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    S900 prints have color cast

    Grandad, Thanks for the suggestion. I don't have a complete set of new cartridges (two of them are recently replaced), so I'll need to order a couple. It will take a week or so to get them delivered, so I'll be quiet for a while! By the way, both pictures were scanned at the same time on the...
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    S900 prints have color cast

    Hi, The bands are not visible to the naked eye - the images I have posted are cropped from scans of 6X4 prints. At 600dpi they would be much too big to store in the image area for this forum. Even under a magnifying glass there is no sign of banding on the original photograph. The picture...
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    S900 prints have color cast

    Hi, I've re-scanned both photographs at 600dpi (see below). The scanner is not totally color accurate, but hopefully having a correct version and a faulty version should eliminate this factor. Certainly, there is no banding in the 'correct' picture and it is quite noticeable in the faulty...
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    S900 prints have color cast

    The vertical bars are likely be an artefact of the scanner - I don't have a scanner myself, so I used one in work that isn't really photo quality. All I was trying to capture with the scanner was the color difference, so I didn't scan on maximum resolution, just 400 dpi. The scanner only goes...
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    S900 prints have color cast

    Hi, The pictures are now at (and see above!): I am using third party cartidges and have been since the cartridges that came with the printer ran out. The first replacement cartridge was the same make as the empty one it replaced (i.e., 7dayshop.com). The second attempt was from...
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    S900 prints have color cast

    Hi, My S900 has suddenly started producing prints with a distinct color cast. This happened when I changed the Cyan cartridge. I have tried a new cyan cartridge, running the clean and deep clean maintenance operations and have soaked the print head in first in hot soapy water then in alcohol...
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