The color is not printing true. When i print with my canon printer, colors are no where near true. I have been trying to print a red, cmyk: 0%, 100%, 100%, 10%, and the color is printing red-orange on matte paper. however, when i switch to my laser printer (using the same computer), i get a nice, deep red—the color i have been trying to get. the color also prints true on other brand printers such as epson. I am printing from adobe software, including acrobat PDF's, through illustrator, PS, and Indesign, as well as Mac's Preview software. none of these print true color through my canon ix7000.

Hi Angela

Well this is a problem with the cartridge and also the software.

Cartridge:
1. Try to clean manually and see if you are getting all the colors (C,M,Y)
2. Install back in the printer and try to clean from software

SYSTEM
1. Goto printer properties
2. Choose the color setting tab
3. check and see if you can find the color profile as RGB
4. Change it to CMYK profile

Restart the PC and try to print again.

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Have you heard of Wysywig? What you see is what you get?

Well on color pictures on you monitor you get wysinwyg what you see is not what you get. Monitors are backlit, so colors are much more vibrant than what a printer can generally deliver. Explore the printing properties of your priinter as there are adjustments that can be made to enable better quality and true to color prints. The paper you use to print out your pics is also important in producing color that is close to original.

When you view your pics on screen try adjusting the color hue to the point it becomes overcolored and try a few experimental prints to see what level of the slide is needed to be used to achieve a brighter more vibrant picture. I would also like to say that the Canon 210 , whilst it is a very good printer, is at the cheaper end of the photo printer scale.

Talk to your ink and paper supplier, they can often show you or recommmend printers that are much higher and more accurate in delivering brighter and true to color photos.

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Laser printers, although they have a larger color gamut than a CMYK offset press, still will not be able to reproduce a majority of Pantone special colors.
Professional inkjet printers, especially those using more than 4 inks, are far better at this - the ink pigments are more color-pure and concentrated than those in laser toners.
Remember, that Windows print drivers work in RGB, and use ICC profiles to convert color data to CMYK components for printer. If you have a CMYK file, and look at it on your monitor, it's converted (using monitor ICC profile) to monitor's RGB colorspace, and then back to CMYK with the printer ICC profile when printed. Converted twice with ICC, which always introduces distortions...
If you have a properly calibrated monitor, and a good printer profile installed, you have better chances of reproducing screen colors on the printer, especially if you work in RGB.
As a simple, but laborious solution, I would suggest preparing "swatch sheets" yourself using some graphics software. Preferrably in RGB, not CMYK. A series of gradients with the green component going from, say, half way to maximum, and other components in various combinations, like R0 B0, R10 B0, R20 B0,... then R0 B10, R10 B10, R20 B10... and so on. Print those, and try to find a spot in the gradients that is the closest to your color sample, and then make swatches with smaller increments around that color to find the best RGB combination.
Good luck :)

Try not to print in color try to print in black and white only.

Unfortunately it is all true.
Personally I would stay away from Lexmark, I am a Canon fan, the MP520 looks real nice, but it's personal choice at the end of the day.

replace the two ink caterage to a new one. it could be from the ink you refill that is if you refilled. bye

Hey, Sound like something is wrong with the color cartridge. Replace the color one and try again. If that fails you might have to replace the printer as it doesn't sound like the problem is software related.

We are experiencing something simillar with our imagepress. As far as I know, every heavily used Canon (or used for a longer period of time) tends to skew colors towards magenta a little bit. We are dealing with it by reducing magenta in color balance menu for all jobs on the printer, but the result is never perfect (especially in grey where is needed perfect balance of colors).

Hi,

Thanks for posting in FixYa.

Please check for the printer setting, if it is set for Fast Draft,

Make it Best or Normal. Also check for the Device Manager, if any flag showing.

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