Photos printing out black

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Hi, which printer model do you have?
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Hello Experts,
I have developed some smartforms which have some boxes that are shaded with grey color for heading.
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see that the shaded boxes are displayed as solid black boxes on the print out.
I also tried to print it in color but invain. Even the LOGO also got blacked out.
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I don't know if u can't find out a solution.
All device output (printers) having the same divice type have the same behavior, i.e. printers having a different device type can give a different output, so if u'll correct the problem for a certain group of printers u could have a new problem for other group.
I think the best soltion is to use the printer used to test the smartforms
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Driving me crazy. School colors are purple and white. Anytime I print a photo of our football team, the purple turns out blue. HELP!!

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Printing is usually application/printer specific. In the 'Print' dialog box, there is a button that expands the whole dialog (blue box with a down arrow.) Click that (if it isn't already showing the preview of the printed page on the left and other settings on the right.
Make sure you have a printer selected, then, on the right side of the dialog, there should be options for copies, pages, etc. and a dropdown selection that shows the application that you are trying to print from. Click this application dropdown and select 'Paper Type/Quality'. Once that is selected, you should see an option for 'Color' and a dropdown beside it. Select 'Grayscale'.
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Black & White photos printing as purple

My wife was copying some historical black & white family photos. Six or so printed fine, then one photo changed from black & white to a purpleish tone at the 90% complete phase, only the bottom edge had changed colors. We loaded another black cartridge believing this was the cause, but to no avail. Now all Black & White photos are printing in purple.
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Copying is fine.
Scanning is fine.
But photo printing of black & white pictures results in the copies being 100% purple toned.
Why?
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The printer uses color ink to print black when printing on photo paper because the pigmented black ink is not compatible with photo paper. It appears you have run out of yellow ink. I would suggest the troubleshooting steps in the document here to resolve the issue. Be sure to check the vents on the yellow supply as shown in solution two.
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PAPER TRAY SUCKS. CANNOT PRINT OUT PHOTOS, TRAY ONLY ACCEPTS PAPER FROM BOTTOM TRAY. GRRRR.

My BRAND NEW (One week from delivery) no longer prints out photos. It printed out photos several times but 3 days' ago it stopped.
The paper tray is malfunctioning. Each time I try to print out a photo (remember, it's been done several times until a few days' ago) THE TRAY WILL NOT ACCEPT PAPER FROM THE TOP TRAY!!
SELECTED PHOTOS PRINT OUT ON PAPER FROM BOTTOM TRAY ONLY!! MY INK AND PAPER IS BEING WASTED AND SEVERAL OTHER POSTERS ARE EXPERIENCING THE SAME ISSUES WITH THE HP 6520!
Is one of those infamous 2-hr. long marathon phone calls to Tech Support in India the ONLY way one can sensibly have an HP issue resolved?
This is ridiculous!

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Sorry to hear you are having problems printing. What device are you using to print?
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I made and run a website for a local art group. iWeb works well for this purpose. I publish the site to our domain. The main site is for the public and a second site, password protected and reached through the main site, is for members.
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Having difficulty printing in black

All of a sudden my printer will not print in black, but every other color works. Any ideas why? We've tried two brand new ink cartridges. It isn't that. If I change the color of the font, it prints.

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Welcome to the HP Forums!
I read through your post about how the black ink is no longer printing from your Photosmart B210, and would like to suggest that you check out the articles I posted for you below. Go through all of the steps and try them in order, and if the printer still will not print out black, call us directly to see what your printer replacement options are with HP.
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Hi, Dana. Epson and Canon make a number of inkjet photo printers that are well worth considering, and nearly all professional photographers use one make or the other (or both). But you aren't looking for a professional-level printer, in all likelihood: I suspect you're looking for something in the $70-$300 range, yes?
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Just purchased a Photosmart Plus B210a cannot print a black & white photo, coming out green.

Just purchased a Photosmart Plus B210a cannot print a black & white photo, coming out green.
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This would indicate your magenta ink is not printing properly. Try the troubleshooting steps in this page.
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Printing with Black Cartridge Only option grayed out: Officejet 6000

Trying to print a black and white photo in gray scale using only the black ink cartridge, unfortunately that option is grayed out. Is there some setting that has to be chosen first before black cartridge only option becomes available?
I feel like I've tried just about every combination, but maybe I'm missing some minuscule, unintuitive step.
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Nope, its not a bug. When you choose borderless the print region actually becomes bigger than the page to make sure there are no white gaps. The ink that does not make it to the page is caught in a trough filled with foam just below the print zone.
The color ink is a dye ink (like food coloring). The black ink is a pigment ink - like carbon dust suspended in water. When it is over-sprayed in the trough it piles up until the pile of pigment starts dragging and smearing on the back of every subsequent page! Not good, so we do not allow the black cartridge to print when set to borderless.
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Printing a black & white photo

Hi all,
I'm not sure whether this is the right category but here goes.
I have scanned an old photo using my HP Photosmart C4580, into Photoshop and changed the now, sepia colours to black & white which is fine.
The problem arises when I then try to print it on the same printer, as it doesn't come out black and white, it is printing with a distinct blue tinge so obviously it is not using the black cartridge but is trying to cobble something using the colour cartridge.
Is there a means of forcing it to print in black & white, i.e. ONLY use the black cartridge.
Before you ask, I am on WIndows XP SP3 (which I don't think should make any difference) and I haven't tried removing the colour cartridge as I have a feeling that it might complain that it is missing a cartridge and then possibly get stuffed up when I put the colour cartridge back in.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
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OK, there are a few issues here. First, the cartridges are regionalized and there are four different regions and cartridges and printers are not compatible across the different regions. If you bought the printer in the UK and moved to New Zealand then you will need to Contact HP to request a "Regionalization Reset". There should not be any charge for this, it is covered as part of the cartridge warranty. You will need to have access to your computer and printer while on the line with HP. You will also need to have a set of cartridges for the new region, once the reset is complete cartridges from the original region will no longer work. HP's web page on the subject is here.
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Black: Contains pigmented black ink. This is excellent for plain paper text but is not compatible with glossy photo papers. The drop size is ~3x larger than the color or photo drops since this cartridge is optimized for text. When photo paper is selected this cartridge will not be used.
Color: Contains cyan, magenta and yellow dye based ink. The dye based ink is compatible with plain paper or photo paper.
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For your case a working color cartridge would likely print fine B&W photo's, but if you did a side by side comparison with a print made with the color and photo cartridges installed you may see an improvement.
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Photos are printing completely black?!

I have an HP D110 printer and an iPad running iOS 4.3.1. When using AirPrint to print photos, the photos are printing completely black. I restored the factory settings on the printer. Emails are printing fine using AirPrint. So far neither HP or Best Buy has been of any assistance. Please let me know if anyone has experienced this.

Does AirPrint allow you to manipulate printer settings on the iPad? Are emails in black and white only? Have you tried printing an email with something colored in it like text, or an avatar, or something? If emails aren't printing color, or can only be printed in black in white, the printer isn't getting the message to use color and is just blasting out the black ink. Somewhere there has to be a step you are missing (obviously) that should fix this. Dumb question, but you do have colored ink in the printer, right?

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