Canon i860 color issues

[Anubis]

this printer has been great for me for almost 6 months now, but today i was making alot of prints and had to change inks, i changed them all as they ran out
I replaced them with Geuine canon Inks i got from staples

BCI-6BK - Black
BCI-6Y - Yellow
BCI-6C - cyan
BCI-3eBK - Black
BCI-6PM - Photo Magenta



now all was fine untill i replaced the Cyan and Megenta inks, Now when i make a print it is lacking red, i tested this pu printing a red page from photoshop R-255,G-0, B-0, and it came out orange

i cannot figure out what is wrong, i cleaned the heads aligned them.... all that stuff yet it still happens, only think i can figure is that one of them isnt getting through correctly and IDK how to fix that

all of the inks are compatiable with my printer and are the exact same models as the ones that came with it when it was purchased
anyone here has any ideas before i call canon on monday?

 

[Anubis]

apperently it cant make greys because i tried printing a grey page and it came out green

 

[Adul]

try reseting all your color catridges

 

[Zepper]

You have the wrong magenta cart - you should have bought BCI-6M, NOT -6PM! That's Photo Magenta - some in-between shade that is only usable on their machines with 6 ink carts. A pretty lame mistake for someone with 24000 posts - perhaps more time spent reading manuals and less on the forums, eh...
.bh.

:moon:

 

[Anubis]

actually ive had teh PM color work fine for me before, this is the first time it hasent

 

[LED]

Originally posted by: Anubis
actually ive had teh PM color work fine for me before, this is the first time it hasent

How many times B4? because that maybe why it's not working properly now... as Zepper mentioned it is not made for the i860, rather the Photo Printers that handle the Photo ink along with the standard Magneta and Cyan (ie. i960,i9100,i9900)

 

[SilentRunning]

As they have said you have the wrong magenta. Photo magenta and photo cyan are not used by this printer. They are only used in addition to regular magenta and cyan. The photo magenta and cyan are just very light versions of the regular magenta and cyan. In printers which used them they provide more color range.

One thing you can try as a stop gap measure is under the main page of your printer properties set the color adjustment to manual. Then click on the set button for color management which brings up the manual color adjustment page. Move the magenta slider right to about 25, run a small test, and adjust the level up or down from there.

EDIT: If it works just remember you will use the cartridge up must faster than if you had the proper one.