Check the date on your ink cartridge. I bet it has expired. If you put in a "new"cartridge but it is even an HP one with an older date, it may not work.
I had my printer stop in the middle of a print job. It was printing fine and suddenly would not print. So I refilled the cartridge with an ink kit I had on hand and reinserted it--no go! Then I opened a remanufactured cartridge I had bought some time ago and inserted it. No go, despite the fact I could see ink coming from the jets. I finally gave up and bought a new HP ink cartridge, and it worked just fine. But it bugged me why the new one would work and the other two that seemed just fine would not.
Later I learned that HP has a chip that reads the expiration date on the cartridges and that is what keeps those old ones from printing. I found one trick of setting my date on my computer back to a year earlier than the exp date on the cartridge. I saw the date on the remanufactured one I had tried earlier was 2005, so I set my computer date to today date but year 2004. After forcing me to do print alignments several times and take the remanufactured cartridge out and put it back, I got it to print just fine. And that 2005 cartridge that would not work earlier is what I am printing with right now.
Be advised, though, if you try the date setback, that HP printer will buck and try every way to not let you use that old cartridge. You must say no to reflashing if HP tries to pull that on you. And you will take out and put back that same cartridge multiple times and keep printing alignment sheets 3 or 4 times before you are successful. But, if you persist, you can get it to work.
1.Out tray
(in down position)
2. press Power button
3. open top
cover
4. raise cradle latch
5. lift out cartridge
6.Remove the replacement print
cartridge from its packaging and carefully
remove the protective vinyl tape.
7.Insert the print cartridge firmly
into the cradle. Secure the cradle latch.
You hear a click when the latch is
fully secured.
8. Close the top cover.
If the Print Cartridge Status light
continues to blink after installing a new
print cartridge, check the part number
on the cartridge to verify that the
correct cartridge is installed.
9. Align
the print cartridges for optimum print quality.
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