HP Photosmart A616- Photo printing colour has too much blue tone

Hi,
I have a HP A616 photosmart. It was purchased a while ago, as well as the ink cartiage. Recently when I set it up to try on the printing quality, I realsed all photos that I printed contain too much of blue tone in them. I can still see the different colour in each photo but they are covered by a layer of blue colour on them. I didn't chose black& white or other colour function. Just the normal printing quality.
Has anyone experience the same with this device? Or any soloution or what way go wrong?
I was thinking could it be due to the ink cartiage used? It was stored for almost a year before I took it out to use.. will storing ink cartiage for a long period of time could damage the ink???
Thanks for anyone who can reply to this query.
SL

Hi Matt
Are the ink levels ok? You could try checking the cartridges are vented properly. More details in the link below
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c02142902&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&product=4021935&tmp...
Please let me know how you get on
Thanks, Ciara
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