Purple? Inaccurate printing colors.

[nokarakeeb]

Hi,
I have a shared HP F2230 all-in-one attached to my mac running leopard 10.5.5. I have been printing regular MS Word black and white documents fine from my other Windoze vista / 7 Beta computers. Tried to print a colored photo but the colors are inaccurate and all the blacks turn into purple! This happens regardless of the application in windows (Paint, MS publisher, and even printer test page!) I tried to print the same photo in the mac and had no problem. I attached a photo of the print out from my windows 7 beta machine.
Tried to reinstall drivers, restart printer, restart mac, but it didn't work. Any ideas?

Thanks for your help.

 

[Telp]

Hi,
I have a shared HP F2230 all-in-one attached to my mac running leopard 10.5.5. I have been printing regular MS Word black and white documents fine from my other Windoze vista / 7 Beta computers. Tried to print a colored photo but the colors are inaccurate and all the blacks turn into purple! This happens regardless of the application in windows (Paint, MS publisher, and even printer test page!) I tried to print the same photo in the mac and had no problem. I attached a photo of the print out from my windows 7 beta machine.
Tried to reinstall drivers, restart printer, restart mac, but it didn't work. Any ideas?

Thanks for your help.

Ok, so unfortunatly I can't help you out with your problem, and i actually have a similar problem...kinda. But! I just wanted to share that I think it looks really interesting with the purple, and I kind of like it...

 

[surflordca]

Hi,
I have a shared HP F2230 all-in-one attached to my mac running leopard 10.5.5. I have been printing regular MS Word black and white documents fine from my other Windoze vista / 7 Beta computers. Tried to print a colored photo but the colors are inaccurate and all the blacks turn into purple! This happens regardless of the application in windows (Paint, MS publisher, and even printer test page!) I tried to print the same photo in the mac and had no problem. I attached a photo of the print out from my windows 7 beta machine.
Tried to reinstall drivers, restart printer, restart mac, but it didn't work. Any ideas?

Thanks for your help.

Not sure if this is helpful as you said it works on the Mac but I had a problem like yours and I was low on one of the inks.

 

[nokarakeeb]

Not sure if this is helpful as you said it works on the Mac but I had a problem like yours and I was low on one of the inks.

Yeah that's what I thought at the beginning as well, but it prints perfectly well on the mac. I will try to unplug the printer and install it on the windoze machine. I will keep you updated.

Thanks for the feedback

 

[nokarakeeb]

tested the printer on windows machine. Works perfectly and prints accurate colors. I still cannot figure out why windows sends this purple haze to the mac. Hmm.

 

[Objectivist-C]

Do you have the latest printer drivers (from the manufacturer's website) installed? It could also be some kind of colour profile issue, but that's not a subject I'm fluent in.

 

[nokarakeeb]

Yes, I have tried this with both the drivers from the CD that came with the printer, and also with the drivers from HP website. What do you mean color profile issue?