Solved: HP 933 Yellow Cartridge is printing green - HP Support Community

Kimin2son · ‎09-07-2014

I just replaced my "empty" cartridges, but the yellow is printing green. Even on the test page. What is wrong?

Bob_Headrick · ‎09-07-2014

A quick alternative to cleaning would be to make a large block of yellow on a page in a program such as Word or Paint (or some Mac equivalent if using a Mac). Print the page a few times. If there is improvement in color as the page progresses things may be recoverable, if the second page looks like the first then outlook is not so bright.

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Bob_Headrick · ‎09-07-2014

What printer model?

The yellow printing as green would indicate an ink mix with yellow and cyan, perhaps in a defective printhead. In some cases this may clear after a number of cleaning cycles.

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Kimin2son · ‎09-07-2014

Thanks Bob. How do I clean the printhead? Unfortunately, I have a meeting out of town tomorrow and needed to print a large amount of agendas, handouts, etc., and color is important :-/.

Bob_Headrick · ‎09-07-2014

What printer model? What operating system? The details for cleaning the printhead will depend on the answers....

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Bob_Headrick · ‎09-07-2014

A quick alternative to cleaning would be to make a large block of yellow on a page in a program such as Word or Paint (or some Mac equivalent if using a Mac). Print the page a few times. If there is improvement in color as the page progresses things may be recoverable, if the second page looks like the first then outlook is not so bright.

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Kimin2son · ‎09-07-2014

Thanks, still getting a bit of green, but at least my color printouts look much better.

CptWildchild · ‎07-25-2017

THANK YOU!!! I made an account just to say that! My printer started to print green instead of yellow all of a suddent and i tried a bunch of stuff to reanimate it.

I printed 1 full page of yellow, it started off as green but the bottom of it was the right yellow!!!

THANKS again!

P.S. My printer is DeskJet 1050

HP 933 Yellow Cartridge is printing green

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