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PIXMA TS202 color documents printing in just one color

Donny_King84 — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:37:40 GMT

I have enjoyed using my canon pixma ts 202, but something very strange happened.

A little back story first, my printer was working just fine and then I had some malware I couldn't get rid of, so I took it to the geek squad (what a mistake that was). The malware was removed and so was the software I had on my laptop.

No problem re-installed my software. I needed to print out some documents, but I ran out of ink. No problem got my ink, and started to print them out, Houston, we have a problem.

The color ink, which I needed was one color only. I thought of everything, I downloaded the IJ printer assist tool, ran the cleaning, deep cleaning, nozzle check, bottom plate cleaning, roller cleaning. Uninstalled my printer, re-did everything from scratch, still the color was only one color, bought new printer ribbons, still nothing, and here I bought the canon brand not on the onn brand of ink for this printer, updated the drivers. I am running out of ideas, I even re-did the nozzle check, made sure full color printing was checked, I didn't pay much for this printer, I had it since it first came out in 2015, I am wondering if I should just cut my losses with it. I

Re: PIXMA TS202 color documents printing in just one color

DerrickL — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:01:44 GMT

Peform a nozzle check from the printer panel. Make sure the tape is removed from the cartridge print heads. A nozzle check from the printer panel does not rely on drivers to print. Let us know what it shows.

You need to prepare: a sheet of A4 or Letter-sized plain paper

Make sure that the power is turned on.
Load a sheet of A4 or Letter-sized plain paper on the rear tray.
Pull out the paper output tray and the output tray extension.
Press and hold RESUME button and release it when Alarm lamp flashes 1 time.

The nozzle check pattern will be printed.

Do not perform any other operations until the printer completes the printing of the nozzle check pattern.

Re: PIXMA TS202 color documents printing in just one color

Donny_King84 — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:05:49 GMT

This is what it showed

Re: PIXMA TS202 color documents printing in just one color

DerrickL — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:51:17 GMT

It appears to be a bad Color Cartridge problem or chip connection issue. . My printer color cartridge went bad yesterday, would not print both cyan tests , only the top one which gave my prints a magenta cast. That discolored the labeled boxes from black to brown. I was using a Canon Cartridge remanufactured by a third party. It went bad at half empty. I suspect the cartridge chip malfunctioned. .

Re: PIXMA TS202 color documents printing in just one color

Donny_King84 — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:55:49 GMT

well maybe the 3rd time is the charm, guess I get to go to wallyworld....again

Thanks for your assistance