Colour failure in printer.

My D4300 deskjet is not printing colour correctly (nothing wrong with text printing)......everything has a pink hue, even black white photos. don't know much about altering colour, but did take down the majenter to no avail, in fact it appears to not be delivering yellow......no orange or lime green features. I have replaced the cartridge but no change.
Any ideas?

Hello , Welcome to the HP Support Forums! I see you are trying to install your HP Deskjet 2520 to your Computer running the Windows 7 Operating system. When you try and use the printer you get an error 1406 installation error message. I would like you to start troubleshooting here: HP Printers - A 'Fatal Error' (MSI error) Displays on the Computer During HP Software Installation in Windows Please follow all steps in order, and make note of any messages that may come up. I will watch for your reply. Thank you,

Similar Messages

Problem printing PDF picture files imported from JPG using HP Colour InkJet cp1700 printer

When I print PDF picture files imported from JPG using an HP Colour InkJet cp1700 printer, the picture spills over. A wide range of other PDF files print OK. Have tried things such as configuring the printer to scale to letter size, etc,, but without success. Have a Windows 7 64 bit computer and Adobe Acrobat Pro Extended 9.5.5. Any ideas?

Hello there! Welcome to the forums @rt70
I understand you're having some issues with printing PDF files from a website on Windows 7.
I would personally suggest trying to print from that website using a different web browser. If you're using Internet Explorer, try FireFox or Chrome, for example.
You can also try running the Print and Scan Doctor tool, that will search and try and fix printing issues.
If you have any issues that continue, please let me know what they are and which programs, websites, and web browsers you have tried, along with the results from running the diagnostic tool above.
Good luck and have a great day
R a i n b o w 7000I work on behalf of HP
Click the “Kudos Thumbs Up" at the bottom of this post to say
“Thanks” for helping!
Click “Accept as Solution” if you feel my post solved your issue, it will help others find the solution!

Photoshop CS5 - colour settings in Print menu not working after update Mac OSX maverick

After upgrading to Maverick OSX on the iMac printing from CS5 via Epson R3880 is not working correctly. In Print Settings menu the drop downs for Colour and Colour Settings are greyed out. I already re-installed PS and installed the new drivers from epson. Any ideas?

but after choosing PS manages color, the options in the print menu for choosing color (color or b&W) and color settings are not available anymore. They used to be the last three years I printed with photoshop/epson 3880.
Instead they are greyed out now.
attached screenshot:
Op 30 mei 2014, om 01:47 heeft Chris Cox <[email protected]> het volgende geschreven:
Photoshop CS5 - colour settings in Print menu not working after update Mac OSX maverick
created by Chris Cox in Photoshop General Discussion - View the full discussion
If Photoshop managed color, then the controls in the printer driver are supposed to be grayed out - that's how Apple specifies drivers to work (because only one party should be managing the print color).
So what you're describing is perfectly normal.
Please note that the Adobe Forums do not accept email attachments. If you want to embed a screen image in your message please visit the thread in the forum to embed the image at https://forums.adobe.com/message/6420209#6420209
Replies to this message go to everyone subscribed to this thread, not directly to the person who posted the message. To post a reply, either reply to this email or visit the message page:
To unsubscribe from this thread, please visit the message page at . In the Actions box on the right, click the Stop Email Notifications link.
Start a new discussion in Photoshop General Discussion by email or at Adobe Community
For more information about maintaining your forum email notifications please go to http://forums.adobe.com/thread/416458?tstart=0.

A new black cartridge shows an allignment failure & nothing prints on testing

Installed new black cartridge my officejet 6500 it wont print.. on an allignment test, I get 6 color blocks, nothing else. I've allingnet it 6 times and no change It was ok before the new cart.

Hi @elainew,
Welcome to the HP Forums!
I understand that after inserting a new black cartridge, your HP Officejet 6500 shows an allignment failure & nothing prints on the test page. I am happy to help you with this issue!
Please take a look through this alignment failed guide, An 'Alignment failed' Error Message Displays on the Printer.
Hope this solves your problem!
RnRMusicMan
I work on behalf of HP
Please click “Accept as Solution ” if you feel my post solved your issue, it will help others find the solution.
Click the “Kudos Thumbs Up" to say “Thanks” for helping!

