While printing pictures, the last part of the picture comes out reddish. have cleaned several times and is now worse. ink levels are all fine. what can fix this?

print heads need cleaning. check the tools/options maintenance for the print head cleaning option. It should be able to do a "self clean"

spacey49442,

It could be a corrupt file and certainly would not cause any problems to download and install the newest driver from the Kodak website. I have a tip at http://www.fixya.com/support/r6370947-install_printer_without_install_cd which will walk you through the process. The newest driver may have some features you do not have now.

If this does not solve your problem I would change the cartridge with a new unit. If you have been printing for several days the ink cartridge could be empty or the heads could be plugged. Ink cartridges do not last very long when printing pictures due to the high resolution used. This uses up the ink at a high rate. Also if you think about it, pictures have ink across the entire page, unlike a word document which only has a small amount of type.

Thanks for using FixYa and the great rating.

hardrocko

> the cyan and yellow do not come up

You've either got clogged jets, or those two ink-wells are empty.

If running a "cleaning" does not improve anything,
then try replacing the ink-cartridge.

use GENUINE cartrigdges

If it has been longer than 3 or 4 weeks since anything last printed, the problem may be clogged print heads. Run thru several cleaning cycles and see if anything begins to appear on the paper. If not, changing the ink cartridges may solve the problem. If it's been quite a long time since last printing, you may need new (and expensive) printheads. If that's the case, replacing the printer would be more cost effective. Sorry for the bad news.

Are the ink cartridges refilled or compatible? They may be defective.
Are they installed correctly (not in the wrong slots)?
** Note that even if they are replaced it will take SEVERAL pages before the quality returns

The Color printer catridge ink might be low . You nned to replace.

You need to clean the printhead of the printer to solve that

issue. Because everytime you print, excessive inks are going

to the printhead that's the reason why it's clogging the

system up. That's because Kodak printers is using

"pigments" as inks that's why Kodak printers are producing

high quality prints unlike other printers - a photo printed from

kodak could actually last for about 100 years. Now back to

your issue, you need to clean the printhead from the printer

but not manually. You could clean it by going to the

software of the printer namely the KODAK HOME

CENTER SOFTWARE. You need to click the "?" mark

icon on the upper right corner of the software window then

under the General Links select Maintenance then choose

Clean Printhead. Do it at least twice and then try making

prints. If that still doesn't work try calling Kodak Technical

Support Representative: 1-800-421-6699

I hope I have been some of help. ^_^

my epson rx580 was also printing too red.  tried the nozzle cleaning, etc. several times.    didn't work.  i used paper towels and dabbed underneath the ink cartridges (removed) with the help of chopsticks.  then i took q tips to get the corners and other areas that glistened with wet ink.
replacing the current cartridges didn't help, so i changed all the cartridges (i use generic, so it wasn't too much of a sacrifice and the old cartridges were almost empty).  and voila!  the colors were all working again.  so that seemed to work for me.

Hi Carol, Are these print jobs being sent from a computer or the Xray machine itself or are you scanning them?