Magenta troubles with Canon printer

[marc985]

I have a Canon pixma ip600d (windows xp) and It has been printing strange lately.

I called Canon customer support...of course they told me they couldn't help me because I was using HP paper instead of canon paper. Even though I told them that I had always used HP paper and this problem is new.

The problem occurs when I go to print anything on high quality or when i switch the paper from plain paper to photo paper.

Printing Standard quality (default) on plain paper (default) works fine all colors perfect.

In the page setup in any program when I switch the paper type to photo paper (any variety) or High quality print instead of standard my magenta gets overpowering..all photos turn pink...it is especially noticeable in the blacks.

It does this when i just change the print quality......and when i just change the paper type....it also does this when i change both to do a top quality photo print.


Any suggestions?

I've reinstalled the drivers...and ran all the printer maintenance tasks.

[contink]

Because you're using a paper designed specifically for HP printers you're going to find that other inks are going to have problems.

I'm not very experienced in the world of custom colour profiles but it sounds like that's where you need to be looking. I'm pretty sure there are a number of utilities and/or services out there that can help you develop the appropriate profile which will then compensate for the differences in ink and media and get things back on track but as I said I'm not much help myself.

This forum space (http://www.nifty-stuff.com/forum/viewforum.php?id=15) is dedicated to this sort of discussion so it may be a good place to start and Grandad in particular would most likely have the gen :)