light green is shown blue

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Hello,

We have Canon ir c3200 multifunctional machine as network printer.

When printing from some of our machines light color is clearly blue
for some reason - some show it as it should be. Printing is done from
win xp machines with PCL5c driver. CNC510B is default color profile
which is used by all workstations.

This seems be machine focused problem since changing user (we using
roaming profiles) dont change a thing and all workstations use default
settings for color printing. I have tried all I could to find out what
causing this, reinstalled printer on workstation etc...

Material going to customers are being printed with this and causes
problems to our designers.

If someone faced same problem or have clue what might cause problem, I
would be more than happy to hear advices.

Thanks in advance,
Mikko Kiviranta

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> Hello,
> seems your printer ran out of yellow ink, since printing green needs both blue and
> yellow ink.
> Herb

Tnx for answer.

Hmmm, weird since prints color ok from some computers and then some
dont on same printer. Checked how ever yellow ink amount and its shown
1-25%.

I try find replacement for that and see if stuff works after it.

Mikko

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"H.Henkler" wrote:
>
> Kiwis schrieb:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > We have Canon ir c3200 multifunctional machine as network printer.
> >
> > When printing from some of our machines light color is clearly blue
> > for some reason - some show it as it should be. Printing is done from
> > win xp machines with PCL5c driver. CNC510B is default color profile
> > which is used by all workstations.
> >
> > This seems be machine focused problem since changing user (we using
> > roaming profiles) dont change a thing and all workstations use default
> > settings for color printing. I have tried all I could to find out what
> > causing this, reinstalled printer on workstation etc...
> >
> > Material going to customers are being printed with this and causes
> > problems to our designers.
> >
> > If someone faced same problem or have clue what might cause problem, I
> > would be more than happy to hear advices.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Mikko Kiviranta
>
> Hello,
> seems your printer ran out of yellow ink, since printing green needs both blue and
> yellow ink.
> Herb


Aahhh, not so. Printers use subtractive colors, i.e. magenta, cyan, and
yellow. Green is a combination of cyan and yellow. Blue is a
combination of cyan and magenta, and red is magenta and yellow.

A printer printing blue instead of green could be missing yellow, if a
light cyan is taken for blue; if it is a true blue, then the printer is
printing cyan and magenta. More likely it is light cyan, I should
think.

Colin