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Photos printing red! - help, please

ampersand
ampersand Posts: 9,624 Forumite
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It's a new problem - never had it before.
The image is as it should be-despite being every shade of red- and was printing perfectly a couple of days back, but not now.
Suggestions please?
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  • isofa
    isofa Posts: 6,091 Forumite
    Cartridge running out? Does anything else print like this?

    Printer driver set to print in one colour / duotone?
  • kwikbreaks
    kwikbreaks Posts: 9,187 Forumite
    Have you checked your ink levels? Sounds like one or more of the colours has run out.
  • ampersand
    ampersand Posts: 9,624 Forumite
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    edited 6 May 2009 pm31 5:01PM
    Ink's fine. Have just turned printer off and on again, will try again - wasteful of photo paper! And me a meany re:such.
    ############
    No, can see even as it's coming through that image is every shade of red still.

    Isofa - I'm putting your comment here:
    Printer driver set to print in one colour / duotone?
    Could you explain please? - then I'll try that.
    No other problems at all.

    Back shortly - just out for a bit to fetch more new girls's eggs[they're learning still, so their eggs aren't big yet]
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    ***JE SUIS CHARLIE***
    'It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere' François-Marie AROUET


  • spakkker
    spakkker Posts: 1,322 Forumite
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    Perform a nozzle check in your printer's maintenance section - just use plain paper.
    Try and print eg. - http://www.photoden.com/images/PrintTestPhoto.jpg
  • bookworm1363
    bookworm1363 Posts: 812 Forumite
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    If you have plenty of ink, likely to be a blocked nozzle or more. Clean them up, that should do it. ;)
  • isofa
    isofa Posts: 6,091 Forumite
    Try printing something else, and see if it has a colour cast.

    If it does it's the printer driver or the ink/nozzles.

    Some advanced drivers can be set to print in greyscale, or specific colours, e.g. only in cyan, only in yellow etc, check the properties of the printer, but it's unlikely for a home users printer.
  • ampersand
    ampersand Posts: 9,624 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    Right, printed the Grauniad piece on Joanna Lumley+Gurkhas, with pic, which is certainly reddish, compared with photo as shown in article.
    I'm not sure what a colour cast is - assume you mean the prob. I've described.
    Can't now seem to find the clean nozzles bit - have been reading my Troubleshooter and looking online for 'printing red' type answers. Found one similar, but that was to do with someone trying to print b/w.#
    Shall keep trying, but would appreciate ANY simple step-by-step idiot help, thankyou. I don't understand a large no. of techie terms, abbreviations used online, so they are useless to me.
    CAP[UK]for FREE EXPERT DEBT &BUDGET HELP:
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    Norman Kirk, NZLP- Prime Minister, 1972
    ***JE SUIS CHARLIE***
    'It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere' François-Marie AROUET


  • ampersand
    ampersand Posts: 9,624 Forumite
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    Hello Spakker,
    From here:
    http://www.photoden.com/images/PrintTestPhoto.jpg
    everything is redd/pinkish, with yellow wheregreen or blue should be.
    e.g. nothing green or blue-ish in accordance with images/charts as shown on Test page.
    Whither next?
    CAP[UK]for FREE EXPERT DEBT &BUDGET HELP:
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    ***JE SUIS CHARLIE***
    'It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere' François-Marie AROUET


  • spakkker
    spakkker Posts: 1,322 Forumite
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    ERRM!-I'm actually colourblind and to work out which colours are missing is harder for me than when it's simple addition of colours -I'm sure someone will be able to work out which colours are wrong on your printer. But it sounds like cyan to me.
    List your printer make and model .
    http://www.nifty-stuff.com/forum/ -This site has helped me in the past , or just google printer model and problem.
  • ampersand
    ampersand Posts: 9,624 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    Oh, so sorry - feels like I've made social faux pas of worst order.
    Printer is Epson RX425
    CAP[UK]for FREE EXPERT DEBT &BUDGET HELP:
    01274 760721, freephone0800 328 0006
    'People don't want much. They want: "Someone to love, somewhere to live, somewhere to work and something to hope for."
    Norman Kirk, NZLP- Prime Minister, 1972
    ***JE SUIS CHARLIE***
    'It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere' François-Marie AROUET


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