Fix Canon printing wavy, zigzag, shifting, double, or ghost images.

Today, we're talking about an exciting issue. Suppose you bought a Canon printer and started printing double images or zigzag lines. You can see everything is a little bit shifted here and that the lines are zigzagged. You may have some lines printing just fine, and some other lines have double images. The problem is different from nozzle clogging. A clogged printhead looks like the ink can't get out of the nozzles, such as a color missing or a color in stripes. For today's problem, it doesn't have stripes. It's just zigzagging.

Canon will tell you it's an alignment issue, and I will show you how to print the alignment page. Then, after you print out the alignment page, you put it on a scanner and scan it as a regular document, and then the Canon can automatically adjust the alignment. Of course, it won't work. Otherwise, we'll not be making this video. Let's try it. We go to device and printers, right-click and select printer property and maintenance. From here, we print, print and alignment, and align the printhead. The printer will start to print out the alignment page. Then, we put the alignment page on the scanner and scan. It didn't fix anything. The problem is Canon expects you to print an alignment page like this. However, in reality, your alignment page is zigzagged like this. Therefore, if you put this zigzagged page on the scanner, the printer cannot fix it automatically.

Don't panic yet. Here, we go back to our screen and go to custom settings, and then you draw a line manually and click okay, and as you apply, say okay. Now, do the printhead alignment again. You will see something different. You'll say align the printhead. Click yes. Now, you're going to see this screen. We have a page in front of us so that we can take a look. We have a series of columns. For column A, we're going to pick whichever is more solid. It doesn't need to be precise. You can choose the one that you feel the color is more even. For column A, we think three is more substantial. B, probably zero, or leave as is. C is the negative one, and D is the one. After we go through all of the-- E is one. F is-- I'll put a zero. G is to five. His-- I'll leave it as is. I am one, and J is four. You guys see this is really out of alignment. K is a negative one, and then we'll click okay. Then, we go to the second page.

Their total is five pages. I'm not going to just bore you about all the details, but after five pages, your printer should be back to the alignment again, and you'll be printing beautiful pictures.