Help! White Text turns pink on photo paper Prinouts

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Does this happen to you guys? Once printed the white text on my DVD
sleeves gradually turns pink after a week or two around the edges or
completly depending on the darkness of the background. However the
white parts in the various photos seem unaffected. I've tried HP and
lexmark photo paper with similar results. I'm using an HP printer with
vivera inks. Is this a photo paper thing? Is there an alternative to
photo paper to fix this but with quality image reproduction? Howabout
those sprays I see? Thanks for the help.
 
This sounds like the magenta ink might be migrating after it is left to
set. Reverse text (white on dark background) usually is made up of
relatively fine areas of white surrounded by larger proportions of dark
inked areas around it, so it wouldn't take much ink to migrate to make
it change color.

You might wish to bring this to HP's attention, as it seems like a
potential issue with that inkset.

Art
 
Arthur Entlich said:
This sounds like the magenta ink might be migrating after it is left to
set. Reverse text (white on dark background) usually is made up of
relatively fine areas of white surrounded by larger proportions of dark
inked areas around it, so it wouldn't take much ink to migrate to make it
change color.

You might wish to bring this to HP's attention, as it seems like a
potential issue with that inkset.

Art
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Art - I've noticed that in some photos that I've used photoshop to "erase"
everything but the subject, the background might appear white on the screen
but have some very slight coloration when printed. When I've seen this it
has always been very slightly pink. This may be a completely different
situation from the OP's problem.
 
Hi Burt,

What you are reporting is a color management issue... the screen is not
fully representing the result that the printer is rendering.
Unfortunately, these more subtle problems often require calibration
software and hardware to resolve, which can get a bit costly. Also,
depending upon the monitor, and particularly with some low end LCD
monitors, these subtle color issues may not be fully correctable even
with CM software.

I'm not sure if this is what the OP was referring to. I thought he/she
mentioned that the problem with just with reverse type printing, and
that it showed up after a while, in which case, migration of ink could
be more likely.

I just looked back and here is part of the original quote:
Once printed the white text on my DVD
sleeves gradually turns pink after a week or two around the edges or
completly depending on the darkness of the background. However the
white parts in the various photos seem unaffected.
Click to expand...

Art
 
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