Aperture colour management vs Printer colour management

I am quite new to both Aperture & Mac, having moved over from PC and generally Adobe software. I shoot RAW mainly, on a Nikon 200 and use a Epson R1800 printer.
I have used a Spyder 3 to calibrate my screen and I am happy with the on screen images. However I have used both Aperture 3 and the Epson colour management to print a few versions and am struggling to get the same satisfaction on paper. Previously on a PC (sorry for that) I had few problems with matching screen to paper.
Any thoughts or similar experiences would be most welcome
Thanks

I think you will find in the dialogues for printing the suggestion to turn off printer control of the color, and simply allow Aperture alone to control. This is recommended.
Ernie

How do I turn off the printer colour management in printer drivers on my photosmart C7280

photosmart C7280
How do I turn off the printer colour management in printer drivers

HI whcotton,
You can click here to go to a post for help with disabling the printer color management for your printer. This person was having the same issue as you and the accepted solution worked for them. Hope you find this helpful.
If I helped you at all it would be great if you clicked the blue kudos star!
If I solved your post please mark it as solved to help others.
I'm a printer tech with HP.

Why does the K5400 use up colour ink when printing greyscale?

Please let me know why all K5400 printers use up the coloured inks when printing only grey scale, is there a way of stopping this waste of inks.?

There are a few possibilities:
The color drops are typically much smaller than the black drops so color is used for grayscale graphics unless "use black only" is checked in the driver. Depending on your operating system and driver this may be an option.
Black ink is generally not compatible with photo paper. If you are using photo paper only color ink will be used.
Color ink is used for servicing to keep the nozzles clear. See here for information on how ink is used.
Bob Headrick, HP Expert
I am not an employee of HP, I am a volunteer posting here on my own time.
If your problem is solved please click the "Accept as Solution" button ------------V
If my answer was helpful please click the "Thumbs Up" to say "Thank You"--V

How to improve or get the right colours for my printer

Hey guys, I have just used an EyeOne to configurate the right colours of my screen. Just that when I use Photoshop or I watch at the pictures, I want to see them as they really are. I've done it, but now I have the second problem. It works for sending pictures, for sending them to print... But my printer(an Epson) prints them too dark and too redish.... But my screen is just perfect.
Do you know how can I manage to configurate the way to change the colours of my printer with some app or some configurator??
Thank you very much for your answers.

Your EyeOne has calibrated the display, but you will also need print profiles.
First, without a printer profile, you will get the most accurate print by using the printer manufacturers, in you case Epson, inks and papers.
You can use alternative, but quality inks, and alternative quality papers. Wether using these or Epsons, you will need a print profile.
The print profile will usually make a much larger difference than just calibrating your display.You will need a different profile for each paper and ink combination you use. Some paper manufacturers supply downloadable profiles, but these will only be accurate if all of the Epson printers of your model have identical characteristics, this is rare, hence the need for custom profiles. Some paper manufacturers will supply you with a custom profile free, or you simply download the target image, print following their instructions precisley and post the printed target to them for a custom profile. They then email the profile back to you. There are also commercial companies that do this to. Another option is to purchase a calibrator that profiles your display and printer, but that tends to be expensive. Look here at various options here from just one of many suppliers http://spyder.datacolor.com/products.php.
Look here for options available from a typical paper supplier in the UK. http://www.permajet.com/30/ICC_Profiles.html. Then read these sections relating to the previous link.
What are ICC Profiles and why do I need them? CLICK HERE
What is the difference between a GENERIC and a CUSTOM ICC Profile? CLICK HERE
That should give you and idea of what needs undertaking for print colour accuracy.

Icc colour profiles by print labs

how can i set the colour printing profiles thas required by my on line print lab .thats needed for colour management used incolour profiles is ther ac to upgrade elements 12.this is required to go the correct colour when images are set onto a cd for printing to get the correct colour.

willspring,
Just to make sure: As I understand it, things worked in CS4, not only in earlier versions.
To reset settings in Illy, you may Move the folder, but it may not solve the issue (the simpler but less thorough resetting being to Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup).
Have you made any changes, such as printer driver or whatever, between success and failure?

Colour problems when printing - Photoshop image

I have created a small header image in Photoshop. It consists of a background with a number of layers using blue and grey (the grey colour is RGB: 202, 202, 202). I placed the image in InDesign and then converted to press quality PDF for printing. In InDesign I have also created a number of shapes (rectangles with rounded corners) which I have made the same grey colour (202, 202, 202). On the screen everything looks the same grey, however, when I convert to a PDF and print, the grey in the image I placed from Photoshop looks a completely different grey colour to the rectangular shapes I created in InDesign with the same background colour. The grey colour I am using is all 202, 202, 202.
I ahve checked colour synching in bridge and it is correct across the creative suite. I have checked output preview in Acrobat and they are the same. I have also checked profiles (assign profiles) in both PS and ID and they are the same.
The printer is an HP Colour laserjet 3800DN and when i do a etst print, the colours all appear to be okay.
Why when I print are there completely different shades of grey?

