wrong coulour when printing when i use red it comes out yellow?

Question

hi i have been useing refill ink for my hp printer but now all the red writing come out yellow i have put right colour inks in right holes

Answer 1

Go into a word processing program like WordPad then type a test message then highlight all those words then make them BOLD red or green or blue then have them print out if you get something other then red green blue go into your printer driver and make sure the proper color scheme is selected if all thats right something with your printer is wrong or you got some silly virus on your machine I never heard of before playing tricks with you. Print a test page from your Printer Driver. Some printers have a maintenance mode you can start by pressing buttons in silly ways. You need to talk with your manufacturer to learn the special maintenance codes of printers that will test themselves. I have found that HP is improving the latest printer I have is 2575 All In One and with WINxp it is the first one ever worked right for me.

Answer 2

Simple you are out of magenta ink, or the print head has dried up.

Try a number of print head or nozzle cleanings to see if that frees it up first.

If you have no improvement on quality you may want to replace the cartridge. There are only a finite number of times you can actually refill. On the newer models of HP you will be luck to get 1 or 2 refills and still maintain a level of quality.

Answer 3

using refill kits are fine but since the sponge inside has some sort of exposure to the air the sponge within begins to dry up causing clogs, so the red ink may not be coming out due to a clog, best you can do is try cleaning the printers contacts or the cartriage head (the kit usually comes with a cleaning liquid), if not then your red sponge is clogged and will need a new one

Answer 4

Many things can be happening, hpefully no more tha one...

Calibrate your Printer first...
Check that the picture you are trying to print can be saved as
CMYK colours this is the best for printing.
Change the software you are printing in case it has for some reason some comfict... use photoshop as best.
If still you have a problem then the most probably this is a defective cartridge.

Hope to had helped you.

Answer 5

run the printer head cleaning programme TWICE one after the other then make a yellow square and a red square print it two or three tines , this should clear any blocked nozzles ...if this fails retry still no result ..change the colour cartridge

Answer 6

Look at your printer settings and make a test page... if that doesnt work then go on the HP.com site and look for support

Answer 7

You have a defective printer cartridge.

Dont refill yourself, get a remanufactured cartridge.

buy at www.voltexx.com

Answer 8

You don't have enough ink left to make that colour

Answer 9

try changing your cartridge for a new one, this sounds like the red ahs run out, as a previous user has said try a test page

Answer 10

google it.