I have just replaced the coloured ink in my Canon Pixma MP150 Series Canon Printer and the ink is printing out very faintly on a couple of photographs, How can I make the printer print a good colour

Probably you've already tried the steps at about pages 79 and 90 in the manual . Try also cleaning off the nubs that touch the contacts on the cartridge. They might have some ink vapor coating them. If none of this helps, the printhead is clogged or defective. Sometimes a printhead cleaner will help.

You can try taking all the cartridges out, turning off the printer, let it sit for a couple minutes, reinstalling the cartridges, and turning back on. This is more like voodoo magic, but once in a while it works.

If not, then you pretty much have to kiss off the printer since the printhead is not replaceable.

it will be very hard to clean the print head manually you have to bring it to a service center canon pixma ink

Unfortunately yes you will need to replace the color as well.

Uninstall, reinstall your drivers.

Hi Irene
You solve the problem by replacing the empty ink cartridge.
Most printers (not just Canon) are designed to stop working if an ink cartridge is empty. This is to prevent the nozzles for the empty colour overheating and destroying themselves - the ink passing through acts as the coolant.

Go to Printers and faxes -> select your printer Canon MP150, right click -> properties -> maintenance -> ink cartridge settings -> select the ink cartridge for printing -> select Black only
Remember printer need both cartridges inside it for initialized and print.You can't print only with black cartridge in printer.

Besides service tool, mptool is the popularness software to reset printers canon pixma series like MP150, MP160, MP170, MP180, MP450 and MP460. Excess of software that is the program measure of small and amenity of usage. Ability of the software that is to reset level black and color cartridge at canon pixma mp series. And there also facility to write and read EEPROM in the printer. Other excess this software is detect automatically installing printers in the computer.
Reset Ink Counter.
Reset ink counter that is resetting ink level (ink metrer) cartridge at printer.

• Reset Black – reset level black ink cartridge.
• Reset Color – reset level colour ink cartridge.

Reset waste ink counter
To reset waste ink counter at printers canon pixma MP150, MP160, MP170, MP180, MP450 and MP460 there any 2 choice, that is :

• Reset Main (main).
• Reset Platen (additional).

go to this website download this software after that install it follow by instruction that i give to you do reset....
http://www.mediafire.com/file/yan3ytvdumt/MPTool.zip

error e4 means no ink, try reseating the cartridge. if it still won't print you got a bad cartridge, just take it back and exchange it.

this is not a printer problem, you have a problem with colour cartridge! u can fix this in 2 diferent way: 1. replace the colour cartridge with new one, or gently clean the nozzle cartridge with a wet tissue until the cyan colour mark a line on the tissue just like the others colours: yellow and magenta. maybe must repeat this several times.

See if your printing options on that card is set to "grayscale". If it is, then take that off.