Questions & Answers for: canon black ink prints purple

...black in colour prints are 'blotchy', with a slightly purple hue. The same problem appears regardless of printing paper used. (eg Gloss or plain paper>) Dwonload 'Ink Saver' install it and adjust the ...

...Canon printer only prints in purple Even though the cartridges are fresh and I'm printing a black and white document, whether it's from the internet or Microsoft word Try selecting an option in the ...

...black My Canon i860 has been suddenly and more aggressively printing purple and black rather than the proper colors. Naturally I've tried all of the maintenance procedures built into the software but ...

...black ink or it is empty. It will try to make black with the other 3 colors which turns out to be closer to purple than black. Try reinserting the large black ink tank. Try a Black deep cleaning ...

...Canon printer has TWO slots for black ink cartridges. I assumed one was extra and didn't replace it when I ran out. Text printed just fine with only one installed, but my photos were printing with ...

and black and the dark areas turned out a purple color can you help? There are 4 inks, cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. When the black runs out, you are left with sort of a dark purple or brown color

...Black & White, or Greyscale? Also ensure that you do a head clean, too. Give the cartridge a good shake up to mix up the ink. If it is purple, make sure that,that isn't the color of the "Font" ...

...I check the black ink but is still half full. grey is often made up of all the colours, so if the greys are purple it would be the Yellow missing or not printing completely. Try a printer head

...canon cartridges in the printer and they all have lots of ink in them, but suddenly when printing the 'black' parts of a photograph looks purple. But when I print text in Word, it is black. It only ...

Canon Pixma 5100, no black ink, but blue won't print? why? Trying to get my printer to print some notes for travel, ran out of black ink, need to print ASAP, changed to blue, purple and red, but ...