How to restore HP 60 ink cartridges by using duct tape

With time, we’ve come to find many solutions for a variety of issues that have shown up in our own  printer workshop. This is why we‘ve chosen to create this post with a relatively vague solution, but one we can assure works 100% of the time: restoring your HP ink cartridges with duct tape.

This particular solution can isolate some of the contacts on your printer and get it confused about the type of ink cartridge we’re installing on it, and for how long it has been used. As you already know, printers have page counting programs that keep track of every page printed with each ink cartridge that has been installed in it.

The printer will know an ink cartridge has reached its maximum printing potential and send out error messages if we have them refilled and reinstalled in it. This is how Canon guarantees its earnings.

However, we can keep this from happening if we choose to install the basic set of drivers instead of the full package, as is indicated in the following post: I’ve refilled my ink cartridges but my printer says they’re empty.

Now that we know what the problem is, we need to find a solution for it. In our case, we’ll explain the one we’ve already used: restoring the HP 60 ink cartridges.

These are the materials we will need: You will need duct tape, preferably  thick, to keep the electricity from going back and forth. The printer and ink cartridge contacts will try to reach each other, so we must get in the middle of this in order to restore them.

Step #1:
Locate the contacts on your ink cartridges: they can be found on the front side. Please avoid touching them since they’re very sensitive to touch and could easily lose this trait.

hp cartridge connectors 60 for restoring

Step #2:

Cover two (2) of these contacts on your HP 60 ink cartridge, specifically the #3 and #4 ones. Do this before you place the ink cartridge back in the printer, and remember to use resistant duct tape in order to blow the electricity from passing from one contact to the other and isolate the ink cartridge completely.

You can see this in the next picture.

covering ribbon connectors hp 60 cartridge

Step #3:

You must cover these same contacts on the Colored ink cartridge as well before putting them back in the printer, just to make sure this process works. If this procedure doesn’t work out for you, remember we’re here to help, and you must only leave your question in a comment in the section below this post so we can get back to you.

tri-color ink cartridge covering three connectors

Step #4:

Once both sets of contacts are covered in the Colored and Black ink cartridges, we recommend you set them back in the printer at the same time. Do not install one after the other, but do it simultaneously, and certainly do not close the printer’s lid in the process. You can close it after they’ve both been installed in the printer.

Step #5:

Now that you’ve put the cartridges back and closed the printer’s lid, wait a few moments. The printer will send out an error message saying both ink cartridges are faulty, Don’t worry, this is perfectly normal and expected. It actually means the restoring process is working, so just continue with step #6.

Step #6:

Turn your HP printer off.

Step #7:

Move the ink cartridge carriage until the very center of the printer. Remember you must do this while the printer is on, and do not turn it on until this tutorial tells you to. You can now remove the ink cartridges from the printer. Please keep the duct tape on both contacts, we will be needing it again.

Step #8:

Add more duct tape to the ink cartridge contacts, this time to contacts #3, #4 and #5, the ones found on the right side of the cartridge starting from the bottom up. Their exact location can be found in the following picture.

connectors plugging their points

Step #9:

You can now set the ink cartridges back in the printer. Wait a little until the same error message as in step #5 is displayed on screen. Like we said before, these errors are perfectly normal and only mean the restore method is working.

Step #10:

Turn your printer off again, move the ink cartridge carriage to the center and extract them once more. You must now go back to the pieces of duct tape that were covering the 2 contacts mentioned in step #3. Put it back on the cartridges, covering the same contacts it was covering before, and set them back in the printer. The same error message will appear.

Step #11:

Turn the printer off and move the ink cartridge carriage back to the center. Take them out while the printer’s still off and remove all the duct tape from the ink cartridges.

Step #12:

Install both duct-tape free ink cartridges on the printer and turn it on. The printer must be  working normally and you should be able to use the cartridges on a regular basis from now on.

If you have any problems repeating the steps found in this blog post, or it simply doesn’t work out for you, please post a comment in the section below this post and we will get back to you with other possible solutions and the necessary clarifications.

The real secret behind HP 122 ink cartridges (CH561HL)

It’s a known fact that these ink cartridges are the biggest scam in the market for many different reasons, especially its low 120 page yield. The ink cartridge itself warns you about this fact on the packaging, which is completely unfair for a product that costs more than $10.

