I printed a digital photo today. First I printed it on plain paper, just to make sure the size and positioning were right. It came out looking beautiful. Then I loaded my photo paper–Office Depot brand high-gloss premium photo paper–and my photo came out grainy and covered with white lines. My printer is a Canon Pixma iP4000. The software I used for printing is PhotoWorks 2.41. Any advice from you photo experts?
Printing a digital photo–what am I doing wrong?
15
Mar
live4hoping
March 15, 2010 at 11:21 pm
check your colored inks
tonycharms05
March 16, 2010 at 12:15 am
That’s weird. Because for most part, I get only those problems when the inkjet printer catridge is misaligned or if one of the catridge is faulty. But as you said, that it comes out fine on the plain paper , but grainy with white lines on the high glass paper, I’m suspecting couple things.
Make sure you set your paper selection (in print settings) to premium hi-gloss paper.
If that dosn’t work , leave it to automatic.
If that still doesn’t work, just change it to just regullar glossy paper instead of hi gloss or premium.
One of them should come out fine.
I would also say run the printer configuration test on the glossy paper, and see how it comes out (do all of the, alignment, clean, deep clean).
Finally if you have exhausted all options, just replace all the catridges with a new set. I had to do this couple times, when I had these white lines showing up during printing. Make sure you run catridge clean job before you use them.