Colour faded I am having trouble with the colour of the prints. The colours a very faded and are not printing the right shade. eg red is like orange. I printed a top quality photo a couple of weeks ago, and not long after that I had to change some cartridges as they were low, and ever since then the colour has been right off. I have done a deep clean three times, and also printed out the test. The printer has 5 cartridges, a large black, small black, small cyan, small yellow and small magenta. The large black one is in perfect dark working order, and the others are very faded. Because the deep clean has not worked, could it be the printer head? If so, how do I go about getting one or having it replaced, and does anybody know how much something like that costs. Desperate for Help!!! Thanks

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Hi Desperate for help I had a similar trouble with my printer it turned out that when I bought a replacement ink tank they gave me a photo quality cartridge and you can't mix them you need all photo quality or all plain cartridges check for that hope this helps

Posted on Mar 28, 2007

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