbiz/archives/2004/07/06/2003177949

So anyone who makes it a point not to auto duplex isn't stupid. They
are using their own skills at observation to establish that it's not a
time effective means to print on a Pixma, and others observe there is a
loss in quality. It's up to the user whether they want to use auto
duplex and fetch a cup of coffee or manualy duplex. Given the yield on
the pixma is limited to 500p for the bci-3e I would suspect that
massive amounts of duplexing isn't a viable option anyway so it's
rather a moot point.
 
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> Do I belong in this newsgroup?
> I don't know but at least I do no deliberate harm.

You talk about printers. On that note alone you belong in this group.

You're "in da buzzniss"(sic) according to our resident spammer. This
makes you more qualified than many other people including my self.
 
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Taliesyn wrote:
> Mikey wrote:
>
>> Thanks to all for your posts.
>>
>> Even Cannon support could not help me, all they said was to reinstall
>> drivers as wrong in may be going to printer.
>>
>
> Yes, "Reinstall The Drivers". In other words, they haven't a clue what
> you're talking about.
>
> No, like you, I get two shades of black. One pure black pigmented when
> duplexed manually, the other an off black dye mixture when using auto
> duplex. I used very high quality paper, which obviously makes no
> difference.
>
> If I have a 100 sheets both sides to print I simply print the odd sides,
> and then the even sides. I can live very well without auto duplexing. I
> got tired of having a cup of coffee while waiting for each each sheet to
> come out of the printer.
>
> -Taliesyn

I was annoyed by the same light printing for duplex. It took a lot of
searching, but somewhere on the canon site it says that it automatically
lightens the pigmented ink when doing duplex to avoid to avoid
transferring ink to the inside of the printer (pigmented ink will tend
to smear). If you use the highest quality mode it will add some
dye ink to try and fill in the spaces (as noted above, but there still
does seem to be some pigmented). In standard mode it seems to be just
pigmented, but light (but a reasonable speed).

So this is an annoying feature, it is a feature though, so you are not
going to 'fix' it.
 
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Yupei wrote:

> Taliesyn wrote:
>
>> Mikey wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks to all for your posts.
>>>
>>> Even Cannon support could not help me, all they said was to reinstall
>>> drivers as wrong in may be going to printer.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, "Reinstall The Drivers". In other words, they haven't a clue what
>> you're talking about.
>>
>> No, like you, I get two shades of black. One pure black pigmented when
>> duplexed manually, the other an off black dye mixture when using auto
>> duplex. I used very high quality paper, which obviously makes no
>> difference.
>>
>> If I have a 100 sheets both sides to print I simply print the odd sides,
>> and then the even sides. I can live very well without auto duplexing. I
>> got tired of having a cup of coffee while waiting for each each sheet
>> to come out of the printer.
>>
>> -Taliesyn
>
>
> I was annoyed by the same light printing for duplex. It took a lot of
> searching, but somewhere on the canon site it says that it automatically
> lightens the pigmented ink when doing duplex to avoid to avoid
> transferring ink to the inside of the printer (pigmented ink will tend
> to smear). If you use the highest quality mode it will add some
> dye ink to try and fill in the spaces (as noted above, but there still
> does seem to be some pigmented). In standard mode it seems to be just
> pigmented, but light (but a reasonable speed).
>

Thanks for the info. However, in standard mode, which I used for my
tests, I found blue and red dots.

-Taliesyn

> So this is an annoying feature, it is a feature though, so you are not
> going to 'fix' it.

Not an absolutely necessary feature anyway.
 
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Tony wrote:

>measekite <inkystinky@oem.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Mikey wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>I have tried that, but if duplex is select (whether auto or manual) the
>>>quality is lower.
>>>
>>>Any more help appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>>Mike
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>THAT DOES NOT HAPPEN WITH MY PRINTER.
>>
>>
>
>Measekite you are either in need of a better quality pince-nez or you are lying
>again or you have a special Canon 'employee of the year' version of the ip4000.
>
>

TONY DA TIGER IS IN DA BUSINESS. YOU CANNOT BELIEVE ANYTHING HE SAYS.

