Canon MG5250 printing black as blue when using photo paper

[ThrillaMozilla]

But when I tweak the colour balance in the printer driver and get a good result viewed in real or simulated daylight, colours are different viewed in tungsten or LED light. And vice versa.

Maybe metamerism is part of the problem?

Yes, it is metamerism. My Pro 9000 Mk II is terrible for that. Middle grays come out with a pronounced reddish cast in tungsten or LED, but OK in daylight or skylight. When the print is still damp, the gray areas look like an eggplant. Really bad. I achieved a reasonable compromise and sort of fixed it with one print by adding cyan, using exactly the procedure The Hat showed in the previous post. I wasted a lot of paper but it's still not perfect, though. Some areas are just right, while others are probably too cyan.

One fellow on DPReview thinks the culprit is the cyan ink, and I think that's probably right. He wanted to do a test scan but alas, I never sent him the print. In contrast, B&W works perfectly well on my very ordinary HP--as long as you use Canon paper. (If it thinks it sees a B&W print--even if it's coded in color--and it sees the HP bar code on the back of the paper, you get a brown print.)

Software is the other problem. With the OS, the printing software, and the driver all tussling with each other for control over color, software is a nightmare. I never did achieve satisfactory control over exactly which component was managing which color space. That's way too much to troubleshoot. The printer is sitting in a corner unused.

Phil, you'll just have to excuse us for running on about this. It's obviously a common problem, but it's probably not your problem. You really need to post a test print/nozzle check.

 

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