Canon S300 problems

C

Calypte

I've owned this Canon S300 printer since 2002, and I've never succeeded in
getting decent photo prints out of it. The printer has been sitting unused
for several years, since the text quality is far inferior to my old HP
LaserJet 4L, and the Canon goes through ink cartridges very quickly.

I've decided to try to give the Canon one more whirl on photos, driving it
from my laptop under Win XP. I bought new ink cartridges and some 4x6
official Canon photo paper.

(1) My prints are mostly yellow. How do I get all colors to print?

(2) Despite my specifying 4x6 photo paper in "properties," the printer
thinks it's printing on 8x11 paper, and the thrillingly yellow photo is
mostly cut off.

Has anyone ever successfully printed photos with the Canon S300? If so,
what was your secret?
 
M

Michael Grey

Use Canons EZ Photo print software.
Newer versions on Canons website under drivers for you printer.
 
P

Paul Heslop

Calypte said:
I've owned this Canon S300 printer since 2002, and I've never succeeded in
getting decent photo prints out of it. The printer has been sitting unused
for several years, since the text quality is far inferior to my old HP
LaserJet 4L, and the Canon goes through ink cartridges very quickly.

I've decided to try to give the Canon one more whirl on photos, driving it
from my laptop under Win XP. I bought new ink cartridges and some 4x6
official Canon photo paper.

(1) My prints are mostly yellow. How do I get all colors to print?

(2) Despite my specifying 4x6 photo paper in "properties," the printer
thinks it's printing on 8x11 paper, and the thrillingly yellow photo is
mostly cut off.

Has anyone ever successfully printed photos with the Canon S300? If so,
what was your secret?

the program you are printing from will not be to its liking, but as
for printing mainly yellow you need to do a lot of deep cleaning, and
I mean a lot. If you have left it standing doing nothing even more so.

A true printing program, like print house, helps to ensure it fits
everything to your paper IF you get all the colours running
 
C

Calypte

I did do several repeated head cleanings, and they solved the all-yellow
problem. My last "successful" print now is full of little lines. I tried
to do a head alignment, but now the printer simply doesn't respond. This is
the sort of thing I've had to deal with from the beginning when I bought
the printer. I gave up trying to use the printer with my desktop computer,
because no amount of uninstall-reinstall, unplug-replug could get it to work
again. Now it appears it's doing the same thing with my laptop. Funny
thing, at work today I plugged this same laptop into an HP 845c, and I was
able to get a perfect print the first time.
 
P

Paul Heslop

Calypte said:
I did do several repeated head cleanings, and they solved the all-yellow
problem. My last "successful" print now is full of little lines. I tried
to do a head alignment, but now the printer simply doesn't respond. This is
the sort of thing I've had to deal with from the beginning when I bought
the printer. I gave up trying to use the printer with my desktop computer,
because no amount of uninstall-reinstall, unplug-replug could get it to work
again. Now it appears it's doing the same thing with my laptop. Funny
thing, at work today I plugged this same laptop into an HP 845c, and I was
able to get a perfect print the first time.

I did own either that model or an s330... my memory is bad. basically
to ensure no banding and etc everything had to be set to best. When it
was good it was great but when it was bad it was damned awful.
Streaking, lines, colour loss, noise, paper trapping, etc etc etc were
endured for a couple of years as it was still better than the machine
it replaced. It then just stopped doing anything.
 
C

Calypte

Somehow I got it working again. The other issues being occasionally
resolvable, my remaining unsolved problem is to get the photo print centered
on the 4x6 photo card paper. It's not like the printer is set up for letter
paper (I've been through that), but the photo is off-center and cropped a
bit on two edges. The user manual for the S300 provides specifications for
the print area, but I see no way to actually fine-tune where the picture
goes on the page.
 
P

Paul Heslop

Calypte said:
Somehow I got it working again. The other issues being occasionally
resolvable, my remaining unsolved problem is to get the photo print centered
on the 4x6 photo card paper. It's not like the printer is set up for letter
paper (I've been through that), but the photo is off-center and cropped a
bit on two edges. The user manual for the S300 provides specifications for
the print area, but I see no way to actually fine-tune where the picture
goes on the page.

No, I don't recall that problem but I only printed to A4, splitting
one sheet into four images, which was where the dedicated printer
program came in handy. Sometimes when using, say, paint shop to print
the print would come out all wrong. I think in those circumstances you
have to make sure that both the printer and the program itself are set
properly, that the information doesn't conflict, and I don't know why
that is but I have noticed it occasionally.
 

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