Photos on card stock print with a single grainy band.

I'm using a HP Officejet 6310 printer. The card stock has a matte finish. Even after I set the print quality to maximum DPI and print, the band is still visible. There are lighter bands on the photo image as well. The problem doesn't occur when I print on plain copy paper.

Print in best mode, and use either premium inkjet paper, or brochure media, matte. The key is that you are not printed on a coated media, but simply paper pulp. Also, your media is whiter than regular plain paper, so you want to use either of the two aforementioned, as the colors they put down are assuming good bright paper.
Hope that takes care of you!
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Hello Rpatc.
Please try using the crop option in your software to see if cropping the image to your 9x6 size will help.
If you continue to have difficulties, please tell us if you are able to print standard 4x6, 5x7 or 8.5x11 sized images without any issues.
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Page #22 of the manual says (must be the same as photo paper ?):
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4. Slide the media guides in the tray to adjust them for the media size that you have loaded.
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Hi breannemk,
Welcome to the HP Support Forums! I understand you are not able to print card stock on your HP OfficeJet 8600, can you please let me know the Exact model of 8600 you are using as well as the Operating system you are running. Do you get error messages when you try to print them, if yes, please let me know the error messages you run into?
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Hi @klmrazek,
Welcome to the HP Forums!
I noticed that you are wondering how to set up your HP 7520 to print card stock off Avery 8859 design? I am sorry for the frustration, but happy to look into this for you!
From what I can find, the card size you are using is 2" x 3 1/2". This is an unsupported paper size with this particular printer. According to your printer specifications, here are the supported card stock sizes:
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Hope this information is helpful, and have a good day!
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PRINTING ON CARD STOCK

When attempting to print on card stock paper, the LJ 6500 ejects the (blank) card stock paper and then prints on the second page. Yes, I know...put the card stock as the second page. But, I would like to know why the AIO ejects the first page. The driver that I am using is a E710A-F.
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rak1up,
This article covers issues with blank pages:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01892627&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en
Give the steps listed under your operating system a try and let us know if it helps.
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Hi KRichBC,
Thank you again for answering my questions!
Checking over the printer's specifications, found at this website. HP Officejet Pro 8610, 8620, 8630, 8640, and 8660 e-All-in-One Printer Series Printer Specifications. This is a supported paper size at 8.5 x 11, if the paper type is Index Card Letter.
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