This ink cartridge holds but 2ml of ink and yields up to 122 pages.

box with printer hp

Personally, I find this very unfair, but that’s not even the biggest problem here. The actual issue is the discrimination going on in Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., with all the respect they deserve as an enterprise.
This picture portrays an HP Deskjet 1000 printer, a very popular model throughout Latin America. Another successful printer in the region is the HP 2050 - J510. As you can see, both models compatible with the HP 122 ink cartridge. HP continues to evolve every year, but it seems they’re focusing on their own personal profit coming, of course, from our pockets, not on improving their products or offering more to their clients.

I will now show you why I oppose this particular injustice that’s happening in front of us.

ink cartridge 122 in box

This is the ink cartridge we Latin Americans are used to seeing all over the market. You can clearly see it’s compatible with HP Deskjet 1000, 1050, 1055, 2000, 2050, 3000, 3050 and 3500A printer models, products sold throughout the region. We recommend you read our post that talks about why HP 122 ink cartridges become damaged so fast.

We’ll now show you the Hp 61 Black ink cartridge (CH561WA):

hp ink 61 in box

Here we have the Hp 61 ink cartridge, which holds 4ml of ink, yields up 190 pages and is sold in the US exclusively. You may be surprised to learn this product is also compatible with HP Deskjet 1000, 1050, 1055, 2000, 2050, 3000, 3050, 3500A, 3051A, 3052A, 3054 and 3054A printer models.

You can try looking for this ink cartridge’s datasheet, but if you’re doing it from Latin America or countries such as Japan, India and China, the website will automatically kick you out: their sale is restricted in all of these regions.

Now, do you think it’s fair one ink cartridge holds twice as much ink as the other, but they cost the same? The only real difference between these two is the places they’re sold at.

Please keep in mind you must never try placing an HP 61 ink cartridge inside any printer that uses HP 1222 ones. The printer will not recognize the ink cartridge and send out an error message at once.

However, it doesn’t end with these two ink cartridges. Please allow us to introduce the HP 301 Black ink cartridge (CH561EE).

HP 301 Black ink cartridge

This ink cartridge is only sold in Europe and the United Kingdom. I already know what you’re thinking: is it compatible with HP Deskjet 1000 printers made in the USA? This ink cartridge also holds 4ml of ink and yields 190 pages, and costs the same as the ink cartridges we have here in Latin America.

In all honesty, knowing this is happening is very frustrating for me, since customers don’t really have anyone who stands up for them and this is a hard process to give and end to. It seems companies only want to earn money and make us feel like using their products is the best we can do. If you do the math, the cost of one page keeps increasing for us, who are supposed to be the poorest ones.

How is, then, that they don’t want us to refill our ink cartridges? We all know their raw materials don’t cost that much, so please don’t take advantage of us.

This, however, is just something I want to talk about, a claim I need to make and a single speck of sand in the sea of deception we’re currently living in.

Make HP Officejet 6500 printers recognize its ink cartridges

We usually have problems with HP Officejet 6500 printers, since they refuse to recognize the ink cartridges we’ve placed inside them, whether they’re brand new, recycled or refilled.

printer hp 6500

We even considered the print heads were damaged, but this was a mistake: the problem persisted after these parts were replaced.

Replacing an entire HP Officejet 6500 headprint will cost you $45,00, a considerable amount to pay to replace an article that’s in perfect shape.

We’ve done quite a bit of research and have come to realize this problem is caused by a small sensor. This sensor is located on the left side of the mechanism that makes the ink cartridges move from one side to the other throughout the entire printing process.

Procedure to eradicate ink cartridge recognition issues on HP Officejet 6500 printers:

Step #1:
This procedure will help you clean your HP Officejet 6500 printer’s sensor, which is not recognizing the ink cartridges. We must press our printer’s On/Off button, located on the front side of the panel. The On/off button looks like this.

Step #2:
Open the gate leading to the ink cartridges. This will imply raising everything, the scanner included, to take a good look at the ink cartridges. Wait for them to reach the center of the printer and leaving the left side free.

Step #3:
Locate the sensor on the lower-left side of the ink cartridges; it will look like a small square. You must clean this section very carefully using a small piece of fabric to get the printer to recognize the ink cartridges.

Step #4:
Close your HP Officejet 6500 printer’s gate and wait for the ink cartridges to get back to their proper spot. You can now  print a test sheet.

Please verify the printer has properly recognized each ink cartridge. In case this doesn’t happen, you can contact us by leaving a comment in the section below this post.

