hplip printing issue with printing photos only.

[Zore The Bore]

Running hplip 3.10.5, Device Manager 15.0 (Qt4) on PCLOS2010 KDE4
Printer is an HP All-In-One Deskjet F4440.

Printer works fine in PCLOS with all functions (scanner/copier and printing)

However, when I try to setup the printer to print photos, the HP4440 prints photos with a hue tint towards green across the entire photo (printed at least five different images from two different digital cameras including untouched out of the camera images and reworked stuff in GIMP.

Doesn't matter if I print out of Gwenview, Kuickshow, Gimp, it has a slight hue shift towards green. When I set the printer to print an image as an image, then the color balance is perfect to the screen, but obviously it doesn't look like a photo.

I went into HPLIP and found a setting to adjust the hue for photos for the printer (HP F4440 and using the hp 4400 series driver). I've tried values of 1,2,10,25 to the hue adjustment and no change in photos.

I even rebooted after making the hue adjustment changes in HPLIP and the hue adjustment is still correct for what I set it at, but there is no change in the green hue tint.

Also I've installed a new cartridge as well. Same issue.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[Ramchu]

Have you looked into the image printing settings in the HP Device Manager
PC>More Applications>Printing>Hp Device Manager -- Print settings tab>Image printing

[Zore The Bore]

Yes, that is where the hue adjustment is, as well as saturation and other adjustments. For some reason, the F4440 is not creating a true 'black' with the color cartridge. Apparently, when you print photos, the color printers do not use the black ink cartridge to adjust tonal range. They create black only with the cyan, yellow, magenta cartridge.

Hmm. Just burnt through an entire color cartridge with no luck... Whatever the case, it looks like the hue adjustment doesn't work.