Help! What is wrong with this picture?

WGP · Jul 5, 2003

I have a Canon S800. Been printing photos on it and have been very happy. Below are crops of two pictures. (I am limited as to the size of a jpeg that I can upload). The first is the pricture that I am trying to print. The second is a scanned image of what was printed. I tried printing with QImage and with PSE 2.0. Both printed the same. Where is all of the brown coming from? I have done maintenance on the printer and that had no affect.

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Scanned image of what was printed

SteveB · Jul 5, 2003

Using the dropper tool in PSP8 there's too much red and not enough green at low RGB values (high ink volumes). As for the reason, no idea really but I suppose the most likely reason is a partial clog.

WGP said:
I have a Canon S800. Been printing photos on it and have been very
happy. Below are crops of two pictures. (I am limited as to the
size of a jpeg that I can upload). The first is the pricture that I
am trying to print. The second is a scanned image of what was
printed. I tried printing with QImage and with PSE 2.0. Both
printed the same. Where is all of the brown coming from? I have
done maintenance on the printer and that had no affect.

Original image

Scanned image of what was printed

Surfside · Jul 5, 2003

WGP said:
I have a Canon S800. Been printing photos on it and have been very
happy. Below are crops of two pictures. (I am limited as to the
size of a jpeg that I can upload). The first is the pricture that I
am trying to print. The second is a scanned image of what was
printed. I tried printing with QImage and with PSE 2.0. Both
printed the same. Where is all of the brown coming from? I have
done maintenance on the printer and that had no affect.

Original image

Scanned image of what was printed

I don't have a cannon printer. My older Epson printer used to do that occasionally. Even after printing several good pictures in a row. My printouts looked similar to yours. It always needed a nozzle cleaning. Then it printed fine again.

Just my guess.

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Rex In Brazoria · Jul 5, 2003

Clogged cyan printhead

Rex

WGP · Jul 5, 2003

Rex In Brazoria said:
Clogged cyan printhead

Rex

I don't think so. When I do a Print Head Alignment, the cyan prints just fine. Now I am getting a white band thru the photo magenta, even after cleaning. But if the cyan was clogged, I would think that the Bluebird would be affected. But then again, if I really knew what I was talking about, I would not have posted this question.

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