Photos pinkish and grainy whne printed and viewed

You didn't provide enough information so I'll try this.
If the color is off on your prints or on your computer screen when you try to view the photos from the card, you might check your computer's color setting to ensure that you have it set correctly, IE. ADOBE RGB, CMYK, etc. This is also the same potential fix for printing photos.

1. From the printer control panel, press the Photobutton.
2. Insert a memory card, flash drive, or digital camera set to mass storagemode.
If document files and image files are stored in the memory device, then pressthe arrow buttons to select Photos, and then press OK.
3. Press the arrow buttons to scroll to Easy Photo or Print Photos, and thenpress OK.
Notes:
• Select Easy Photo if you want to print photos quickly.
• Select Print Photos if you want to customize the photos before printing them.

4. Press the arrow buttons to select a photo printing option, and then pressOK.
Note: You can choose to print the most recent photo, print all the photos,print photos that fall within a date range, print photos by selecting the photonumbers on a proof sheet, or print pre-selected photos from a digital camerausing Digital Print Order Format (DPOF). The DPOF option appears only whenthere is a valid DPOF file in your memory device.

5. Adjust the print settings:
• If you are in the Easy Photo menu, then press the arrow buttons to select thepaper and photo . Press OK each time you make a selection.
• If you are in the Print Photos menu, then press the arrow buttons to selectthe photo , paper , paper type, layout, photo effects, and quality ofthe photos, and to adjust the brightness and color effects of the photos. PressOK each time you make a selection.
6. Press the Color/Black button to set a color or black-and-white print.
When you select color or black-only printing, the light near your choice comeson.
7. Press the Start button.For more info, you can also check the User's Guide for your printer. To access it, on your computer, click on Start > All Programs > Lexmark > S300 Series > View User's Guide.

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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from cnet review of the product

• Unfortunately, as with the Z1420, fast print speeds come at the cost of print quality with the Z1300. Black text prints, though nicely dark, were beset by obvious jaggedness. The color graphics print had a slightly faded look to it and color blocks showed graininess and faint horizontal striations. Barcode-style patterns were muddled, too. For our tests, we printed color 4x6 photos with the standard black and tricolor cartridges, as Lexmark did not include photo ink tanks with the test unit. The colors were dull, details were hazy, and again, the entire print was marred by graininess and faint horizontal lines. That said, nobody buys a $25 printer to print photos for framing or to create displays for a classroom science project. A $25 printer is a convenience item for occasional reference prints, and as such, the Z1300 does its job.

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Your printer software and the program you used to print the photo have settings to turn up the quality of the printer just for photos.
I suspect you just forgot to do that

I have one of theses D-Link PD-301U. It soes NOT support most All-in-one printers like yours. According to Epson's Web site, here are the Epson printers it supports (note the TX101 is NOT in the list):

• Stylus 5700
• Stylus 5700L
• Stylus 5800
• Stylus C60
• Stylus EPL-5500
• Stylus EPL-N2000
• Stylus EPL-N2010
• Stylus LQ-100
• Stylus LQ-300
• Stylus LQ-550
• Stylus LQ-570+
• Stylus LQ-1070C+
• Stylus LQ-2070
• Stylus LQ-2170C
• Stylus Color 400
• Stylus Color 440
• Stylus Color 460
• Stylus Color 480
• Stylus Color 600
• Stylus Color 640
• Stylus Color 660
• Stylus Color 740
• Stylus Color 800
• Stylus Color 850
• Stylus Color 860
• Stylus Color 900
• Stylus Color 1160
• Stylus Color 1500
• Stylus Color 1520
• Stylus Color 3000
• Stylus Photo 700
• Stylus Photo 710
• Stylus Photo 750
• Stylus Photo 870
• Stylus Photo 1200
• Stylus Photo 1270
• Stylus Photo EX
• Stylus Pro XL

Here is the link to page I am refering to:

http://support.dlink.com/faq/view.asp?prod_id=2135&question=DP-300U%20/%20DP-301P+%20/%20DP-301U%20/%20DP-311U%20/%20DP-G310%20/%20DP-G321

hi i think u took print in low resulution photo. pls check ur phot resulution.

Did you change any of the configurations on your printer. Most photo printers have color settings that are media dependent. It sounds like you might have it set to print on regular paper but not on photo paper. There are a lot of settings that you can accidentally change on a printer so I would suggest uninstalling the printer then reinstalling it and see if that is the issue.

did you calibrate it?

go to my computer or control panel on pc select printers and faxes right click on this printer down to preferences view tabs your should be able to change color preferences there