I have a Alps MD-1000 Printer,Windows EX Pro OP System and Using Adobe Photoshop 7.Trying to print picture on Alps Photo Realistic Paper. Using ink cyan,magenta,yellow & finish. TestPage (normal printing)OK, but when try using Photo paper and profiles as stated in the manual, I get red/orangish print with lines all down the page.
I think the printer is clean and I have nearly always had the line problem but not the colour problem. Please can you help.
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Can you provide more details about the problem? Will the printer print a self test page? What OS, computer, and cable connection are you using? The ALPS printers were designed to work with Windows 95 using a serial port internal to the motherboard. There is a driver that supports a USB port and Windows XP available. XP will automatically install the MS driver using the plug and play feature. The MS driver is useless and it shouldn't be used, but XP will default to it. Don't delete this driver, but rename. There are no native drivers for Windows 7 or higher.
Have you tried to install one of the colour cartridges in to the black slot and just do a mono print. The only problem then is that the colour cartridge could become contaminated, so only do this if you don't want to spend out for a new black cartridge. I know that on some printers you can do this. I have not had much to do with ALPS printers.
There are NO Windows 7 drivers for the ALPS MD printer. I've read that you can run an XP virtual mode on Win7 that allows you to use the printer. If you are comfortable tweaking the OS, it's a workable option. I picked-up an old (and cheap) laptop on Craigslist and printed my decals from there.
Make sure you have the standard ALPS ink cartridges in the printer (dark gray). I've seen people getting a flashing error light when trying to use the photo cartridges (dark blue) to print.
There isn't any Vista and Windows 7 drivers for this printer. The manufacturer still hasn't produced any. This is really sad because I have the same printer and I have to stick with XP just to be able to use it.
You can buy OKI MD 5000 Cartridges or Citizen Printiva Cartridges. Are the same. There are also resellers that sells only ribbons to exchange in cartridges. http://www.refillx.com/
You are running XP, and have installed SP3 and, you are using the microsoft driver bundled with XP.
The solution:
The m$ driver will have created a printer with "(MS)" as a suffix. Leave this intact, as it will cause major trouble on every reboot if you delete it. Download the appropriate driver from the Files section in the Alps YahooGroup found at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Alps/ With your printer unplugged, install the downloaded driver Shut down your computer and hook up the printer Reboot XP will detect the printer, and create a new printer in Control Panel without the "(MS)" suffix Make the new printer your default printer.
The reason why you do not delete the printer with the "(MS)" suffix, is because every time you reboot, XP will ignore the fact that you have the correct Alps driver loaded, and will create a new printer using the m$ drivers, and set it to default. Of course, the m$ Alps driver is fundamentally broken
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