Have issues with your printer printing the wrong colors? In this guide, let's go over exactly what to do to fix incorrect color issues. The purple your describe is looking more magenta to me which indicates double color managemet. This means both the printer driver and the application or your OS is managing the color profile the printer is using.
I recently changed out the cyan (yes, with a HP cartridge), have updated the drivers, cleaned the machine and run it through its paces. The color test sheet prints out purple, but printing a flyer from Adobe, the purple is blue. It sounds like for some reason your printer isn't using the black ink cartridge, but rather relying on the CYM cartridge to combine all three colors to make black.
However, when your cartridge is out of yellow, you get purple instead of black. What does the printer say about ink levels? Are your cartridges old and maybe dried out? Have you tried running the cleaning cycle on the printheads? Brown turning purple often results from ink cartridge issues or color calibration errors.
Check if the brown or yellow ink cartridges are low or clogged, as missing yellow shifts brown hues toward purple. Run a print head cleaning cycle via printer settings to clear blockages. Additionally, verify color profiles and printer driver settings to ensure accurate color mixing.
Regular maintenance. When I print it does the purple and white. Ink levels are fine.
I don't have grayscale on. When I take that same purple and white print out and make a copy it comes out black and white. Im sure there is some Microsoft Update that screwed things up.
Always does. The printer driver will typically render graphics (such as most stuff from a web page, even the text in some cases) in color for better quality. See here for information on troubleshooting print quality issues.
In Windows 7 you can set the printer to "Black only" in the features tab of printing preferences. Use the fixes provided here and see if they help. Fix Printer printing wrong colors on Windows PC If your printer is printing in the wrong colors, the following suggestions will help.
My Canon ix6820 printer has started having problems recently with printing black. It now substitutes all black in photos for a dark, sometimes pastel purple color, except for when I am printing documents/shipping labels, etc, then it prints in black. My printer is printing purple i changed all ink cartridges but it still prints purple.
can you help? Do i do that?