My printer is printing colors wrong. I tried to print a picture of some family members, and what was supposed to be black was purple, what was supposed to be brown is a blueish color, and there's a ton of strong reds and greens. The faces look fine, except for a little bit of red, but the rest of the picture is terrible. It almost looks like a negative, except that parts of the picture (faces especially) are fine. It's one of those printer/scanner/copier all in one's (HP Photosmart C4240a, if that matters), and I've had it align and clean the print cartridges. That changed the colors a little, but they're still off, and now there are splotches of ink outside of the picture itself. I'm planning on using this printer to print photos as christmas presents, so I really need to get it working. I've only used it once or twice before this. Any suggestions?
Old ink cartridges can just become useless, especially if you don't use them regularly. The ink tends to dry out inside the printer. With the price of new cartridges, sometimes you are better off buying a new printer than new ink.



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