Hi,
Just did all that. I converted imager mode in Photoshop to CMYK and created a rectangle shape with the same grey colour underneath it and printed it directly from Photoshop. I then converted image to PNG and placed in InDesign, created a grey rectangle underneath the banner image and printed and finally I converted to press quality pdf and printed. All still have the same colour difference between the grey colours.
The weird thing is the Photoshop grey looks weird - kind of washed out with some magenta in it.
I am beginning to think it is printer problem.

Why are my identically coloured opaque images printing different colours? Is it a transparency issue

I have an object that is a plain white logo with a grey background - the file is a flattened psd file and has only the one layer.
when i place the logo into InDesign (CS5) onto a plain grey (the same colour as in the logo) background and print this simple combination, the grey background on the logo is a funny colour compared to that on the document background. they have the exact same RGB reference! they only appear different colours when printed; on screen they look great.
i thought that this was an issue with transparency and have tried playing around with having a transparent logo with no background and various transparancy flattener settings but nothings fixing the problem. the only thing that i managed to achieve was to make all of the grey one colour, but the funny coloured grey i was seeing just in the logo background!
when i go to window-output and check the flattener preview, i can see that i have no transparent objects whatsoever in my document.
any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated - its driving me MAD!
thanks,
becky

More to the point on this, I think, is that both RGB and CMYK values listed for any spot color are "best approximations" (many, perhaps most, spot colors have no good CMYK equivalent, and that would be true as well for some subset using RGB) using Pantone's unknown color space. Even in that space the probability of getting an actual match between the simulation and the true spot ink is close to zero. Using some other space makes things worse, and since there is no way to know the sapce in use at Pantone, you're kind of up the creek.
For CMYK converison you can do reasonably well by using the Ink manager to convert the spot to process and check the bok to Use Lab Values at the same time. For RGB, I have no idea how to come close, at all.

Setting that makes black text look colour to a printer

A quick sorry for not being totally on the ball with indesign (cs4), so please help me with simple wording if you can help as I am not a professional.
I created a colour booklet which was fine until I was asked to do it all again but this time with the outside cover being colour and the rest of the pages inside black and white. so this I did by changing all text, boxes, strokes etc in to black (not rich black just 100%K) and ran the jpgs through Photoshop to make them greyscale, so far so good. At this stage everything was as I needed it to be so I hit the export and saved a PDF version and sent the file. Now for the reason for doing this. My friend soon realised that printing colour pages on their works professional multi function printing device is expensive, as colour pages are charged for at higher price per copy compared to Black and white by the machines operator. Now for the problem: The booklet is being printed with a colour front cover and the rest is in black and white as I wanted it to be, but as far as the printer is concerned it is seeing the black text as colour so is charging for it. Ouch.
Of the few things I know of preferences I have made sure that it is not set to output all blacks as rich black which I thought would be the cure but it would not seem to be. I am at a loss to understand the other output settings or other stuff which may be telling the printer to use the colour cartridges instead of just the black. Help Please
If it is of help I made and exported a single page file in the same way with just a greyscale jpg on it and that printed just fine with the printer charging it as a black and white page as it should so the problem realy is in how the text is being seen.

