Thanks for the reply. I do use HP60 ink everytime. I use to use off brand a long time ago, but I too had those problems back in the day. I think mine is in the settings for borderless photo

I don't know if this has anything to do with your problem. But I have the same problem you discribed (rubbing ink off from glossy picture). When I use the original ink, I don't have a problem with the ink rubbing off, but soon as I use a different ink, it doesn't matter if I refill it or replace it with a different brand, the ink is rubbing off.

Well like I've looked at that basic options. And when I print the boreless, and the ones with borders. Everything on the surface matches up, but I'm going to dig deeper today and see if I can set it up different. There's got to be a way. I'm happy with how the ones with borders look like, but when there's a problem like this it drives me nuts till I figure it out.

It sounds like you need to adjust the settings on your printer. There are options for quality in addition to borders. I use an HP C4250 with the heaviest Premium glossy paper on the 'best' setting for all options and have never had a problem with smearing or ink coming off.

Well please let me know what you find out! I'd be interested to know what HP has to say about it ^^

I'm going to fool around with my printer this weekend and see if I can see if the settings are different or what causes. I got an email into HP asking them.

Well that's interesting, thanks for sharing! I wonder why there's such a big difference between borderless and bordered...it seems to me like borderless would work fine AND take longer to print. I'm definitely gonna keep this in mind next time I send out!

Welllllllllllllllllllllllllll yesterday I got back 3 replies. Two signed and one RTS. I opened them up and all 3 were messed up with the ink coming off. So I just laid out a couple of my 4x6's that are perfect, that will not smear, and the ones that have. Then I noticed that the ones that don't smear have borders. So I went to my printer and printed off the 2 different styles I do.

One is a 4x6 w/ borders fit into page, the other is 4x6 borderless fit into page. And guess what? When I do borderless it takes the picture like 10 seconds to print, when i do it WITH borders it took it 30 seconds atleast to print. So both print and I let them dry for 3 hours. Then I pick both up and I put my finger on the one that is borderless and the ink comes right off, put my hand on the one with borders, that too much longer to print and it wont come off for nothing.

So I guess when it's set to do borderless, faster so it doesn't stick to my gloss paper at all.

So happy to have figued this out, and it looks like my requests for OC and Pushing Daisies will look like crap if I get them back , but all my others are safe which was the majority of them.

You're welcome! I wish someone had told me back when I started collecting =P I hope the less-glossy pages work out for you! I love shiny stuff, but not if it's going to smudge my prized autographs, ya know?

Thank you for your comment. I had been thinking about going to a less gloss. It wasn't for that reason, but that is another good reason to switch. I've noticed that the gloss isn't really even that good with the high gloss, and I got a pack of 4x6 that were semi and they seemed to look cleaner.

Once again thanks for taking the time and replying