Canon Pixma IP2600 faint printing

[wilaweeze88]

I'm printing photos from my IP2600, but the print quality is much fainter than that on the screen, almost with a white hue over them. I've installed new cartridges, both black and colour, ran a deep clean and checked the nozzles (and the test print comes out perfectly.)

 

Any idea why my photos are so faint? I've tried to play about with the darkness settings to see if that helps but don't seem to be getting anywhere. Anyone got a solution or ideas?

[Ray1000]

You have probably checked the printer settings in "Properties" to make sure they are set to "best" as opposed to "draft" or whatever the Windows 7 equivalent terms are.

 

Ray

[wilaweeze88]

Hi Ray - Yes, It's on the highest quality print option available and I have selected photo paper too (not that that should make a difference) but just in case.

[Plastic Nev]

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Are you printing on the correct photo paper, pictures on ordinary paper will appear of lower quality and a little washed out.

 

Nev.

[wilaweeze88]

I'm using high quality glossy AGFA photo paper

[KenB]

Hi

 

It may be worth un-installing the drivers and re-installing them again.

 

 

If you don't have the installation disk the drivers are here:

click here

 

If you need more advice please ask :)