My kodak easyshare series 3 printer is printing scratches and blurs and making a stuttering sound? -

I haven t used it in a while, and now its making a loud stuttering sound and printing scratches and blurs and out of focus pictures. I ve tried several different cartridges and different paper as well...any ideas?

The rollers are clogged up with dirt and dried ink. Clean with acetone and run the deep head clean before running check head alignment then print test page.

Mine just had a major software update to keep up with the Windows updates...have a look at that aspect, but it sounds like a hardware issue mostly. Clean the print heads, located on the bottom of the ink cartridge, with Q-tips soaked in alcohol; then check print head alignment form the Kodak utilities. Adjust as needed.