OK, so where we are at the moment.
over the holiday I had the reason to re-format my computer which isn't such a bad thing as I got to reload Indesign which should have corrected any problems in the indesign preferences ( I would Hope) and set everything to its default:
On opening indesign for the first time I changed the appearance of black setting to display and output all blacks accurately.
I went in to bridge and set the suit colour settings to Europe general purpose 2 and synchronised.
As it looks now: I made a new file where I typed one word in black (Helo)
I checked the typed word with the separations preview, turning off the black and cmyk and the typed word disappeared which is a good thing as this means there is no other colour present on the page except 100%K.
I saved and exported the file to PDF as Press Quality, (the only other box ticked on the general page was the optimise for fast web view which I left alone and unchanged) I left all other pages in the export area unchanged from the defaults produces by the Press Quality preset
I sent the file off and guess what: the printer saw it as colour and charged it as colour.
Below is the summery produced in the summery page in the PDF export window
Description
    Use these settings to create Adobe PDF documents best suited for high-quality prepress printing. Created PDF documents can be opened with Acrobat and Adobe Reader 5.0 and later.
PDF Preset: [Press Quality]
Compatibility: Acrobat 5 (PDF 1.4)
Standards Compliance: None
General
    Pages: All
    Spreads: Off
    Generate Thumbnails: Off
    Optimise PDF: On
    Create Acrobat Layers: N/A
    Export Layers: Visible and Printable Layers
    Include Bookmarks: Off
    Include Hyperlinks: Off
    Export Nonprinting Objects: Off
    Export Visible Guides and Baseline Grids: Off
    Create Tagged PDF: Off
    Include Interactive Elements: Off
    Multimedia: N/A
Compression
    Colour Images
        Bicubic Downsample at: 300 ppi
        for images above: 450 ppi
        Compression: Automatic
        Tile Size: N/A
        Quality: Maximum
    Greyscale Images
        Bicubic Downsample at: 300 ppi
        for images above: 450 ppi
        Compression: Automatic
        Tile Size: N/A
        Quality: Maximum
    Monochrome Images
        Bicubic Downsample at: 1200 ppi
        for images above: 1800 ppi
        Compression: CCITT Group 4
    Compress Text and Line Art: On
    Crop Image Data to Frames: On
Marks and Bleeds
    Crop Marks: Off
    Bleed Marks: Off
    Registration Marks: Off
    Colour Bars: Off
    Page Information: Off
    Page Mark Type: Default
    Weight: 0.25 pt
    Offset: 2.117 mm
    Use Document Bleed Settings: Off
    Bleed Top: 0 mm
    Bleed Bottom: 0 mm
    Bleed Left: 0 mm
    Bleed Right: 0 mm
    Include Slug Area: Off
Output
    Colour Conversion: Convert to Destination (Preserve Numbers)
    Destination: Document CMYK - Coated FOGRA27 (ISO 12647-2:2004)
    Profile Inclusion Policy: Don't Include Profiles
    Simulate Overprint: N/A
    Output Intent Profile Name: N/A
    Output Condition: N/A
    Output Condition Identifier: N/A
    Registry Name: N/A
Advanced
    Subset Fonts Below: 100%
    Omit PDF: Off
    Omit EPS: Off
    Omit Bitmap Images: Off
    Transparency Flattener Preset: N/A
    Ignore Spread Overrides: N/A
Security
    N/A
Warnings

Pink colour cast when printing from iphoto

When I try printing from iPhoto to a Canon MG6150 I get a pink colour cast. The preview shows correct colour and I'm running out of paper with my attempts to sort it!
What has gone wrong as everything else seems fine?

Do you get the same results if you print the same photos from Preview? If not then it's definitely an iPhoto issue. If you get the same it's possibly more of a system issue or printer adjustment.
Check the Color Options (Printer) and Color Matching (iPhoto) settings in the print window. You might try tweeking some of them.
Your print window should have something similar.

Quality of pdfs and colour separations for printing purposes

Having created a 44 page document in Pages, I have exported it as a pdf file so that it can be commercially printed as an A5 magazine. I have used the 'best' option in exporting it as a pdf, but have no idea if that function conforms to PDF-X1A specifications. Is there any documentation that would define the pdf standards within Pages?
The magazine is going to be two colour (headers/footers/callouts etc to be blue). So would the Print: ColorSync (then save as a pdf) option solve the problem that one printer noted:
"I have looked at the pdf you have sent and all seems ok with the quality but the colours don't split to the two separations (i.e blue and black) only CMYK (which is for 4 colour printing). If this does become a print job then we might have to look and see if we can get the pdf's to be the correct colour split."
And would this also ensure that the black is a true black and not a CMYK mixture that might not print correctly in the end?
iMac 4.1 Mac OS X (10.4.4) MacBook 1.1; iPod Shuffle

Yes, this possibly could be a solution, but I did not want to have to buy another piece of software (ie Adobe Acrobat) to produce the newsletter. I like the control that I have over the magazine layout in Pages, but need to be able to ensure that the pdf file I create is of the appropriate quality. Exporting to 'Best' is probably okay, but as I am viewing the pdf using Preview I have little idea how the pdf will look to others. I have read posts that have had problems with the quality of the pdfs exported from Pages when opened with a Windows machine or using Acrobat, so I am trying to ensure that I don't experience similar problems.
iMac 4.1 Mac OS X (10.4.4) MacBook 1.1; iPod Shuffle

2 spot colour pictures for print

I have CS2 on a pc and can only seem to make pictures in RGB or CMYK (4 colour) this means the printers have to print in 4 colour. I want to print in 2 spot colour. How do I produce the appropriate artwork?
Many thanks

You either want a duotone image, or you want a grayscale or CMYK image with spot channels.
More about duotones here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-778ea.html
More about spot channels here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/WS9FD745D8-B3A1-4f3f-B6EA-15AF41749D34a.html

Colour failure in printer.

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for