>The difference in quality between duplex and simplex printing is clear to the
>naked eye, both black text and colour output is slightly less intense when
>automatic duplexing. I have not played around with the settings to see if this
>can be improved but this performance is out-of-the-box for the ip4000.
>
>Your totally unresearched and biased postings about this printer do Canon and
>this newsgroup a serious disservice.
>

BEING IN DA BUSINESS AND GIVING PARTICIPANTS IN THIS NG ADVICE SO YOU
CAN MAKE MORE MONEY IS A SERIOUS DISSERVICE.

>I believe this is a good printer for the
>price but it is less than perfect and for some people it simply does not meet
>their needs, it's high time you understood that.
>Tony
>
>

I GUESS IT BREAKS DOWN LESS SO YOU DO NOT MAKE AS MUCH MONEY.
 
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TONY DA TIGER MAKE MONEY FROM MANY OF YOU IDIOTS. HE DOES NOT BELONG IN
THIS NG.

Tony wrote:

>measekite <inkystinky@oem.com> wrote:
>
>
>>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>>
>>
>
>
>
>>>It's common knowledge that Canon in duplex mode prints with worse quality
>>>than in normal single mode.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>MINE DOES NOT
>>
>>
>
>Wrong
>
>The difference in quality between duplex and simplex printing is clear to the
>naked eye, both black text and colour output is slightly less intense when
>automatic duplexing. This is out-of-the-box performance for the ip4000.
>
>
>
>
>>>Since in duplex is also bloddy slow,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>IT IS THE SAME SPEED. YOU CANNOT COUNT THE FLIP TIME.
>>
>>
>
>Wrong again
>
>It is 5-10%slower ignoring the turnaround time using standard settings.
>
>Tony
>
>
>
 
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Taliesyn wrote:

> Yupei wrote:
>
>> Taliesyn wrote:
>>
>>> Mikey wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks to all for your posts.
>>>>
>>>> Even Cannon support could not help me, all they said was to
>>>> reinstall drivers as wrong in may be going to printer.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, "Reinstall The Drivers". In other words, they haven't a clue what
>>> you're talking about.
>>>
>>> No, like you, I get two shades of black. One pure black pigmented when
>>> duplexed manually, the other an off black dye mixture when using auto
>>> duplex. I used very high quality paper, which obviously makes no
>>> difference.
>>>
>>> If I have a 100 sheets both sides to print I simply print the odd
>>> sides,
>>> and then the even sides. I can live very well without auto duplexing. I
>>> got tired of having a cup of coffee while waiting for each each
>>> sheet to come out of the printer.
>>>
>>> -Taliesyn
>>
>>
>>
>> I was annoyed by the same light printing for duplex. It took a lot of
>> searching, but somewhere on the canon site it says that it automatically
>> lightens the pigmented ink when doing duplex to avoid to avoid
>> transferring ink to the inside of the printer (pigmented ink will tend
>> to smear). If you use the highest quality mode it will add some
>> dye ink to try and fill in the spaces (as noted above, but there still
>> does seem to be some pigmented). In standard mode it seems to be just
>> pigmented, but light (but a reasonable speed).
>>
>
> Thanks for the info. However, in standard mode, which I used for my
> tests, I found blue and red dots.
>
> -Taliesyn
>
>> So this is an annoying feature, it is a feature though, so you are not
>> going to 'fix' it.
>
>
> An absolutely necessary feature anyway.
>
>
 
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measekite <inkystinky@oem.com> wrote:
>TONY DA TIGER MAKE MONEY FROM MANY OF YOU IDIOTS. HE DOES NOT BELONG IN
>THIS NG.

Completely wrong, this newsgroup provides me with no money any way you want to
analyse it.
It provides me with information and a sense of achievement on the rare
occasions that I can help someone.
The reasons for that are obvious to several participants with whom I have
conversed by e-mail.

Do I belong in this newsgroup? I don't know but at least I do no deliberate
harm. Other people will be the judge of that, your opinion on that matter is as
redundant as your intellect.
Do you belong here with your foul mouthed invective, constant refusal to admit
it when you are wrong, your deliberate lies, shouting and spitefully childish
changing of other peoples posts? You do deliberate harm and that is the reason
that I answer your posts on rare occasions; an attempt to restore some balance.
You cannot string a sentence together without referring to body parts or bodily
waste....correction....you can't string a sentence together.