Noise and some other issues in HP Multifunction printers

These last HP Multifunction printer generations have been a bit more sensitive than the previous ones. There are many issues with them, and one of the most frequent one is the rattling noise caused by the cartridge carriage moving swiftly from one side to the other.

Most people choose to ignore these little warnings, so this minor problem can become a much more grave one.

If you can not repair your printer, buy a new visiting here.

With the passing of time, the printer will stop working completely: it won’t scan, copy or print, and it will pull paper leaves and leave them empty. That’s when we start asking ourselves what could have gone wrong.

The answer is very simple: in one or many different paper jams, you pulled too hard on the paper sheet without canceling the document, whether on your computer, your printer or by unplugging the entire device.

Once you’ve repeated this exact procedure on your printer, it will eject a single paper sheet without having to pull on it, which could possibly break a small gear located at the end of the sliding bar where the cartridge carriage moves. It will surely get damaged or broken after the carriage hits it.

If this actually happens, we recommend you take your printer to a tech workshop where someone can find this piece for you, or change the entire printer if necessary.

Here we’ll show you two pictures of this piece:

a. Entire piece placed inside the printer. This is what the piece must look like once it’s inside.

printer noise hp

b. The gear is broken and has been removed from the printer.

piece in hp complete

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How to find out my printer’s model

This post is as necessary as any other one you can find in our blog, since not every person knows how to identify their printer’s model, which can be extremely necessary to know in certain cases, such as detecting the proper ink cartridges for your printer.

In some cases, you could be out in the street and realize you have forgotten to buy your own ink cartridges, so you have to send a friend to do it. This person doesn’t know you printer like you do and may lack the knowledge you possess, so it’s extremely important you know the specific printer model you’re using.

Note: You mustn’t confuse your printer’s model with the brand. Model: a specific type inside a brand; there aren’t any more versions of this particular printer inside the same brand. This fact will also help you identify any spare part or problem that may be happening on your printer. Brand: a more universal specification that involves several different articles. In this case, we’re talking about HP, Canon, Lexmark and others.

Now we will show you where you can find these exact specifications on the actual printer. Most domestic or business use printers, around 90% of them including copiers and other devices, carry the model with them on their front side. Some of them have it on the right side, some others on the left one.

model of hp printer

It will all depend on your printer’s brand. For example, HP printers usually have the model drawn on the right side, while Sharp printers have their on the front-left side. This doesn’t mean the printer’s model can be found in the same place on all printers, but it’s an important factor to take into account.

The model is simply a series of numbers or letters, which is usually depicted in large characters and fonts. The font, however, could be more related to the one inscribed in the printer’s carcass, as is shown in the next picture.

how know what is the model of printer

This picture shows us where the printer model can be found on the frontal side. However, this is not the only way of finding this out: in the lower part of the printer, there are usually some serial codes that will also allow us to learn the printer’s model. To find out how useful this serial code actually is, you must only Google it to obtain the following results.

The next link will redirect you to the Google results that come up after you put the serial number in the search engine.

Both in the upper and lower part of any printer, you’ll be able to find out its model. We’ve already explained the difference between printer brands and models to avoid future confusions, and we sincerely hope this post will help you solve any inconvenience that may show up. If you need more information on the subject, don’t hesitate on contacting us on our Google group.

This information doesn’t belong to the printer’s manufacturer; we only mentioned certain brands to help illustrate you on this topic. These are only the solutions we apply in our own workshop, so if you know of any other we’d be very grateful to hear about it.

How to delete documents in my printing queue

This post will help you get rid of pending documents that remain in your printer’s queue, which can become a very uncomfortable situation. We will have to waste paper sheets and time, maybe even ink, to fix this problem.

Sometimes, a document is coming out through the printing tray and we realize this is not the page or the document we wanted to print in the beginning, or that it’s simply not looking good and we need to cancel the entire file. Therefore, we head to the printer queue and cancel it, but the document stays there.

We choose to restart the computer and, once it’s back on, we see the document hasn’t left the queue. This can be so annoying we can start thinking printers are conspiring against us, even if we know this isn’t true.

This can be caused by two things: either the printer’s input card is worn out, or the cable that sends information to the printer from the PC is too old. As you can see, this is a communication problem between the computer and the printer.

