HELP! Epson 2100 huge Magenta Cast

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I had to print out some A4 posters tonight for a little event I'm covering tomorrow (gulp, first time and cr**ing myself!), and after making them up in CS2, printed them out on my Epson Stylus Photo 2100 only to find that it seemed whatever I tried they had a massive magenta colour cast. Just using fairly bright 120gsm paper, not trying anything clever.

Luckily for me I also have an Epson RX620, and they printed out ok on that so I've got what I need.

But can anyone point me in the right direction for what went wrong with the 2100 as it's driving me round the bend!

Thanks,
Frustrated of Binfield.
 
One ink out? or blocked in some way?
 
Pippy_Neville said:
Could be, I've not checked that. I'll check it, thanks.

Good idea, will try that tomorrow and see if it makes any difference. Thanks.
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Before you get wasting ink cleaning the heads, print off a " nozzle check pattern " this will tell you straight away if any nozzles are blocked.
 
I had this same problem last week and ended up taking all the cartridges out and refilling them etc etc...... to no avail then.....

Turns out when I upgraded to CS4 from CS3 the settings were different and it was set for the driver to handle the colours and the colour profile set to the monitor. By changing it to PS handles colour calibration AND setting the profile to Epson Photo paper it immediately worked again !
 
Bagger said:
Before you get wasting ink cleaning the heads, print off a " nozzle check pattern " this will tell you straight away if any nozzles are blocked.
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Thanks for the tip Bagger!

cowasaki said:
I had this same problem last week and ended up taking all the cartridges out and refilling them etc etc...... to no avail then.....

Turns out when I upgraded to CS4 from CS3 the settings were different and it was set for the driver to handle the colours and the colour profile set to the monitor. By changing it to PS handles colour calibration AND setting the profile to Epson Photo paper it immediately worked again !
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I'll check my settings Cowasaki, I've never been sure what you're supposed to put in all those profile bits at the bottom!
 
One thing that might have a bearing is the paper. A few years ago I was trying to print some mono shots onto non epson paper with an epson printer, and they all had a blue cast. A chat with my nextdoor neighbour, who had same printer, and tried again armed with epson paper, bingo, all fine. I pressume all this can be adjusted using the correct profile for both printer and paper :shrug:
 
Yv said:
One thing that might have a bearing is the paper. A few years ago I was trying to print some mono shots onto non epson paper with an epson printer, and they all had a blue cast. A chat with my nextdoor neighbour, who had same printer, and tried again armed with epson paper, bingo, all fine. I pressume all this can be adjusted using the correct profile for both printer and paper :shrug:
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I'll try and remember that. Don't think it should have been on this occasion though as printed out fine on my Epson all in one. Possible though, and I may have buggered up the settings.
 
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