My Canon Pixma MP210 prints only red and blue while the yellow color tank is still full. I tried cleaning, no results. The yellow ink is coming out on the clothing when I clean but still no yellow on the paper when I print. On the test page there's a white instead of yellow. Help please!

Maybe your printer cartridge that has been refilled got ink clogged. You can bring it to the store where you can let them clean it for you. It must be free for cleaning since it was refilled from them. Hope this help.

You can also clean your cartridge by following my instructions below:
BEFORE DOING BELOW INSTRUCTIONS,TRY TO CLEAN YOU CARTRIDGE FIRST USING THE DEEP CLEAN FEATURE OF YOUR PRINTER, THEN USE PRINT NOOZLE CHECK PATTERN.

1. Uninstall your cartridge.
2. Get a tissue paper.
3. Try to put the printer head over a small piece of tissue paper.

If you will see the three colors in the tissue(Cyan-close to blue, Magenta-close to red, and Yellow). It means it was not clogged, the problem is the chip of your color cartridge and needs to be replaced. But if the colors are blur and or nothing appears, it means the printhead of your cartridge is clog. You can proceed to step 4.

4. Try to put a little amount of water in a small piece of tissue paper and soak the printer head for a 2 min. Then remove it after.
5. Wipe the printer head with a dry tissue paper.
6. Reinstall the cartridge back to the printer.
7. Print a 4 basic colors, RED, BLUE, YELLOW and BLACK.
8. Clean the printer using the cleaning feature of your printer.
9. You can use deep cleaning twice. And Print a noozle print.
10. Hope it could help.

The problem could be in the printer head contacts, even if the printer driver should have signaled it. Anyway, try pulling out the color cartridge and cleaning the contacts on the printer with a lint-free swab cloth and circuit cleaner (in a pinch, alcohol should do; it's unlikely there's greasy dirt or heavy oxidising, it's probably some ink or hand grease), then put back the cartridge.

Another thing to check, even if it's unlikely, is that you don't have by chance a strange Color Profile management set up in the Control Panel or in the Printer Properties.

On a picture that you have printed, when you see an area of green, what color should it be? You probably have reduced flow of one of the "balancing" colors. Blue, Yellow and Red add up to Black. If your picture is supposed to be almost black and you don't have enough red, the color will pull toward the blue and yellow, giving it a green tint.

clean head cardrige and calibrate color cardriges.

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try to run a maintenance page or to clean the printhead go to your printer panel and select maintenance..and print maintenance page ..or to wipe it on a wet cloth in order to avoid clogs..

I doubt your printer needs recalibrated. If one color is not printing, check the following :

1. Is the suspect ink tank snapped firmly into place?
2. Did you remove the sealing paper pull tab completely off of the tiny air hole on the cartridge? I've had this happen and found the paper or a small part of it to be still in place which prevented the cartridge from working.
3. Try using the maintenance tab on "control panel" "Printers" "properties" and do a cleaning of the print nozzles. Do a "Print test pattern" procedure to see how your progress is working out.
4. If all fails, try another yellow cartridge. It may be defective

the problem is very simple the magenta ink the cartridge is over or the head is been blocked from where the magenta ink comes out,
because red colour requires ---yellow plus magenta(pink)----to make it red.and ----dark yellow plus magenta(pink) -------- for brown colour.

replaced ink cartridges..error message appears now telling me to re align printer..can you tell me how to do this

This is a simple problem just reset your printer's color management settings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)