In order to remove this document from the printing queue, the same one that isn’t allowing the printer to print anything else until this one’s done, all we need to do is get rid of any form of communication that may exist between the printer and the queued document on the computer. Here are the steps you must follow to eradicate this problem.

Follow the steps exactly as they’re described ahead to obtain the best possible outcome of this tutorial.

The solution to this issue starts now
This is a very simple procedure. All we need to know is our printer’s model, which is also very easy to find out. Once you’ve obtained this piece of information, you must go to the following locations on your computer:

Go to Start Menu, click on Control Panel and then on Printing Devices. There, you will right-click on the printer with the queued documents.  You will be able to identify this printer right away since it will show the amount of pending documents in the bottom-right corner, or just by hovering on the printer’s icon.

You must now open this printer and see the documents that are on queue, and then click on Cancel All Documents on the window that will show up onscreen.

This next image will show you how and what to click on Control Panel to set a default printer on your computer.

panel control in star menu

This next image will show you how and what to click on Control Panel to set a default printer on your computer.

hardware and sond

This other image shows how to identify Printing Devices in your Control Panel menu.

The next picture will illustrate how to establish a printer of our choosing as the default one after identifying our printer’s model.

select you printer

Once you’ve hovered over the printer, as previously indicated by us, we’ll be able to identify which printer has documents on queue and proceed to right-click on it, opening the window that will let us see these files.

printing now

Here is the window we’ve been looking for, where we’ll detect the exact file that’s causing all this trouble. This is the route you must follow from now on:

Click on the lower-left part of the window, right where it says Printer / Cancel All Documents. Do this once more exactly where it says Printer / Cancel All Documents.

Disconnect the USB cable and connect it once more if the document is still in queue; you must wait about a minute. Disconnect the power cord that feeds the printer.

If the problem persists, remove all the paper sheets from the tray and restart the computer.

This must have solved the queued documents issue in our printers, which will stop printing these files. Its LED indicators will also stop blinking and asking for more paper sheets.

This post is based on information we’ve compiled in our workshop. We’ve executed this same procedure and it has worked perfectly on our printers. If you have any other question or know of a better solution for this issue, please post a comment in the section below.

How to refill HP 22 tricolor ink cartridges

This HP 22 Tricolor ink cartridge is one of the best products ever made by HP, due to its high yield and the material they’re made of. These cartridges have a higher resistance than most current ones; modern ink cartridges tend to be measured with the same criteria. You can read more about this on our post Why to avoid disposing of or replacing my old printer.

One of the most important factors to consider when naming a product one of the best ones of an entire brand, as we’re doing right now, is compatibility. This particular ink cartridge is compatible with countless printer models; the entire compatibility listing will appear further along this post.

You can also learn to refill the HP 21 Black ink cartridge, the one that accompanies this one. This one’s also a very high yield ink cartridge.

We also recommend you keep any printer that uses this ink cartridge until the very end. You can replace it once it’s incapable of printing again.

This ink cartridge yields up to 165 pages, an amount that can go down to 120 pages after it’s been refilled. This will stay this way as long as you follow this tutorial strictly.

Instructions to refill an HP 22 Tricolor ink cartridge:

Before starting the refill process, we recommend you clean the contacts on this ink cartridge. While this is necessary, it’s not really mandatory since these ink cartridges are known to have very high page yield. However, if you haven’t used them in a while, there may be some dried ink lying on the print heads. In this case, we recommend you read our post How to clean my print heads.

After this cleaning process has been done, again, a necessary but voluntary procedure, we’ll proceed to refilling our ink cartridges. Please remember to clean your cartridge’s print heads after they’ve been refilled three (3) times.

Step #1:
Place the cartridge on a surface that can take an ink spill or two. We recommend you stay away from white materials, since the ink will probably stay on them. This is why we suggest you use any black material, or even a flat surface where you can remove ink stains easily.

Step #2:
You can now remove the label located on the top of the ink cartridge; it will hold the ink cartridge’s number. We always recommend you remove the entire label before refilling your ink cartridge, since this label lets the necessary amount of ink enter the ink cartridge. This airflow aids your print quality and page yield, helping your printer reach the highest standards. Remove this label very slowly and keep it from harm.

