Solved: Printer prints faint, faded and dull pictures but no problem with documents
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Hey there, printer enthusiasts! Welcome back to our channel. We're diving into an issue that's been leaving many of you scratching your heads: faded pictures from your printer. You know, those prints that just don't have that vibrant, eye-catching quality you were expecting. Well, get ready to discover the real cause behind this puzzling problem because, believe it or not, it's not your printer's fault at all! I'm here to show you why.
Did I get a cataract or is the printhead clogged? Neither. It's the way you are printing. We investigate a strange problem where the printer will print documents without a problem but can't print good quality pictures to save its robotic life.
00:01 - 00:04: Introduction to BCH Technologies.
00:04 - 00:09: Discussing the issue of faded pictures when printing.
00:09 - 00:13: The problem of faded prints with printers.
00:13 - 00:17: Various suggestions found online, such as cleaning printheads or using new cartridges.
5 years later and this video has not aged! You saved me from buying a new printer. Thank you!
You Sir deserve a standing ovation! After a full team of faulty prints, endless print head alignments and cartridge refills you have solved my problem in just minutes!😮
this is brilliant. I just bought a brand new tank printer and loved it EXCEPT the colors weren't dark enough. Printing out of word gave me a nice dark, crisp color. TY SO MUCH!
Thank you!! I finally was an adult and bought a decent printer only to be dismayed at the terrible faded pictures, this fixed it!
Thank you soooo much this saved me a lot of money. I was going to replace my printer until I ran across your video. Much success to you🙂
You saved my life. I just bought a $250 canon printer and i was having this faded printing issue. I thought to return my printer but luckily i came across this video and now my problem is solved. Thanks a ton!
Mine isnt, how come its not working
@Latasha Butler that's strange. It worked for me right away. If your printer is a new one, then contact the support team and tell them your issue. They will fix it in no time. 👍🏻
In Photoshop to get the best results you should do this.
Once you import an image that you want to print in Photoshop:
First, click the image tab-> Mode-> CMYK color.
Then file->print, and in pop-up screen select "Photoshop manages colors" and select the printer profile dropdown menu to be "Cannon IJ color printer profile 2015".
Start the print.
Magic.
Thank you so much. I almost thought my printer was malfunctioning 😢, and since its new it felt terrible. Thanks a lot 😊
Thank you so much your suggestion worked PERFECTLY! I was feeling a bit disheartened about my print outs at first because they are for art prints but my final print is just what I needed. Thanks again! Very easy to understand :)
For others- I used Photoshop on my Mac with a Canon Ts5350 printer. When I used Preview beforehand, my prints were dull. When I used all the same settings, just on Photoshop, it was perfect!
What do you mean when you say "When I used all the same settings, just on photoshop"? All what same settings?
@@ElDiabloDMS I mean I didn’t change any of the settings at all! The only thing I did differently was print on photoshop instead of preview!
Wow! Never had a problem until I got an Epson. I have lost track of how many videos of experts I have watched. The printing was still bad. This saved the day.
Funny, i bought a wf-7710 about 4 months ago and returned it to Staples because printer did this, unlike my hp envy. I have a mac and wonder if Preview was the problem...
You are my hero, I’ve been trying to help my boss fix this printer he’s got and couldn’t find a solution until your video. Thaaaaank you so much!
Thanks for the tip! Wrote customer service and not even they could help. You just saved my printers life :D
Oh man, thank you so much! I thought I had tried everything to improve my image quality for printing art stickers but nothing worked. Definately was feeling a lot of despair. This made a huge difference and now my art stickers don't look faded anymore and might actually be good enough quality to sell as intended when I bought the printer. You're my printer hero!
Glad I could help!
I had the exact opposite problem - documents were printing with everything way faded in MS Word. I found this video and changed my print preferences from Standard to Photo Printing, and the print quality from Standard to High. Make sure the paper size is correct, and ignore any notice it gives you about paper type. HUGE difference! Takes longer to print but the color being vibrant is well worth it.
This is using a Canon TR4500 with refilled ink from this same channel/store. Thank you *again* for the help Kevin!
So you went from faded documents to vibrant masterpieces? Sounds like your printer is now living its best life! Who knew it could go from drab to fab with just a few clicks?
You have the best printer help! Even old videos like this saved me from trying to mess with my printer drivers
You are welcome!
I've already applied your tutorial when I first use my new printer..but years go by. I forgot about that .. thankfully..I saw this post of you..again.. thank you so much..
You're very welcome!
Just want to say thank you so much! I also have a canon pixma mp 250 that has always worked but hardly used. Thanks to you was able to revive my 10 year old cartridges and refill them and save money! When I started printing photos also faded but quality improved with paint as stated. Many thanks for all your videos and I really do appreciate it.
You are a lifesaver. Happened to me. I had no other Image softwares, so I "reset" Microsoft Photos app from Control Panel and its all good now.
