Just out of interest, what are your ink levels?
I have had a magic set of inks in my 1100. In other words, only two of the inks got to the point where it showed an "X" indicating I had to replace. But the other inks are miraculously at the exact same level, which appears to be about 10%. And it's been that way for two months.
I contacted Canon about this last week. They told me that all was good. My printer was just using those two inks more than the others. But that wasn't a reasonable answer since I am printing full color images and the others should be depleting at a similar rate.
Today, I was printing with those magical ink cartrdiged and all the sudden the print was desaturated and lacking color. So, one working theory is that Canon has a malfunction with the ink levels reporting correctly. And it's possible your printer is out of one or more of the inks that give you a full color print.
Would be interested if this resonates with anyone else. I'm going to have to deal with this issue, yet again. BTW, I should also mention that I am on my THIRD printer since having purchased in January. Canon is having some serious QC issues. It's a shame because I don't get paid to deal with these problems. And I teach hundreds of students a year and have to advise them on what hardware to purchase...
