Printer color not in sync

I am having a problem with how my Canon i9900 printer has been printing. Some of the colors are faded.It was working fine, and now all of a sudden the colors are off. The problem seems to be occuring during the print preview stage. The pics are fine until I put them in preview, then on screen the faded colors show up. I changed my profiles all to the same profile, yet they still do not match up. I do not know what else to try. It happens regardless of what program I use to print, I have tried PhotShop, iPhoto, and Canon's own program, Easy PhotoPrint. Can anyone out there help me? My wife runs a small business making scrapbooks so she needs the printer. Thanks.

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