oroblem printing photos

[Yaka]

have a printing problem with my canon ip1800 printer in both ubuntu and win7 even tho my pics are clear they are a bit misty and and if someone is wearing black dress it comes out as one tone of black no creases or shades etc.

 

[nath]

Are you using 3rd party ink?

 

[Yaka]

nope using standard canon ink

 

[nath]

Have you tried it from different machines - although I guess printing from different OS'es is probably good enough, it's doubtful a USB hardware fault would cause that.

Dunno really - run through the diagnostics software? Calibration utilities etc?

 

[Yaka]

tried 2 diff lapptops as well one xp and one vista same problem ive ran disognostics and done the cleaning nozzels thing thru it as well

 

[nath]

Sounds like it could be a warranty job - any chance it's under 2 years old?

 

[SheepCow]

Has it always done that or is it a new problem?

 

[Chilly]

is it a dirt cheap, shit printer?

 

[Bahumat]

Are the people wearing misty clothes and your eyes struggle when looking at the monitor?

 

[old.user4556]

This could be a myriad of problems from it being a shit printer through to the printer not being calibrated to your screen. What colourspace has the photo been taken in, what what colourspace is the printer setup to be?

Have you tried getting a print done at Tesco or Boots to see if it comes out as you expect?

 

[Bodhi]

Judging by your topic title you could try pressing Ctrl-P rather than Ctrl-O?

 

[Yaka]

heh

its over 2 years old picked up from a pcw sale, £40 or somat. its never done this before, and yep i tried my mates printer same model, and its as it should be. when mine was tried on his same problem.


think it may be time to junk it and get a new all in scanner/printer jobbie

 

[Embattle]

Junk time, like most inkjets would cost more to fix than replace.