Print oddity... anyone ever seen this before?

Dear Doug,
You may have missed the message that mentions that another car in the same photo has some similar anomaly (the neighbor's car in the driveway), but it's very difficult to see in that photo.

Misstyped and left out the "s" on car"s".

This is why I think it is a channel-rooted issue.
Or as Ken mentioned it could be a conversion issue.
Or somewhere inbetween.
From the red cast you would think cyan was blown.
But there is cyan on the car in the "glare zone".
Kind of looks like the blue channel got lost in translation.

Another angle.

Did you send the image as a 16 bit file?
This will cause some interesting print results....

I haven't done any more playing with that particular image, since I'm still turning out print after print with no problems. I was more or less leaning to the corruption that Doug mentioned, since I've not seen this elsewhere.

Yes, I do take all my raw files from CS2 ACW into PS as 16 bit, and print them that way as well. I've never experienced problems doing this so far though, so I hope that's not got anything to do with it. I'm going to try a friends printer (Canon ip8500) soon to see if this happens again. If so, then we will know its the file.

Thanks again for the excellent feedback.

William

Have you try taking another picture of the same car and try printing it to see if it is just that one file that has the anomaly???

Yes, as stated in the original post, other prints of the blue car turned out fine. That's why I feel like there is something quirky about the file itself...

no worries though, more prints done last night (not of cars though) and still no more problems.

Thanks
William