Printing issue - purple lines appearing on prints

Hey there,

So, I’ve run into this annoying little hiccup whenever I try to print photos—text prints just fine, but photos? Always the same headache.
It started happening pretty recently.
I'm running an HP ENVY Photo Series
And I’m being careful here—everything is genuine, official ink and all that jazz.
The weird thing is, it doesn't matter what I'm using to send the job to the printer; whether I’m using the manufacturer's own software, jumping into Microsoft apps, or just hitting print from macOS... it happens everywhere.
Doesn't matter if it’s a color shot or a black-and-white one either.

Here’s the deal: once the print job is basically done, that very last strip—maybe about a quarter inch or so along the whole length—it takes on this weird purple tint.

Is the print head shot, or is it something else entirely? It’s specifically happening at the very end of the cycle, like the final pass.

The printer isn't even that old—only been around a few months. I’ve gone through about 6x70ml of ink, and most of my tanks are sitting somewhere between 60% and 90% empty.

I use this thing strictly for photo work, specifically printing on high-end, professional-grade photo paper.

Roger Clark4 said:Hey,

So, whenever I try to print photos—text is fine—I run into this same annoying issue.
It started happening recently.
The printer is a Canon Pixma
Everything inside is genuine... ink and all.
The problem pops up regardless of whether I'm using the manufacturer's software, Adobe apps, or just a standard Windows print job. It happens everywhere.
Doesn't matter if it's color or B&W.

Once the print finishes, that last strip—maybe about 4-5mm wide across the whole page—gets this weird purple tint.

Is the print head shot or something else? Because it only happens at the very end of the job... like, on the final pass.

The printer is pretty new, only a few months old. I filled it with 6x70ml of ink, and I've used up about 60-90% of each color.

It's used exclusively for printing photos on high-end professional photo paper.

Run a nozzle check.

If that looks fine and you still see the tint, then the electronics are probably fried.

But first, try plugging it into a different computer running a different OS. I once had an Epson do something similar where it would print an A4 image up to 180mm and then just aggressively crop the rest.