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Printer Problems The printer is not printing colour. There is ink in the cartridge and everything is connected but when you print something in colour it makes all the right noises but when the paper comes out the other end it is blank.

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  • Anonymous Dec 12, 2007

    Black ink not printing, replace cartridge but still no print. It THINKS its printing but all I get is blank pages.

  • loycie Dec 15, 2007

    new cartridges printing blank pages only

  • Anonymous Jan 15, 2008


    Dell A940 All-In-One printer was printing fine till I left it a while and not using it, ordered new cartridges from Dell, and when received 'you come and make it print!!!!' I had to leave it and buy a new printer, but I still use the scanner. Everything seems OK but the ink is not released to the paper, something is blocking it. I have read about other printers boiling the printer head etc. but I don't even know how to get it out! Isn't it time for these manufacturers get their business fixed.

  • Anonymous Jan 15, 2008

    Dell A940 All-In-One printer was printing fine till I left it a while and not using it, ordered new cartridges from Dell, and when received 'you come and make it print!!!!' I had to leave it and buy a new printer, but I still use the scanner. Everything seems OK but the ink is not released to the paper, something is blocking it. I have read about other printers boiling the printer head etc. but I don't even know how to get it out! Isn't it time for these manufacturers get their business fixed.

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I recently used a re-filled cartridge from Staples and it did not work. When returning the cartridge they let me know that 50% of their cartridges are being returned for the same reason. I recommend returning the cartridges and purchasing a "Name Brand" cartridge and trying again. Let me know if this works.

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What you want to do to get your printer working again is to clean the ink heads using the maintenance program that came with your printer.

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Try to re-seat the ink cartridge.

  1. Press your printer's button to position the ink heads for replacement
  2. Then gently pull out the problematic ink cartridge.
  3. Turn the printer OFF to reset the printer's memory.
  4. After about 3 minutes, turn ON your printer and it should now ask for the missing ink cartridge.
  5. Now gently put on the problematic ink cartridge in place.
  6. Let the printer re-charge the inks and clean the ink heads afterward through the printer's maintenance program installed in your computer. (Go to "Printer's and Faxes, right click on your installed printer, then click "Printer's Preferences. Go to the "maintenance tab" and click on something like Print Head Cleaning.)
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