Printer failing to print colours properly

Try to run Head Cleaning utility of your printer. This will force your printer to recharge so that it can dispense black ink that you placed recently.

If you are using Windows:

1. Click Start button => Settings => Printers and Faxes
2. Locate your printer icon. Right click on it and click "Printing Preferences".
3. Look for the "Maintenance" Tab in the window that appears. There you will see commands for "Alignments" and "Head Cleaning" or some similar commands.

I suggest that you just perform this once since Head Cleaning consumes ink.

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Hi,
This happend with some printer models that both cartirdge should be there for proper printing.in your case this may be due to that some printing you do may be in gray scale printing that type of printing use color cartridge for printing.thats why your color cartridge get consumed.so pls replace color cartridge or refiel it.

Very Simply, yes you can replace just the black.The low ink indicator is just scientific guessing, if you get my point.I use my inkjet cartridges until they quit.After all, It's my money.
And yours.Good Luck

Go to Word>>
In new Documents

Type following with Big font size, their respective colour

BLACK
RED
BLUE
YELLOW

Now you will come to know which colour is not printing, in case any problem in nozzel or print head.
Secondly, go to Notepad and try printing somthing from that.

Please try this and provide your experience

First Perform deep print head cleaning if this fails and the print results are same then you may need to replace the print head on the printer .......


Good luck...

I had a similar problem and found out that you have to specify printing on plain paper. If you choose paper other than plain paper, it will make the black from other colors. Check also that all of your cartridges are seated properly. My magenta was not pushed all the way down so I got green instead of black ink when it mixed the colors to make black.

I found a solution to the Black printing problem :)
Under Printing Preferences: Set your Media Type to Photo Paper Pro.
We used edible ink cartridges and printed onto icing sugar paper. Same old... Just one day it refused to print black. In order to continue our small business, I degraded the color until I printed gray and not black.

Tonight, I browsed for the problem and came across this :)

Hope it helps you too

Do a thorough manual cleaning of printerheads (where the cartridges sit). Many printers are notorious for clogged nozzles and the ink dries on he prinheads until it becomes a bandind issue or ladders appear, smudges too. Use a proper cleaning solution and cotton buds, until most colour is gone off cotton buds. Reinsert cartridges and try again.

Check the following thread, it might apply to your problem. and just as a printer can be fooled to show a low level ink, I guess it can happen the other way around. http://www.fixya.com/problems-solutions/t103191,p342983/Epson-Stylus-Photo-R300-InkJet-Printer.aspx Good luck