Printed photos are coming out tinted blue.
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Printed photos are coming out tinted blue.
I've been trying to print photos from pics sent to me through e-mail, but they keep coming out of the printer totally tinted blue! I've never had a problem before when using this printer. The printer is an HP Photosmart 6400 working through a Dell Dimension 521. Anyone have any suggestions on how I might be able to correct the problem?
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Any time I've had color issues in the past it was due to one or more of the colors in the ink cartridge being low - you've ruled that out, I assume?
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I've never trusted the ink levels shown on the PC, I replace based on the results coming off the printer.
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Another thing to consider is whether your cartridge for the ink is genuine or not. You save a bit of money by going generic but in the case of printing you sometimes get very bad results. Also never refill the ink cartridge if you do you will be sorry as the ink then tends to leak and your printer is toast. I learned that the hard way so if the cartridge is generic consider replacing it with a genuine cartridge.
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Print a test page from the printer's utility app. It should print blocks of each color. If you can't do that, create and print a graphic in Paint that consists of six circles, each filled with a different color: Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow.
Also print a picture that you've printed before, preferably one from your hard drive. The emailed files could have some weird settings that are causing the printer to overreact to the cyan.
Also print a picture that you've printed before, preferably one from your hard drive. The emailed files could have some weird settings that are causing the printer to overreact to the cyan.
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I agree on the 'bargain' cartridges not being a good idea as well; I've had some of the cheaper ones not perform well right from the start.
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Thanks all! I scanned the alignment page, cleaned the nozzles (?) twice and ran a test twice. It looks to me, that I'm missing the color yellow. If it's there at all, it's very faint. I did manage to get one good pic by changing the color setting, but that was it! I'm getting horizontal lines now so I'm going to change the cartridge even though it still shows it's still half full. BTW, I'm using HP cartridges.
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Yeah, I always base the need for a new cartridge on what I see on the paper, not what the PC tells me - though I usually see the PC telling me to replace them before I see the need to do so.
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I agree with you Mitch17 I usually start seeing a warning to change the cartridge a great deal earlier than when you really need to start to change it. MrPop I am glad you are using genuine cartridges as those knock offs are no good.
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I usually get a warning ahead of time too. In this case, I think the cartridge went bad. I hope it's not a nozzle clog, because I went through the first and second stage cleaning and it didn't help. There is a third step, but I didn't go that far.