Tony
 
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Tony wrote:

>measekite <inkystinky@oem.com> wrote:
>
>
>>TONY DA TIGER MAKE MONEY FROM MANY OF YOU IDIOTS. HE DOES NOT BELONG IN
>>THIS NG.
>>
>>
>
>Completely wrong, this newsgroup provides me with no money any way you want to
>analyse it.
>
>

IT PROVIDES YOU WITH PUBIC RELATIONS.

>It provides me with information and a sense of achievement on the rare
>occasions that I can help someone.
>
>

BULLSHIT..YOU ARE IN DA BUSINESS

>The reasons for that are obvious to several participants with whom I have
>conversed by e-mail.
>
>Do I belong in this newsgroup? I don't know but at least I do no deliberate
>harm. Other people will be the judge of that, your opinion on that matter is as
>redundant as your intellect.
>Do you belong here with your foul mouthed invective, constant refusal to admit
>it when you are wrong, your deliberate lies, shouting and spitefully childish
>changing of other peoples posts? You do deliberate harm and that is the reason
>that I answer your posts on rare occasions; an attempt to restore some balance.
>You cannot string a sentence together without referring to body parts or bodily
>waste....correction....you can't string a sentence together.
>
>Tony
>
>
 
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zakezuke wrote:

>>...millions of users choose canon because they want to print 5 to 20 page
>>documents on both sides of the paper by pressing the print button and
>>comming back a few minutes later with a properly colated stack of output
>>
>>
>
>I know
>
MATT ZAKOWSKI - HERE COMES ANOTHER THESIS

>i'll get harrassed for this.
>
>Manual duplexing results in properly colated stack of output. This
>might not be true on some printers who's output is copy side down but
>on cheap inkjets who leave copy side up i.e. no U turn after an image
>is printed manual duplexing = colated.
>
>*It was their target goal to sell 15 million units by the end of 2004
>I don't know if they met their goal but there are at least millions of
>canon users of which only a fraction have printers that duplex as in
>2004 you could buy low cost non-duplexing models. And of those only a
>fraction actually duplex. And Canon's focus has been mostly single
>fuction photo printers which duplexing isn't really nessicary manual or
>otherwise.
>
>It is possible that canon may have sold millions of pixmas but what
>evidence do you have that the majority of canon users use duplex
>printing. None at all. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice enough
>feature. In fact I know many ip3000s were purchaced by businesses by
>the bucket load when they learned that a sub $100 inkjet with a very
>low cost per page for black could duplex, even if it's a slow duplex.
>But I don't see this as being millions. I see this as being handy for
>SOHO or a branch office. Home users I don't see bothering even though
>canon is trying to push double sided photo paper.
>
>But as others have pointed out, quality might suffer as a result of
>auto duplexing, and manual duplexing is faster esp since the printer
>offers two trays. And let's face it, inkjets require dry time and are
>not the best devices to auto duplex, but manual duplexing at the very
>least allows for maxium dry time for each sheet.
>
>*http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worldbiz/archives/2004/07/06/2003177949
>
>So anyone who makes it a point not to auto duplex isn't stupid. They
>are using their own skills at observation to establish that it's not a
>time effective means to print on a Pixma, and others observe there is a
>loss in quality. It's up to the user whether they want to use auto
>duplex and fetch a cup of coffee or manualy duplex. Given the yield on
>the pixma is limited to 500p for the bci-3e I would suspect that
>massive amounts of duplexing isn't a viable option anyway so it's
>rather a moot point.
>
>
>
 
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zakezuke wrote:

>>Do I belong in this newsgroup?
>>I don't know but at least I do no deliberate harm.
>>
>>
>
>You talk about printers. On that note alone you belong in this group.
>
>You're "in da buzzniss"(sic) according to our resident spammer. This
>makes you more qualified than many other people including my self, MATT ZAKOWSKI.
>
>
>
 
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"zakezuke" <zakezuke_us@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Do I belong in this newsgroup?
>> I don't know but at least I do no deliberate harm.
>
>You talk about printers. On that note alone you belong in this group.
>
>You're "in da buzzniss"(sic) according to our resident spammer. This
>makes you more qualified than many other people including my self.

You are very kind but I have learnt more than I have contributed here, often
from yourself.
Tony
 
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