any idea why my yellow printer ink is now orange?

[faerywings]

Early in March I made/printed 2 birthday cards on my printer and all color inks were fine. I made a seriously adorable Easter card for my godson and I was so upset to see that instead of greens and yellows, it printed in browns and oranges. I cleaned the cartridges to no help. There is still 50% ink levels in the color cartridge and the blue and pink are perfect hues.

I don't think the ink is all that old, which is my only guess what might make it turn orange.

Has this happened to anyone?

PS: I decided to pull it out of the printer- it expired 2/13. That is really not all that old? Sheesh, i take meds that have expired farther back than that....And why would it print fine one week and totally not the next?

Now I am asking if there any any way to make it better??

 

[Alegna]

sorry, I have no idea, I hope you are able to fix it!

 

[val]

maybe (really guessing) but ink a a mix of different chemicals,
and running out of date can be transalting in " more sensible to oxydation /air ... hence color changeing with oxydation??? or humidity ...

even closed I have seen ink color changed when old, so yes, i guess the age of ink is the guess I would make.

v

 

[Åsa]

Oh that Sounds like an expenses you d happy liv without. Hope you can find à way around it. I tried to Google for à hit, but no luck. Val,s educated guess Sounds resonable.

 

[cellomom]

Is it a refill ink cartridge or brand new???? I found that my refills didn't work worth beans...

That's my only knowledge on the subject!

 

[Ellen]

I would do a nozzle check to make sure that all colours are printed .It could simply be that one cartridge is blocked and therefore not making the right mix.

 

[Kiliki]

that happens to me once in a while...I have no idea why it happens but the last time I just change the type of paper I used and then it worked fine?

 

[petey111]

It got frisky with the red.

 

[VickiStegall]

That bites! I think it's probably the old ink but I'd definitely do a nozzle check or cleaning and see if that takes care of it.

 

[clarabear]

What a pain. I have no answers. I can't even get my printer to print. Ugh. Lol.

 

[faerywings]

thanks ladies
I did the 3 level cleaning, with no change, I took it and and shook it up a bit (maybe if I slap it around too??) and I'll try again.

If that doesn't work, I think I have another color cartridge somewhere. It just stinks to waste the other good colors, yannow???

It got frisky with the red.

:rofl:
Bwuhahahaahaaa!!!!

 

[faerywings]

and good thing all of the colors didn't turn brown, that would have been quite and messy three-some!!!!
ound:

 

[petey111]

Lol