Step #3:
Fill a syringe with 5ml of colored ink. Do not exceed this amount to avoid damaging your cartridge by surpassing the amount of ink it was made to hold. Adding more ink than necessary to an ink cartridge can jeopardize it.
Tak a look at color application in the following picture.

the color for 22 hp ink

Step #4:
Very carefully, place the labels back on the ink cartridges. Try and put these back as well as possible to allow a certain amount of air to enter the cartridge; this air will flow thorugh the canals inside the cartridge and make the ink drop.

Step #5:
Place the cartridge back in the printer and have the printer clean them. This will put them in the right stop. Take into account you’ll only reach ultimate print quality once you’ve printed about eight (8) pages using these ink cartridges. You could also print a color test sheet if you want to.

Even if you repeat this entire procedure just as we did it, things may not go according to plan. In that case, we have plenty of time to help you, and you must only post a comment in the section below this post to contact us. We’ll be glad to answer each one of your messages.

How to reset normal // XLS #920 HP ink cartridges

“The following ink cartridge appears to be missing or damaged.”

This is the message that torments us when we refill #920 and #920XL cartridges.

Here is the solution:

So far, we do not know of any method that works 100% of the time on this type of cartridge when it comes to resetting them without changing the chip. As you already know, occasionally the chip alone often costs half as much as a new ink cartridge.

Until now, we have been proving, unofficially, a great way of resetting these cartridges. We’d have to keep looking for solutions, as you also should. If you have another one, please comment on this post in order to help everyone out.

Tutorial:

• We recommend you remove the head print and the ink cartridges from your printer before getting this process started. You will have to clean the cartridges delicately with toilet paper or paper napkins, considering their sensibility.
• First, we restore the printer entirely. When these cartridges cause problems, they stop reacting to any key or button that can be pressed. This product’s evolution is only fair for the sellers.
• In order to restore the printer, we must disconnect it for about twenty (20) seconds. “The printer must be on when we disconnect it.”
• The printer must be disconnected for at least twenty (20) seconds, “but we’d it prefer if you left a few more seconds pass.”
• Before reconnecting the printer,  we must press the keys corresponding to number three (3) and the pound or hashtag key (#).
• Now that we’ve connected the printer, we’ll have to wait while keeping both keys pressed down, until the printer sends the same error message again: “The following ink cartridge appears to be missing or damaged.” The damaged ink cartridges’ names will appear.
• After this entire process is done, we can start discarding the ink cartridges that are effectively damaged. What you must do is open the printer, remove the cartridge the printer is pointing out as damaged and put it back in. If this happens with another cartridge or the rest of them, you must do the same with each and every one of them until they’re all working properly.

This can happen more than once on the same ink cartridge, and that’s fine. You only need to remove the cartridge and repeat the process once more.

“Note: the ink cartridges will not show the amount of remaining ink again, but they will print perfectly and without problems. The printer will no longer recognize the amount of ink. In case you want this amount to be displayed, we recommend you change the chip for a new one.”

My printer pulls more than one paper sheet at a time

This may happen when printers are a bit old and their parts have been worn out due to daily use. This daily use, added to the passing of time, could possibly cause printing problems.

To this day, this problem keeps appearing, and the only radical and definite solution involves changing some of the printer’s parts. We, however, use an alternative that works all the time, and it consists of loading the printer up with many paper sheets.

When we talk about many sheets, we’re not talking about loading it up so it cannot work, but only to fill it up with the adequate amount so it doesn’t compromise or force its functioning.

We recommend you take good care of your printer and pay a lot of attention to paper jams, since they can damage its internal parts. Take even better care of it if it’s an older model, since those are the best ones out there; it has been proven to be so.

If you know of any other solution for this problem, please comment on this post. If you have another question related to this issue, you may use our own group and send us a personalized question. We will do our best to answer it.

I’m putting my refilled cartridges back in the printer and the On/Off button keeps blinking

This post deals with a frequent issue that appears when we refill cartridges, put them back in the printers and the On/Off button blinks.

This is a very common scenario and, regrettably, bad news. This happening means the printer has stopped recognizing the cartridges, and that only happens when the ink cartridge is damaged.

But the truth is that, if the On/Off button blinks, either the print cartridge contacts or the printer connectors are dirty.

ink conector printer hp

Here we have the print cartridge connectors. Remember to clean them with wet toilet paper, preferably.

ink cartridge conector hp

Cleaning the printer or the print cartridge connectors:

1. The solution to this small problem with the dirty connectors is to clean them, whether they’re the printer connectors or the print cartridge ones. We recommend you clean them with wet paper napkins or toilet paper. With this, all you’re doing is allowing the contacts to finish their own work, and the ink cartridges to finish the pending process of transmitting the heat from the printer towards them.

