Help! Color only prints yellow and black!

you may gotten a bad color cartridge, it happens.

Worn print head. And for what they charge for a stinking print head you can get a new printer for less with a warranty to boot!

try printing the nozzle check page.. you will be able to see which color that is missing... it should have Yellow , Megenta, Cyan and Black... if any one of the color is missing.. try performing head cleaning and after twice cleaning and still no improvement, very high possibility your print head is clogged..

Did you run a test print? And then check and clean the print nozzles:
Make sure there is paper.
Press the "Maintenance" button once to display an A.
Press Black or Color
Let it run its cycles.

If there is still no print:
Press "Maintenance" button twice to display an H
Press Black or Color
Print "nozzle check"
Let it run it's cycles.

Still nothing:
Press "Maintenance" button until an M
Press Black or Color
Print "nozzle check"
Let it run its cycles.

Still nothing:
Replace BOTH cartridges and repeat the first nozzle check.
If this doesn't work, contact Canon

Did you try the printer cleaning on the computer
yo my have to run it a couple of times

try to put your cartridges with warm water

Was gone for the weekend.

Yes, the grayscale option gives you black and white or black tank printing only.

If you go to start menu, control panel, printers, right click your printer there is the option to print test page. In the upper left should be the windows logo in color. If you don't have that and you know you've removed the protective tape for the bottom of the color cartridges and when doing the nozzle checks "you have color?", then you probably need to reinstall your printer driver.

Is your printer connected via a USB cable, a thin cable with a flat connector at the PC and a square connector at the printer. Then, let me know. Send me your printer model from the back of the printer model sticker and I'll send you the instructions and a link to the current driver as well as a program link to download a system registry clean up utility that's free to use and can clean up from an uninstall of your printer.

Regards,
Worldvet

Found the answer. For some reason, my computer accepted a Mac driver. It called the printer Epson Stylus COLOR 880 (M). I went back to the original installation disk; thereafter, I had two printers, one without M, one with M, and deleted the M printer. All is working fine now.

Hi, I have question?
The ink that yuo are change are original epson cartidge ink?If yes , try to head cleaning twice and then nozzle check ,then the result of test print are soild in color are good , the unclean head having plenty spaces within the color in test print.

printer need head cleaning , after cleaning check nozzle , if solid color appear w/out space on black color it means good and clean nozzle.