Photo prints come out with a greenish cast

I'm using an HP5850 printer which had excellent photo printing under XP.
After I switched to Vista, my photo prints are coming out with a strong
greenish cast.

The HP printer driver comes pre-installed with Vista, and is the 5650
version (the same printer minus wireless).

I've tried disabling the color matching and color profiles for the OS, the
display, and the printer. I've tried various combinations of color profiles
to no avail.

The default color profile is the sRGB for the printer, which should be
reasonable.

Curiously, printing upon normal paper comes out with the right colors. It
appears to be only when I choose 4x6 photo printing, or perhaps photo paper
that causes the problem.

Any suggestions for why my photo printing would be bad?

Perhaps your color settings are such that color compensation is applied
twice, or incorrectly.
Most of the consumer printers are sRGB by default.
Unless you have the means to generate color correction files for your
individual printer, the driver color compensation settings are generally
left at the default settings.


"Bo3b Johnsn" <Bo3b > wrote in message
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> I'm using an HP5850 printer which had excellent photo printing under XP.
> After I switched to Vista, my photo prints are coming out with a strong
> greenish cast.
>
> The HP printer driver comes pre-installed with Vista, and is the 5650
> version (the same printer minus wireless).
>
> I've tried disabling the color matching and color profiles for the OS, the
> display, and the printer. I've tried various combinations of color
profiles
> to no avail.
>
> The default color profile is the sRGB for the printer, which should be
> reasonable.
>
> Curiously, printing upon normal paper comes out with the right colors. It
> appears to be only when I choose 4x6 photo printing, or perhaps photo
paper
> that causes the problem.
>
> Any suggestions for why my photo printing would be bad?
>