In case this first process doesn’t work:

1. Unfortunately, there is no alternate solution in this case. It seems the ink cartridge has been completely worn out. The only possible fix is replacing the damaged cartridge for another one, whether you use a new one or a used cartridge. This damage occurs when the ink cartridges aren’t able to heat the glycerin in the ink in order to make it expand throughout the sheet of paper. When the printer starts heating the head prints up and the ink cartridges are empty, the heat burns them and the circuits are damaged in the process. This is what causes the On/Off button to blink.

If you have any other solution to this problem, please put it in a comment down below. The fact that this post has already been made doesn’t mean that it’s the best way of performing this operation: our intention lies on sharing. If you know of any other way of doing this, please present it, we agree with sharing and solving. If you have any question similar to this one or a more complex one, please make it in our group.

Page yield, or how many pages you can print out of your ink cartridges

This is a very hot topic, talked about and searched for all over the media. It’s also very important that you can count on a tool similar than the one Hewlett-Packard has created for us, since it will help you identify how many pages you can print with your ink cartridges.

However, it can do much more than this. It can also help you know how much ink to refill your ink cartridges with, which is not an easy task to execute unless you have the original packaging. This little box is the only place where you can obtain this information and avoid clogging your ink heads. Also, adding more than the necessary volume can compromise proper functioning.
For example, color ink cartridges tend to print poorly, especially when the Yellow and Magenta color are mixed together. In this case, we need the exact amount of ink for printing, not less or more, but just the quantity indicated in the packaging. You can also check this out in the Hewlett-Packard website, but it’s too big a site to browse.

There’s one section out of the entire website that can help you find page yield information about your ink cartridge. It’s called HP SureSupply.

hp sure supply for hp

You will find all the information you need about ink cartridge yield right where it’s indicated in the picture. We recommend you type everything from the printer type to the model; you could also add the ink cartridge number, but that search could give out many more results than needed.

For example, we’ve already typed in our printer model. You can now see the results we got using this system: the #27 ink cartridge will show up, along with all the information regarding the amount of ink it works with.

ink cartridge hp

As you can see, the amount of ink needed for the #27 Black ink cartridge has shown up. There is, however, a logical way for us to come to the conclusion that the #28 Tricolor ink cartridge uses the same amount of ink as the #27 one. As we know, the #27 ink cartridge uses 10ml and prints about 280 pages with 5% ave, as indicated in the search result. This same ave percentage lets us know the #28 ink cartridge uses the same amount of ink as the #27 one, even when the total is distributed between its three orifices.

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Please remember the information supplied by this blog is meant to be shared. We appreciate every comment and additional solutions we can receive regarding this issue. If you have a more personalized question, you can post it in our group called “You have a question, we have an answer.” Thank you very much for visiting our blog, and please comment!

How to install a page counter on my printer

This post will teach you how to install a page counter program on your computer and keep track of all printing jobs.

This is a great program when it comes to counting the exact amount of pages our printer is, in fact, printing. Keeping this record will allow us to analyze our ink cartridges’ yield and payup.

Quite frankly, knowing how many pages are coming out of our printer is the best thing that could happen to us, especially if we own businesses in which we need to need to know the exact quantity of pages being printed in it.

This program is extremely easy to install and use, since the information can be stored in a single document of your choosing, even in a hidden folder that can only be located and accessed by the administrator. The program is also free and works really well.

Click here to download the program

papercut print logger

You must only click on the lick and it will redirect you to the program’s official website, where you will need to choose your Operating System before proceeding with the installation and usage of the actual product.

There are documents in queue but nothing’s being printed

This post will deal with this problem, which tends to appear on relatively new printers. It’s a matter of connection and can be easily solved. However, it comes with a price: if your printer shows this linking issue, you must only change the USB cable.

printer usb cable

This is the cable you will need to replace.

Buy a USB cable to your printer

This is clearly related to the cable’s own age. If the problem persists, we recommend you clean the printer’s connection post thoroughly with a toothbrush, the small orifice shown ahead.

clean the contact signaled in the picture

If you have any questions, remember that you must only post a comment, we will gladly help you solve it.

Restore your Hp Deskjet F4480 printer with HP 60 ink cartridges

Learn how to restore your HP Deskjet F4480 printer by following our quick three-step tutorial.

