Why does my printer print everything in yellow when i use the color ink cartridge to print something?

i have plenty of ink in the color cartridge but the print on the entire page looks like yellow highlighterWhy does my printer print everything in yellow when i use the color ink cartridge to print something?
because it is out of red and blue ink.Why does my printer print everything in yellow when i use the color ink cartridge to print something?
The above people have the correct ideal.





More than likely, its because the cyan and magenta inks are empty or clogged. Its attempting to print all 3 colors at the same time, and when you combine those 3 colors, it makes a very dark grey or black color.





If you can locate any printer utilities on your computer, attempt to run a cleaning cycle, follow by a nozzle or quality check. See if you can see any cyan or magenta print on that nozzle check/quality check page at all. If you don't that is your problem.





You can attempt to replace your color cartridge to fix your problem, but for example, on an epson printer, replacing the ink cartridge won't fix the issue since the printhead(the part thats clogged with ink) isn't replaced.





If this is a HP or lexmark printer, you can probably fix it by just replacing the cartridge with a new one.





Hope this helps!
u shud have something in ur printer options that says like, ';clean cartridge'; run that and it will print out a bunch of color lines and such on paper and a lot of times, it will fix probs like this. If that doesnt work, take the cartridge out and rub the place where ink comes out with a damp paper towel. Do this until red/blue come out on the paper towel.