On 14/10/2021 22:07, Indy Jess John wrote:
> On 14/10/2021 17:49, Norman Wells wrote:

>> Just to update this for anyone who may on the off-chance still be
>> interested, the 'new' print head arrived well ahead of schedule, coming
>> inexplicably from Germany rather than China, but was even worse than the
>> original.  The printer wouldn't even perform a head alignment on it, and
>> it wouldn't print out anything like a satisfactory  test page.  It too
>> was blurry with streaky colours and black vertical lines diverging as in
>> the page linked to above.  I suspect therefore that it was just a
>> salvaged one cleaned up a bit but maybe unchecked.
>
> At least ebay let you send it back for a refund because it didn't work.

Actually, I can't be bothered for the amount involved. It was a gamble
I took, and I'm glad just to move on, however frustrating,

> I suspect you are right, and the one you got was a salvaged one. The
> replacement printhead I bought from ebay a few years ago was described
> as "new old stock - genuine Canon part" and it worked perfectly (and it
> still is). I did pay £50 for it though.

Well, I can't be sure it was a print head fault since the original one
didn't work well either. Maybe both are perfect and the fault lies
elsewhere? I suspect not, but it's not worth my time to try to sort out
any further.