Your a genius! I have been trying to figure this out forever...
god I WISH I knew this sooner... so many ink wasted :,(
Dear Kevin!!! Thank you sooooo much! I could not find the answer for the problem anywhere, and from photoshop it works perfectly.
THANK YOU. I only bought my printer yesterday and the photos were faded..I was devistaded until i came across this.
Worked with canon ts5300 series. I was using the canon photo app to print directly from phone and the colors were horrible. I then tried printing the photos from pages on Mac and they printed beautifully.
You fixed it! I flushed and flushed the print heads to no avail. Thank you so much, I went through many youtube videos before I found this one. again thank you so much.
Holy moly, brilliant! I remember your voice from another video I watched and learned from you, now this is the second time. New subscriber here, thank you!!
Printed in Photoshop, Word, Paint and also directly from my phone. All came out exactly the same. Also changed to Higher Quality. All prints look faded. Cannot be clogged printer head as there are no visible lines or missing details on print. Don't know what else to try.
Same here.
Finally i solve my many year printing colour problem from computer to printing...try many way from UA-cam and you the only one with the solution...thanks due....
I can't believe this actually worked. Thank you
Glad it helped
Thank you so much! I was printing from Preview instead of Photos on my iMac and your advice solved my problem.
Thanks for solving it. This was the same problem in my printer
Thank you very much for this. I will try this one later. I'll try the paint one. I have been struggling to print photos few days ago. I start a small business here in our small barangay, but I wonder why I don't get to print clear and high quality pics. Hope this time I could get the result I want!
Nice video. How do you fix canon mg2540s printer printing broken lines and crooked lines?
Do some unclogging and it should fix it.
Hey man in the advanced settings change the colour profile to a different one. It worked for me.
OOOOOOOH MYYYYYYY GODDDDDDD - Years I've been swearing at my printer and trying different paper - different ink - even different printers FFS - Windows! Thank you my friend, just tried it and yes you are 100% correct!!!!!!
I have a similar problem with my Canon G3000. Changing software may work, but Wi-Fi printing (from Android with Canon software) cannot be saved, so it's a major productivity problem.
It's definitely firmware issues, and shocked to hear that it happens for other models too. No more Canon printers for me again.
to who are wondering if this works............absolutely this is working so well i wish i searched for this a bit sooner before wasting my time also money to print a bad quality paper im so glad i watched this thanks a lot ;)
edit: hope i am not late to post this comment
What a very concise description on correcting this problem. Thank you so much.
Great tip. My pictures were so dull printing from photos. Partly the problem imo is we are viewing backlit screen and this isn’t a true image of our photographs.
Thanks I searched for the solution long term
It totally worked for me!!!! Thank you so much.
Question: Do you know how to shrink a photo but keep it clear and not pixelated? I want to print 1 inch photo circles for necklaces.
Nattums Mcgee when you shrink a photo, it’s trying to cram all the pixels from the original size into a smaller one, and it has to decide which pixels to discard. When importing into photoshop- you wanna make sure your image is a vector, rather than a raster. This vid explains it better than I’m doing rn 😂 ua-cam.com/video/5PCWKuJEz-g/v-deo.html
I swear, you saved me lol. Got my first ever printer and was very dissapointed about how my photos looked like when printed. But now its prefect!
When I refill the ink of my Epson printer, i uncounter a problem. The bright Yellow begun a dirty yellowish-it was really werd son i kept cleaning thé nozzle. And in the end all the test print was ok, there weren't any black ligne AT all. And i was wondering if during the refill the Yellow get Stain by the dark ink. And now the Yellowish get lighter day by day 🤞🤞
Printing was to light in color. Open paintshop and it printed just fine. Thank you.
I’ve been having problems with the faded printing it’s just a black-and-white just the barcode to try to ship something through the post office and then I got a new printer and we put new ink in that and we put new firmware in and we still can’t get it to print for like a year I was just printing a blank page now it’s printing, black and white but it’s still really faded and the post office will not take the package with the barcode that faded light looking.
THIS IS EXTREMELY HELPFUL!!! THANK YOU❤❤❤
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for you
You're so welcome!
Thank you! This helped me a lot with my printer!
Are you using normal a4 paper or proper photo paper
Really good explanation with showing demo,demo is more understanding👍
Very helpful experienced that problem too on my new printer, thank you
Mate i have a question, maybe you can help me, i have a problem as you have so cleverly shown, but my problem starts at the monitor, it scans and it shows me a diluted photo on my screen, it seems my scanner is not functioning correctly, its a week old. any suggestions for me? i think your videos are great, and thanks a million
Hi, can i asked where to click first making the print clearer ♂ d darker in color?
Prints better in photoshop. Good to know. Thanks
What settings for an epson printer? I only have options for plain paper, glossy, and photopaper :(
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Thank you! Worked out beautifully for me! Night and day printings!
I was about to buy another printer. Thank you for this!
Wonderful Thankyou so much for sharing your knowledge ❤
sir, should i use media type plane paper or photo paper for printing passport size photos..?
