>"Mark Corbelli" <m_corbe...@juno.com> wrote in message
>news:i9Khk.467$5Q.255@trnddc06...
>> Got a used Canon s600 and it prints, but every third line or so you can
>> see that it tried to print a letter, but it will appear stretched out. The
>> ends of sentences are left off, graphics you can forget about etc.  It
>> really sounded like a driver problem, but I've downloaded and installed
>> the latest drivers from Canon on three different computers all running XP
>> with no change in results. Any ideas would be appreciated.

>Never mind, I finally found it. In case anyone else has this problem, there
>is a plastic film strip that runs the length of the printer that the
>printhead uses to determine where it is. I cleaned that strip with a
>towlette soaked in alcohol and the problem was solved.