C5180 Black ink problem in photos

Hi everyone, I have a photosmart c5180 which doesn't print the black properly when photo paper is fed into the printer, if I set the paper type to plain paper instead of auto or photo paper the black works fine, Is this a firmware problem or some colour setting i have missed.  It also does this when i print from windows, linux and direct from the memory card.
Message Edited by Evilmonkey on 10-22-2009 05:19 PM

Sorry no answer to your question but I have the same printer - how do you print on photopaper as opposed to a4 in the first place?
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