I've noticed the same here in UK. Staples has no Canon printers at all. As for the new Kodak printers, there are a lot of very poor customer reviews & a lot of serious complaints (search the net). Seems they're very poor quality. I had a Kodak photo inkjet about 4 years ago (can't remember the...
If the smears are not due to the print cartridge/heads (you say they are new), then I would guess its due to dried ink on the underside of the head carrier. You can buy printer cleaning sheets which are impregnated with some sort of cleaning fluid, which you run through the machine a few times...
Hi Rodney,
Ink - check out the recommendations throughout the forum.
Monitor calibration - If you're being perfectionist, you will have to spend money on a hardware calibration device. You might like to try Atrise Lutcurve (http://www.atrise.com/lutcurve/) as a cheaper alternative.
Scan and...
Hi, and thank you for your warm welcome.
Glad to hear it worked.
Seems some printer/paper combinations don't work too well straight out-of-the-box. My problem only occurred with Kodak paper, Epson & Ilford were fine. I can only speculate that, in their search for rich saturated colours, some...
Hi.
I had a similar problem with Epson r200 & (believe it or not) Kodak Ultima paper. Problem solved by raising the black point (in Qimage) before printing. BP can also be adjusted in Photoshop, but save result as a separate image. It won't look right on screen (too light), but will print fine...