Thread: Ever had this printer problem???

I get a feeling you are using a recycled cartridge.

Clean and then shake the cartridge downward as if you are trying to get the ink out of it. See if all the colour bleeds consitently out of all the designated holes. If it does then theres no block.

Now try and clean all the contact behind the cartridge and on the printer, that might be dirty contimated with inks.

Try a test print using the printer control panel, normally you hold one of the button while turning the printer on, check the manual for this. If you can see all the colour then your printer is ok, you have problem with your driver in that case

Not sure if your head and ink catridge are separate, if its seperate then I guess your head is gone. The tube or the ink pump might be faulty, the one that leads from the ink supply into the head. But I doubt that since you have many colour thats not working.

Yup for some reason yellow seems to dries up more often.

Hope that helps...let me know how it goes

I'm having sortof the same problem. I bought some third-party ink cartridges recently and when I tried them out, blue and yellow would print... but red would not. I sent it back to the guy I bought it from and hopefully I should get that sorted out. Printers are a pain. It costs just as much to buy the ink as it costs to buy the printer.

"HP printers are cartridge and heads"

Thats not exactly true for HP...cheaper HP printer use combined head/ink cartridge. HP business inkjet 2200/2250/2600/3000 all uses separate CMYK ink and head catrdidges, not cheap when each cost 55 USD or so, you need 4 head, 4 ink

Its very unlikely for a home user to use those type of printer so yes I guess he got one of those combined cartridge.

Yup best to buy a new printer in most cases