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Prints some blank pages

After several years of excellent service my Canon Smartbase MP730 Photo has taken to producing one blank page prior to and one blank page after the work I require printed which it prints perfectly between the blank pages.
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Mike Caulkett

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Hello mike,
First, we need to diagnose what the cause what might be causing your printer to print blanks. Depending on the brand there are various different things that you can do to try and resolve this. But, there are a few issues that you'll want to check beforehand which are applicable to all printers, so it's worth checking these out beforehand.
If you're using any one of these brands (and most others), then you should easily be able to find the clean printhead option in the settings. In HP Printers, you can tend to do this on the printer itself by heading into Setup > Tools > Clean Printhead. Depending on your printer, you might not be able to do this on the printer itself.
If this is the case for you, then you'll want to do it manually through your computer. Head to the Control Panel > My Devices on your computer, and you should be able to find your printer there if it's connected. Right click and go onto the Printer Properties section, then click on Preferences. There, you'll find Clean Printhead.

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Try changing the paper settings of the printer twice and see if it starts printing correctly again. Change it to something different first and then to what it should be for paper size. If that doesn't work, then unplug it, uninstall it and reinstall it and see if that fixes the problem. Let me know how this works.

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Hello Mike,
Please try to refill the catridge and if it dint help you then replace the Catridge ,which will surely pay off you..Thank you...

Please Post on how things turned or for further assistance..!!

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The control panel LCD also provides menus to operate the copy and fax modes independently of a PC. One nice touch: the LCD displays small and large type on the same screen, allowing more information about a print job to show at one time. b.gif 21262659-2-200-dt2.gif
The flash card reader under the control panel means you don't need a PC to print photos.

The MP730, while easy to operate, lacks some of the advanced features you might find on separate printers or faxes. For example, the MP730 can't collate copy jobs. To make more than one collated copy of a multipage document, you have to place the document in the ADF several times. Nor can the MP730 sync fax numbers entered by hand or accessed from within the Windows Address Book (Canon doesn't provide its own fax/address-book software), so you may end up duplicating efforts. Nor does Canon's software create group dials from your address book on your PC or provide a cover sheet. Finally, the MP730 can't forward faxes to another number or hold a fax to send when nighttime low rates kick in, which other multifunctions do.

Still, the MP730 provides plenty of features we do like. Using the menus with the Photo Print mode, you can print a photo contact sheet, pick individual images to print, and set up the printer to copy or print onto high-quality glossy paper. In the Copy mode, menus let you print two reduced originals side by side or print the same image on the same page several times (useful for business cards, name tags, and so on). The fax engine distinguishes voice from fax, sending voice calls to your phone or an answering machine and sending fax calls to the printer or to buffer memory so that you don't have to get a second phone line installed for your fax.

Installing the MP730 software is slow but idiot-proof: You just pop in the CD and follow instructions, which require restarting your PC several times. Canon bundles the MP730 with ScanSoft's OmniPage SE, a lite version of the best optical-character recognition software on the market, and NewSoft's Presto PageManager 6.0, one of the best document-management databases available.
The MultiPass MP730 won't replace top-of-the-line printers and scanners, but its print and scan speeds keep up with other multifunctions' as well as that of most as midrange ink-jet printers and scanners on the market today. In our tests, it printed ordinary text at 6.4 pages per minute and printed CNET's high-resolution test photo in 3.7 minutes. For comparison, the Lexmark X5150 (only $149 but without fax capability or automatic document feeder) prints text at a more common 5.2 pages per minute, and printed our test photo in about 2 minutes. Canon's MP730 scans a page of black in 9.4 seconds and a page of color in 20 seconds; that's seconds faster than the HP PSC 1210. And the Canon makes copies in 18.7 seconds; that's almost twice as fast the HP PSC 1210.

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Grayscale scans on the MP730 when compared with other scans seemed overexposed, losing paler shades of gray along with some detail, while color scans showed accurate colors and fairly good detail despite somewhat grainy textures.
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