Canon ix 6550 Printer woes

Looks like my printer has had enough regarding printing Mono images, I'm getting a horrible magenta to bluish cast in the "blacks" ie grey clouds to dark shadows etc. I'm looking for suggestions for a replacement for my Canon ix 6550 at a reasonale price so any input will be appreciated. Also recomendations for sending prints off for printing would be helpful and looking at the price of "top of the range" printers may be a cheaper option. I should add i'm still getting satisfactory "Colour" prints from the ix6550. Thanks

I had the same problem with my canon, (apparently a common problem wiith canon printers) eventually it started happening with colour prints...got sick of wasting paper and ink and ditched the printer and started using a commercial printer.....much happier now

Thanks for the timely warning. Does anyone know of issues with the Canon Professional range of photo printers (apart from the huge size)? Shame Ricoh don't do photo printers, seems a lost opportunity.

a few people i know use Pro-Am for their prints, prices seem reasonable and some even win competitions with them. may go down that route myself as my old Epson R1800 has had it mainly through lack of use.

Thanks for the feedback. I think I will give ProAm a try although the postage does seem a little high.

I run an iX6550, and this has not happened to me yet.
An earlier Canon i560 (A4, and only 4 inks) started to develop a faint green cast down one side), and was replaced with the big one.
I had to go through the "re-alignment" process fairly regularly on the i560 at the end.
However, I only use the Canon for colour (and don't do much since health curtailed my activity) and do the bulk of my day-to-day printing on a Brother mono laser printer.

Geoff

I had a Samsung laser printer which was great for letters and the like but not so good for graphics. Unfortunately it was taken to the local recycling depot as the toner was going to be quite a few £'s more than the printer. To me that seemed crazy. I could buy a printer with enough toner for about 1500 pages, quite a lot for an odd letter now and again

I got so sick of my last printer i threw it in the river. I hav'nt had a bit of bother from it since.

Me too. I am about to ditch an old Brother HL-1030 that worked well until I bought a new computer - this old printer only has a parallel input, which modern computers don't seem to have. I am still using its successor, a Brother HL-1430 which I bought cheap as an ex-demo model some years ago. The toner packs last for ages and are not too dear online. I last bought one from Hornsea Inkjets (sic!) in East Yorkshire, for just under fifteen quid.

Martin (stingy old git)

What I'm looking for is a printer which is good for printing mono photos, they all seem to get reasonable reviews for colour photos. I have done ok with the canon ix6550, was 2nd overall (mono) last year and 1st overall (mono) the season before. Of course I could send them off for printing but postage seems quite severe.