Photo color

A friend took our wedding photos using a professional digital camera, when I look at the pics on my macbook pro in iphoto the colors are perfect. When I have taken them to a photo lab to print they are very purple in color and disappointing (as they are when i look at them in flickr) - I had a photo book printed using the apple product and the color was fine. I tried using iphoto to order prints but they came back purple. Very disappointed as I cant find anywhere I can have my wedding pics printed.
Any suggestions?

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In addition to the regular ink cartridges (Color 95 and Black 98) I got the photo ink cartridges recommended (Gray 100 and Photo Color 99). The #100 cartridge fits fine, but the Color Ink Cartridge 99 will NOT fit, yet the package lists the H470 as a compatible printer for this cartridge.
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What do I do now?
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Here is some additional information from a previous post I wrote that explains the choices for color, photo and photo gray cartridges.
This can be simple or complicated depending on your threshold for "best" photo's. I will describe the various cartridges and their uses, then suggest a few options.
The 98 cartridge is pigmented black ink. It is used for printing text and some plain paper of inkjet paper graphics. It is not compatible with glossy photo paper and is not used for printing on these media. This will be the best choice for printing text.
The 95 cartridge is a tri color cartridge containing cyan, magenta and yellow dye based inks. It is suitable for printing on plain paper or photo media and can print respectable photos. When printing graphics the 95 cartridge may be used to print black in some modes because the dot size for the 95 cartridge is smaller than the 98, so the 95 can produce better looking grayscale graphics than the 98.
The 99 cartridge is a photo cartridge and is swapped with the 98. It contains light cyan, light magenta and photo black dye based inks. Unlike the 95 cartridge the 99 cannot produce the full range of colors by itself, it must be used with a 95 color cartridge. When printing photo's the 99/95 combination can give better results in light areas sugh as sky tones and faces. The results may be less grainy than when using the 95 cartridge by itself. While the 99 can be used to print text it will be a poor choice as the dye based ink is not as good on plain paper for printing text.
The 100 is a photo cartridge and is swapped with the 98. It contains dye based black, gray and light gray inks. The 100 cartridge can print excellent B&W prints by itself. When used with the 95 cartridge it can provide better detail in dark areas than the 95 by itself.
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99/95 Best for photo printing on photo paper. Less graininess than the 98/95 combination, this will be most noticeable in light areas such as facial or sky tones. Can be used for plain paper printing but not really optimum for this.
100/95 Best for B&W photo printing on photo paper or enhancing color prints. May be better detail then the 98/95 or 99/95 combination, especially in dark areas.
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Elf1elf wrote:
…All of a sudden, starting last week, when I open a folder in bridge, I can see in the thumbnails that the colors are OK, but very shortly thereafter, and/or when I click a thumbnail to preview an image, it drastically changes the colors in both the thumbnails and the preview.
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