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Does anyone know why I get a magenta cast across the top 1-1/2" of a photo printout using Epson Stylus Photo 1400 and PhotoShop Elements 7?  Tried cleaning/aligning printhead without success. Epson says I should turn off the printer's color management and let the printer manage the colors and NEVER to use Print Preview.  This doesn't help either.  It seems to get better after printing 4-5 sheets, but I sure waste a lot of expensive photo paper.  Would appreciate any advice.

Thank you for the suggestion.  I can almost definitely tie the problem to the printer because the "pink cast" happens with other software.  What I don't know is what PSE settings are recommended for printing good PHOTOS ... allow PSE to control the printing or allow the printer the control?  If I set it to allow PSE to control, directly under that option there is a question: "Did you remember to enable color management in the printer preferences dialog?"  Okay, then what do I set it to?  Color Controls, Photo Enhance, or ICM?
If I set it to Color Controls, I get a choice of Epson Standard, Epson Vivid, or Adobe RGB.  If I set it to Photo Enhance, I get the Auto Correct for "Tone" which could be changed to Sepia, grayscale, etc.  If I set it to ICM (which stands for what?), I get choices for Driver ICM (Basic), Input Profile (sRGB...), Intent (Perceptual), Printer Profile (Epson Standard).  The choices under each category come up as what I have in parenthesis, but there are more.
What I really want to know is (if you know) what the Adobe PSE recommendations are when they ask the question: "Did you remember to enable color management?"
I appreciate all your help, hatstead, and if you could answer the question above, it would be very helpful.  But I realize the underlying problem is with the printer.  Maybe it needs a good professional cleaning.
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