Does Your Printer Print Faded and Dull Pictures But Has No Problem With Documents? Here's How to Fix It.

We're going to address an interesting issue: Your printer will print faded pictures. If you search the internet, many suggestions such as clean your printhead prepared or used a new cartridge. It has nothing to do with your printhead and nothing to do with your ink. Of course, your first reaction is, "Maybe I refilled my cartridge with an inferior ink." That's not the case. Let me show you what you did.

Okay, this is a more complicated problem. Start it. You'll find a picture you want to print. You right-click and go to print. In this case, we will do the prime paper and standard quality. All the colors have faded and are pale compared to what's on the right that we would have wanted. Our first reaction will be like, "Okay, let's try to print this in a better mode." We do glossy paper, and we're going to select the highest quality. Then we'll go to print again. When we're printing it in the highest setting, the picture looks slightly better but is still unsatisfactory.

By this time, most users will conclude that there is something wrong with the ink cartridge or printhead. However, if we look at the picture, the picture is very clear. Just the color is off and pale. Therefore the printhead is not clogged. There's no problem with ink cartridges either. How can we print a picture as clear as this one? We soon find out that if we print the Word document, all the text and the graphics are sharp, and all the colors are vivid. Let's try to insert this picture into a Word document. We open the Word document and find this picture to insert.

You'll find this picture is printed with the correct colors. The problem is how we print this picture. If we right-click and print an image, we usually print with a default Windows picture viewer, which is known to have some printers. Therefore if we use a different program, say Microsoft Word, Photoshop, or other photo software, print this picture, It'll be printed correctly. For example, here's Photoshop, and at this Photoshop, you can select different settings, and if we put it other from this one, it'll print correctly. If you do not have commercial photo editing software, such as Photoshop, you can use a built-in Microsoft Paint free and install it on every PC by default.

You can click Start and type in the word paint. I will show you next how to use a pen as paint and-- there it is. Then you can open it and print it. If you want us to paint because you will lack borderless picture printing, most printers come with photo software that can be downloaded from the manufacturer's support website. For example, Cannon has Image Garden, and Epson has its own thing. You can go to their website and download their software and use that software to print your pictures. This problem only affects images, and it does not involve documents because documents are printed without their software.