On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 4:52 PM, rocky lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a Canon i9900 that is printing reds and pinks where it should be > printing grays. I tried flipping and switching color space and profiles, but > what it came down to was paper selection. > > If 'plain' paper is chosen, the colors print pretty close to what I see. > > If any other choice of paper, photo, photo glossy, photo matte, etc. is > selected, the images get a rose colored tint. > > I suspected a bad color profile, but then I switched the printer to another > computer and it repeated the tinting. On plain paper, it was fine. > On the others, the color was skewed. > > Any thoughts or ideas? I have seen this before with Canon printers. I am going to suggest that you remove the printhead, if it is user removable, and a number of Canon models do have easily removable printheads, and clean it out. Use distilled water. You can find instructions on how to do this on the internet. Said instructions may not be exact per your printer, but the methodology is about the same. Inject the water into the printhead, thus flushing it out well, let 'er dry, pop the head back in, load your carts and see what transpires. You can probaly find instructions of you search on something like "clean canon printhead." I have found these instruction previously, so I know they are out there and folks say it worked for them. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
