Yellow prints Green -- Lexmork 3200

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Printer: Lexmark 3200.

For the third time, I just refilled my color cartridge. It uses three inks:
magenta, yellow, cyan. I tried to get the same amount of ink in each
cartridge. I filled them until the ink just got to the top (visible) on
each sponge. --or maybe over filled because some on some sponges the ink
ran over the top--but not out the fill holes.

All was working fine for a couple of days, but today, the yellow, printed
green.

I removed the ink from the yellow sponge. It was badly contaminated, murky
green.

I removed the inks from the other sponges and they all looked ok.

I refilled the yellow with an "ink cleaner." And made several passes to
clean the print heads.

I then took that ink out and put more "cleaner" in. Ran several more "clean
print heads'' and repeated the process, until I was getting yellow again.

Right now the printer is doing ok, with essentially, all the ink out of the
sponges. The colors are separate and clear.

Is the most likely answer, I overfilled the magenta & it contaminated the
yellow by somehow overflowing the top of the yellow sponge? Or would it be
a defect at the nozzle of the print head that mixes the inks?

These ink cartridges are expensive. It's almost worth it to buy a new
printer, than to replace the old ink carts. with new ones. I'm hoping it
was an overfill error on my part--but I really thought I did it right.

Ideas?

Thanks
Bob

 

[Troy]

Sounds like you are right,an overfill problem.