This post will deal with restoring the HP Deskjet F4480 printer, which stopped recognizing the ink cartridges from the moment they were refilled. Also, both the On/Off and the ink cartridge indicators have been blinking for a while. This process will take a bit of patience and a few blank sheets in the paper tray.

You may also be interested in learning how to align your HP 60 ink cartridges inside the printer. Click on the previous link to perform this alignment, which is completely up to you.

Now the actual restoring process for the HP Deskjet F44480 printer can start.

Step 1.

Turn the printer and wait for it to be fully functional: it must finish cleaning the ink cartridges and setting them in place. The LED indicators will, of course, continue to blink.

Step 2.

Press the On/Off down and, without letting it go, press the Cancel button, which can be found a little bit down the road from the first one: a red button with a cross drawn on it.

You must keep going for about 30 seconds, since we’re restoring the printer back to its original factory settings. This will occur after this entire process is finished.

Note: The printer will print a test sheet using it’s proper system, so you won’t need to connect the printer back to the computer for this particular case.

Step 3.

Now we can print a document directly from our computer; keep in mind the former buttons will still blink. However, the ink cartridge indicator will stop doing it, and they will print perfectly.

In case none of these procedures work out as you expected them to, you can take a look at our post created to restore HP 60 Black and Tricolor ink cartridges using duct tape.

Please keep in mind this post is based on our own experience at our printer repair workshop. If you happen to have another solution for this problem, we suggest you post it in a comment or send it to us so we can publish it on this blog.

What is the best HP Multifunction printer of 2012

What could be the best HP Multifunction printer of 2012? Read this post to find out our choice and the reasons behind it.

Dear readers, here you will find the answer to your question., one that I see is posted on this blog every single day. We’re all obviously very interested in knowing what the best printer is to fulfill our daily needs. This device shouldn’t get damaged right away and help us save money in ink cartridges or toner, whichever our case may be. As we’ve said in previous posts, what really matters is the ink cartridges, not the printer itself.

Most printers are basically the same device and work almost the same as one another. If, for example, you try to judge them based on page yield, you will see the HP Deskjet 100 printers is one of the worst ones in the market. However, you install the HP 122 Black or Tricolor ink cartridges on this same printer model and change the inner sponge so they can hold up to 10ml of ink, the printer itself will become a hit.

This ink cartridge will amp up this printer’s page yield and it to the top of the list, meaning the ink cartridge is much more important than the actual device when it comes to making a good one. The actual print quality and page yield depend on them.

However, since we’re currently looking for the best multifunctional printer of 2012, we must know it will need to have good ink cartridges. Therefore, I present you the ink cartridges that fulfill these expectations:

• Best Epson Inkjet printer of 2013
• Best HP Laserjet printer of 2013

HP 920XL Black / Magenta / Yellow / Cyan ink cartridges.

For example, this Black ink cartridge can print up to 1,200 pages, a very decent amount considering this is one of the older ones. If you wish you compare its page yield with some of its partners’, we recommend you take a look at both the links added before.

920 ink cartridges

• You may be interested in learning how to restore HP 920 ink cartridges.
• You may also wish to read on about cleaning the headprints on HP printers that work with this ink cartridge in particular.

Now all we must do is find out which is the best MF printer, for which we’ll need to search printer models compatible with the ink cartridges shown ahead. These printers will obviously be very good, but the ink cartridges will make them yield much more than before.

One of the award-winning printers if:

HP Officejet 6500 series printers.

The information supplied on this post is based on free pieces of advice we give our customers. It’s not a rule, but only experiences we’ve acquired from our work environment. If you know of any other answer to this same question, please post it in a comment.

How to refill the HP 21 black ink cartridge

I believe the ink cartridge hp 21 black is the most widely sold cartridge in America, this ink cartridge is one of the cartridges that has lasted the longest in hp printers, and the performance of this cartridge is excellent, it has about 5 ml of ink which allows for the printing of about 120 pages, after refilling the cartridges, the production is always reduced by 20% , this is normal , we know that it’s not the same , unless we put more ink than usual in our cartridge, but this would present a problem for the cartridge because this could cause the termination of its lifespan and then we would not be able to fill it again.

