Tinted Glasses

I'm spending quite a bit of time these days printing photos. I must say, I am once again becoming attuned to the nuances of color. This evening, as I was printing a "B" sized photo of Marsha and Ben, I could not get rid of an all-encompassing tint of magenta that pushed everything out of whack. It came out of nowhere. No matter what, everything looked wrong -- yellow stripes went green, pimples became major skin defects. I tried everything -- shifting between profiles, re-calibrating the monitor and printer -- but nothing would make it better. Than I had a bright idea: change the cartridge. Sure enough, with the next print, everything returned to normal. Perhaps this is a lesson for life: when you've got a problem that won't go away after you've tried all the things you're supposed to do, try the most basic and drastic thing you can. It doesn't need to be so complicated. It's as simple as changing glasses, or, in this case, cartridges.