My MP610 printer is playing up! When I print in colour on photo paper there are lines through the colour. I have tried running all the maintainance programms and cleaning everything etc but to no avail - any ideas?

Try leaving on same settings as normal paper, it may be over compensating.

Two possibilities come to mind:

1. There is a function in many printers that lets you print in the single colour of your choice. Check every tab and every "advanced..." dialog box you get when you are about to print. Then go to the printer's properties in the control panel and check whether there's anything like that
   
2. Many printers let you print black with black ink, OR alternatively make black by mixing the other three colours CMY. Look for that setting in the same places and deactivate it

make sure all colors are printing correctly.perform nozzle check and sample is not correct then perform head clean

Hi

This could be either a leak from colour cartridge or could be because there is still some blue ink in the printer from the last colour item printed?

Checked ink cartridge's, two had dried out, still had ink in them but the exit apertures were blocked.
So new set of ink cartridges and problem fixed.
Thank you
Jim

make sure you are using photo quality papers and your printer catriges are proper no dusty nozzle head.try to clean catridge print head with tissue papers and see the results.

try removing the black cartridge and with a q-tip and some rubbing alcohol clean the cartridge where the ink is. Re-insert and clean the heads.

Do you have photo cyan or photo magenta installed? your machine does not use these inks, and will give wrong colors. You need plain magenta and plain cyan. If you are using generic inks, they could have bad colors too.

there r various modes in the printer in which u have to print .and that u have to select.as you said it is printing properly on ordinary paper.the printer is perfect.the photo paper have less soaking power that ordinary paper.as the photo paper can consume ink but not so quickly as ordinary paper.
u just change that printmode and then check out how it prints.
for example the modes r ----------best mode printing.
better mode printing.
fine mode printing
normal mode printing.
draft mode printing
economy mode printing.
now i f u print in best mode it will consume lots of ink but will take lots of time to print.
if u select normal mode it will consume less ink and print quickly.

u can change the settings in printer properties.
thanks

have you played around with the print settings at all?

are you using Canon Cartridges or are they refills and is this plain paper or are you using Canon photo Paper?

If you do a nozzel check is that coming out all ok?