You are a godsend. Thank you
Massive help! Made this new printer purchase worth it!
Thanks!
I don't have Word or Photoshop. How do I get my (black) print to look normal again? Colors seem to be okay, just black looks gray.
Very important information 🙏
omg Thank you so much ! why is something so simple and stupid like this still exist, like seriously all this technology and I still can't have a decent printer. This is exactly why I'm currently studying computer engineering, to fix this nonsense.
Thank you. I will try it later. I have HP smart tank 515. I just bought it a week ago. I am struggling for Printing picture because the print is not the same in the monitor. Do you think your tutorial will help my problem? I used Adobe photoshop and i already enhance the photos
And i choose normal printing. So i found out that you choose hard proofing..
Hope you can help me.
Thank you! You helped me figure out my problem
I didn't hear what you said to use if I don't have Photoshop ..could you please write it for me..thank you!
I had to rewind a few times to hear it..did you say Microsoft Paint?
Sadly this didn't work for me.. I have no idea what to do :(
So I have this fading issue with my sublimation printer? Especially trying to heat press it the image is faded on the item for obvious reasons... printing cmyk from photoshop so by switching to word doc I should possibly get a better result correct?
I have the same problem with my epson L805 i did this and it still dont work
Awesome! Thank you!!!
Thank you so much! I was starting to lose hope. :)
this was so helpful THANK YOU!!!!
it didnt work for me in word and photoshop, I converted a brand new L15150 printer to sublimation with sublimation hansol inks, I already install the icc profile of the ink and got high quality prints but the print is still dull I badly need help 💔😭
Life saver, thanks for telling!
Thanks you for this video
Hi all my images (or scanned pdf; or colour text) keep getting printed too light. i only install the black cartridge bc it's easier to refill but i forgot completely how i solved this in the past. i tried EVERYTHING already such as deleting the driver and restarting with the printer connected; connecting it later; not restarting; etc. nothing helps
PS: Black digital (not scanned) text prints perfectly however
hi kevin im on mac and i used photoshop and it still didnt work. i see in photoshop you used let printer manage colors and not photoshop manage colors is that right? i dont have microsoft word so i cant use your trick but my photos are still have cataract quality to them
Hopefully someone has this answer but im printing on Sticker paper. When I print it comes out fine, but it fades over time rather than right away. Anyone know why it fades over time? Its not in sunlight either.
Wish it worked for my Epson WF-7520 which I converted to a Dye Sublimation printer. It cleared up just a little bit after trying some of this suggestion but it's still faded enough that I can't sell the images to anyone until I can get the bright clear images that I'm getting on my HP OfficeJet 4652 which is a normal inkjet printer. Anyone has any suggestion?
Are nozzles unclogged? If so, go to extend settings and tune up the ink density. Also, select premium matte in the paper settings.
I have the same problem with the same printer. Just changed the ink over today. Was trying to figure out whether it was the ink, paper, or printer. Still don't know. Can barely hear the guys video. For Microsoft which printing software did he recommend?
AMAZING! Thanks so much.
Thanks. It really helped!
thank you so much! Very informative!! 😊😊🙌
thank you for sharing this arcane knowledge
How does photoshop compare with Preview in in mac?
Mmm makes sense. Whenever i print in windows 8 or 10 I get the colours wrong, but in windows 7 I get them right. I thought it had to do with drivers
VERY helpful!! Thank you so much!!
U made my day .. thanks
My pleasure 😊
Thank you so much!! This is so helpful!
thank you so much sir.. I have wasted my time in clearing the cartridge but actual problem was the stupid canon printer. itself
Thanks, helped a lot🙏🙏👍
Bingo! Many Thanks!
I will try this. Thank you
omg thank you so much!
thank you so much! it worked :DD
Thank you!
Hi. My document won't print. It isn't a picture but a text. When I dried to print PNG files, it prints nicely but the text document prints low-quality black colour. Sometimes, black bold text is not filled with black. I tried printing it in PDF and in Drive. Still the results are the same. My printer is Canon 3010 btw. What should I do about this?
Do a nozzle check. The black cartridge may need to be unclogged.
Thank you
Do you know why would my epson 2720 stop printing from photoshop elements I can print using illustrator but from photoshop is not letting me😭😭 it sends my image to print from my other printer😔
Have you tried to delete the printer and reinstall?
Thank you so much🤠
You’re welcome 😊
I tried the paint method and it still didn't work. My picture still comes out faded and deluted. Somebody help!
This happened to me too. My colours were randomly faded for no reason. I checked the inks, printer jets and everything but it was all fine so what could it have been?! I had a deadline for work that needed my printer to be working and after watching this video, I saw that the quality option in Photo Viewer in your video had "high" in it and mine didn't. It turns out that I had the wrong paper type as the Windows 10 update wiped out my custom settings and took my printing settings with it. 😂
I think Photo Viewer is fine for me, it does the job just fine.
where i cant find can you tell me the time