We always recommend knowing how much ink to refill your cartridges with, it does not matter which cartridges they are, they always have a limit for checking ink and this limit cannot be surpassed. We recommend reading how to know how much ink to refill your cartridge with, this way we avoid making mistakes and damaging our cartridges.

Instructions on how to refill the hp 21 black ink cartridge

Before starting, we recommend cleaning the print connectors for this type of cartridge, it is necessary but not mandatory to do this since these cartridges perform well, but mainly if you have not used them for a long time it’s possible that they have dry ink in the heads which is not good, we recommend reading how to run a print head cleaning cycle for my cartridge.

After completing the cleaning cycle, remember that it’s not mandatory, but just in case you do want to do it, it is recommended after three refills. Let’s proceed to the refill procedure.

Step 1.

Place the cartridge in a place where ink spills are allowed, a white material is not recommended as ink cannot be removed from it, instead we would recommend a black material, even a flat surface where ink can be removed with ease would work.

Step 2.

We now proceed to removing the label that has the cartridge number on top, we always recommend removing the label from the cartridge before refilling it, this allows the required amount of air to enter so that the printing is of the highest quality and optimal performance due to this cartridge. Slowly remove the label to avoid damaging it.

Point of entry

Step 3

Now we slowly refill with 5ml of ink, please do it very SLOWLY , you need to do it in this way so that the ink inside the cartridge may spread in the best way and fill the whole sponge.

Step 4

Now that we have filled the ink cartridge, all we have to do is print a test page with this cartridge, we recommend leaving the cartridge in the printer.

Even if you have followed this procedure, it is possible that it will not print out very well, if so, you are asked to please contact us through a comment on this post and we will help you immediately.

Why not to change or throw out my old HP® printer

Whatever you do, don’t even try to throw out a Hewlett-Packard  printer from the generation 2007 and before, these are the best printers that there may be because their cartridges have a high capacity, such as the 21,22,28,27, among other cartridges are those that ensure the highest quality prints and a reaction at the time of filling.

If one day one of these printers were to damage the cartridge, damage the power supply or any part you must find a way to fix it.

printer old type HP

These printers are worth their weight in gold due to the reasons mentioned above.

How to reset the 122 HP® cartridges

I hope to solve your problem without giving you the solution "But it is the reality"

Unfortunately this case cannot be solved because these cartridges are not very strong, it is an ongoing problem which occurs when this cartridge is refilled.

ink cartridge hp black and tricolor

We always recommend refilling these cartridges using the following procedure.

• How to refill ink hp 122 black cartridges
• How to refill hp 122 tricolor ink cartridges  

So much so that the creators of these cartridges Hewlett-Packard have discontinued the cartridge 122 without completing the continuation of their printers.

You may be interested in the following links:

• The real secret of the HP 122 cartridges

HP Deskjet 1000 printer says that the cartridge is jammed

1. Disconnect and install the printer again.
2. Turn off the printer by pressing the power button for about 10 seconds and turn it on again.
3. Disconnect all of the printer from any USB’s and the electricity and connect it again.

There is another option which provides service and the HP page for your users to click on for more info to see the official release of the product.

car HP jam

Problem

The message "Support the jammed cartridges / clear the jam and press OK" in the control panel. The product can also have one of the following problems:

• A paper jam
• The product does not print
• Printing stopped unexpectedly

How to use the solutions in this document

A carriage jam can occur for several reasons, such as obstructions in the carriage path, a paper jam, or even issues with the product software.

To solve the carriage jam, try each solution in this document, and then use the steps in this section to print a self-test page and determine if the product hardware functions correctly.

Once you have solved the carriage jam and the product prints a self-test report correctly, there is no need to continue troubleshooting the problem.

How to know which cartridges my HP® printer use

Dear Readers searching on the HP® website. I have found the information you never thought there’d be, it is a small tool to identify what kinds of cartridges your printer uses, this may not save much money when buying cartridges, but I have had clients who come to our store without knowing what kind of cartridges their printer uses.

Purchase any cartridge for your printer and here comes the problem, when you buy cartridges that are not compatible it is a bit difficult to deal with the reality that you spent money for a cartridge that does not work for your printer.

Ink cartridge identification software

To identify which cartridge your printer uses, you need to know your printer model.
You just have to click on the link that will take you to the address where you can see the compatibility for your HP printer cartridges.

HP page to find your cartridges model

If in your case you use another printer that is either Canon, Lexmark, Brother, or other brands I recommend this page is very good and works perfectly.