Printer Suddenly Prints out Everything with Bluish Tone

[Walay]

Hi,

I have a Epson printer, firstable no ink head is cloged.
All ink colors comes out fine when using printer head test printes.
Paper are good papers, and Ink are original epson inks.
I have check my ICM profile and seems correct.
As the printer prints the Same with or without ICM adjustment (all with too much bluish tone)

The problem happend last week, but went away for couple days.

Suddently It adds more blue to all prints, except from the printer test page.

Excluding Black and Pure white, everything is blue in grey area.

For colors, e erything is in bluish tint, only way to correct it was to correct the images so that all red and yellow are high...and blue to low.....which is wrong because I know wat colors my image r suppose to be on monitor and on printer.

Does anybody have similiar problem? Is it HardWare or Software?
Thats all I need to know, cause if its software, i'm gonna reinstall my windows after this week anyways.

 

[farmercal]

You could eliminate the question of hardware or software by trying to print with different programs. If you are thinking that it is your operating system, I wouldn't think that has any control over quality of print. You might want to check the print settings in the control panel. My guess would be that the printer has the problem, how old is the printer you are using?

 

[Walay]

I have the printer for over 2 years....its a epson 1280

 

[yhelothar]

Did you just change the ink?
Once this happened to me, except everything was very magenta.. turned out I accidently misplaced the magenta in the yellow, and the yellow in the magenta...

 

[mooojojojo]

Maybe a longshot but perhaps your monitor is set to a warm temperature and you're expecting warm prints from the printer too when it is printing the correct tones? Most likely I'm wrong, but if the blueish cast is not very strong.. who knows!

So the Epson nozzle check comes out alright, right?

 

[Walay]

Thanks for the help, I solved the problem...it was a weird one.

for some reason The Nozzle check come out alrite. but yellow and magenta turns out light.....so i took the ink out replace with new ink and cleaned all the connections and everythign....and run the head clean gazilion times....and now everything prints out beautiful again....

not sure if it was inks problem, heads problem or wat.....since i did everything at the same time.

 

[Macro2]

Sounds like you had airlocks in the Cartridges. Next time get a Canon.

 

[Bucksnort]

If I am not mistaken the epson print head is seperate from the cartridges unlike HP which has the print head incorporated into the ink cartridge so when u replace the HP ink you get a new print head also. You need to replace your print head.

 

[mooojojojo]

Macro2, not to start a flame war, but Canons are not the answer to all questions. For instance the Canon at my work can't print for sheot, but the Epson I have at home prints beautifully. The only thing with Epsons is to not let them get clogged - you have to print at least one a week.

That and some Canons are just plain ugly

 

[Macro2]

Which Canon do you have and what are your trying to print..and the paper?

Sometimes ugly is beautiful on the inside.
I admit, Canons aren't the coolest loonking on the outside. Espons look nice, would be my second choice.

 

[mooojojojo]

The Canon we have at work is fairly old, 3 years perhaps, and wouldn't print at all. They tried fixing it by replacing the cartridges and maybe the printhead too, but that didn't help. Granted that's not a fair comparison to the new printers, I'm sure there are nice Canons, but what I don't like is the general consensus on the forum that Epsons are garbage.. my experience with my current one is great, maybe I'll think different when this C62 dies for no reason as my old Stylus 580 did

Forgot to mention about the printer at work - printing color graphics. High-res paper, on photo paper on plain paper - it's all the same, the printer is basically dead. The model is perhaps S6000 or something along those lines, not sure.