Put the new one in and it prints fine now and the flashing yellow light has gone out on the printer, there must be some sort of chip in the new cartridges, there must be a reset gadget or. I have a canon pixma and an old hp deskjet. i have no idea if your canon printer is anything like my hp which also was not printing yellow. still, what worked with it may work for you.. Best answer: unplug the power cable for 30 seconds and re-plug back in. go in the canon toolbox and/ or printer preferences and make sure that you go in printer services and align the new cartridges. that way, you are telling the software that you have replaced the ink and it will communicate and verify the printer..
I have a canon pixma mp780 colour printer and the colour printing has gone astray. reds have become a pale orange and whole pages have a yellow cast. the display showed all cartidges about half spent …. Canon pixma yellow color problem i have installed new cartridges on my canon pixma ip4200 printer, done deep cleaning, even cleaned/washed the print heads following by one instruction i found, but printer does not print the 100% bright, pure yellow color.. My canon pixma ip3000 is also printing in black and yellow only but i can't get a good answer from this site yet. algainor@verizon.net 2 answers last reply dec 11, 2012 best answer dec 4, 2012.
