My printer continues to print test sheets

This is what Hewlett-Packard has developed to find out when ink cartridges have ran out and to stop the printer from printing any more sheets. Now, why does this happen when I turn refill my ink cartridges or when you turn your printer on? This issue occurs when you take out an ink cartridge from the printer, since the printer has a way of knowing a cartridge has been removed or installed in it. Doing this will start a new process.

printer hp test page

The device will print this test sheet every time you remove one of its ink cartridges and put it back inside, regardless of it being filled with ink or not. This test sheet will let you know if the ink cartridge has ran out or is printing blurry, letting you see how the ink exists the cartridge itself.

This picture shows what this particular test sheet looks like.Remember this is only an example and that test sheets can vary depending on your printer’s brand or model.

Now, you may be wondering why are there so many lines on this page. As it turns out, all these lines produce a pattern that has been saved in the printer’s memory, and helps identify when the ink cartridges are fine.

Let’s summarize what we’ve learned so far. Your printer can know when you remove or place ink cartridges inside it. It will also know if we’re using a good or bad quality ink cartridge, or if we’ve been employing the same ink cartridge for a long time. In this particular case, the printer will ask us to replace certain ink cartridges, and will refuse to print any more pages until it’s been done.

How to eradicate this problem:

This situation has become a problem because the printer prints one of these test sheets every single day. The problem persists every time you get your ink cartridges refilled, making you send paper unnecessarily.

Now we only have to do as the printer says. All these lines printed on the test sheet are stored in its memory and are supposed to have a particular appearance. The printer won’t scan the colors themselves, but the lines needs to show up on the piece of paper. If your ink colors are messed up, the lines will not appear.

You will need to scan this printed sheet just as it was printed; the printer has a few indicators that will illustrate how to place the sheet on the scanner, and how to arrange the sheet’s edges. Place the sheet on the scanner only if you want to scan or copy it.

paper in the printer top // The green arrow indicates how to place to have them scanned

The outcoming test sheet will indicate us how to place it on the printer so it can perceive all the commands on it, and let us print other documents. If we don’t do this, this issue will follow us around all day and keep us from printing at any given time.

Here is a picture of what your printer will say and how to place these modern test sheets.

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We must now click on our printer where it says Print, Scan or Copy. If the ink cartridges have been refilled properly and everything has gone according to plan, you will have a normal printing process until you choose to refill or remove the ink cartridges once more. This can also happen when installing a new cartridge in the printer. However, this process can be cancelled on some printers such as the HP 45000 model.

We recommend you keep one of these test sheets in perfect shape, just in case you have some other ink cartridge issues in the future and need to scan these commands again.

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This post is based on information we acquired in our workshop. All the information in this entire blog is nothing but personal advice and personal suggestions from the editor. We do not represent any particular brand, now own any of the products’ names.