Canon pixma mp240 printing hazy pictures. The photo is clear on my monitor, but is not printing with clear color contrast and skintones all look red/orange. Most noticeable is that when I printed my pics they turned out very hazy. THe black colors looked more grey and not really black. The whole pic looked very light. On my monitor and camera the images looked well exposed. I found I had to over increase contrast and then print the picture to get a good result. What do I do?

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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recalibrate the printhead, clean the printhead. In the printer driver you need to select the right paper.

Why would you buy a COLOR printer but only want to print in black & white?? Since its designed to be a color printer, it will only work with both cartridges installed.



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If you're using a good photo software there are many adjustments. I use Canon printing software, and Photo Gallery that you can get with Windows Vista. Most all have a place to adjust contrast brightness, color, hue, and even cropping and enlarging. In control panel, printer properties, printing preferences you can adjust all of these in there.

no both are different
Here are the list of cartridges u can use
MP210
PG-30 Pigment Black
PG-30 Pigment Black Ink Cartridge
PG-40 BLACK
CL-31 Color FINE Ink Cartridge
CL-41 Color
MP240
PG-210 Black Cartridge
CL-211XL Color Cartridge
CL-211 Color Cartridge
PG-210 XL Black Cartridge

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.

Inkjet printer quality
(Longer bars indicate better performance)
Photo Graphics Text Canon Pixma iP1800
Good Good Good Lexmark Z1300
Fair Fair Fair Lexmark Z1420
Fair Fair Fair

Some nozzles could be burned out on the printhead, and you need to make sure you have no photo inks installed where regular inks should be. Photo magenta prints much lighter than regular magenta.

This is a frequent complaint and only high-end equipment provides the necessary tools to correct the differences between display and printed output.

If the output is otherwise pristine, you can't do much about it, although if there are clear defects (streaks, etc), you might try running the provided cleaning routine on the printhead.

If you play with the brightness and contrast controls of your monitor, you will see that these can influence the color and saturation of what you see and the printer is not capable of seeing the same thing as you.

find on the net an adjust software (eg. Nokia test), it helps you on dealing the problem...