HP 1610 will not power up !

1. Remove the rear cleanout from the printer.
2. Gently remove any jammed paper or bits of paper.
3. Close the HP Paper Feed Cleaning Kit software on the computer.
4. Load plain paper in the printer paper tray.
5. Press the Power button to turn the printer off.
6. Press the Power button to turn the printer on.
7. Try printing again. If the printer still does not pick up paper or if a paper jam occurs again, service the printer.

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Try using the HP Print Diagnostic Utility in Windows - HP Customer Care (United States - English).

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I'm Sorry to say that PSC 1610 has no fax feature

P-Print
S-Scan
C-Copy

Regards
Riztech

SolutionFollow the steps below to resolve the issue. Step one: Wait for the current task to complete

1. This message appears while the unit performs a task. If a task was aborted while in progress, this message will remain on the display.
2. Press Cancel or Stop to clear the message.
3. If the error does not go away, proceed to the next step.

Step two: Reset the unit

1. While the unit is on, remove the power cord from the rear of the unit AND the wall outlet.
2. After one minute, reconnect the power cord to the wall outlet and the unit.
3. If the unit does not turn on, press the On button.
4. If the error does not go away, proceed to the next step
   If this doesn´t work, release all cartridges, and turn on. After that put the cartridge on the printer one by one. Regards.

I believe you have to press and hold the power button on these machines.. If this does not work, I would replace it.

1. Click the Start icon, click Control Panel, click Printers and faxes folder.
2. Right Click on the printer icon and Select Properties.
3. In Ports tab of the properties window, check the box beside "Enable bi-directional support".
4. Click OK to confirm the changes.

I have discovered how to perform a full reset of the HP PSC 1610, which clears all the internal memory, thereby fixing the "remove and check right cartridge" problem.
To perform a full reset of the HP PSC 1610:
1. Unplug the power cord.
2. Press and hold the OK and CANCEL buttons on the front panel keypad.
3. While still holding the buttons, plug the power cord back in. Continue to hold the buttons for two seconds, and then release them.
4. After a few seconds, the screen will display the message “Deriv Clear” confirming that the reset is done.



I have discovered that the HP PSC 1610 all-in-one printer has a hidden diagnostic mode, which lets you do several interesting things.

To enter the hidden diagnostic mode of the HP PSC 1610: 
1. tap both arrow keys simultaneously.
2. tap the left arrow key.
3. tap the OK key.
4. At this point, you have a choice to make. If you want to enter the "Service" menu, tap the left arrow key. If, on the other hand, you want to get into the "Underware" menu, tap the right arrow key.

There is a menu option in the "Underware" menu called "printer-mech button tap", from which you can initiate any of HP's "tap tests," so called because, on the early HP printers whose onboard user interface was limited to two physical buttons, you would tell the printer which diagnostic test you wanted it to perform by holding down one of the buttons while tapping the other button a certain number of times. In the HP literature, the various diagnostic tests that the printer can do are named according to the number of button taps required to initiate the test. Hence, HP might refer to "tap test #6", "tap test #9", and so forth.
I am not sure what all of the various tap tests do, but I would imagine there is probably a tap test that resets the internal counter responsible for making the printer reject the cartridges.

To print a Configuration page from the printer, press
and hold the Go button for 5 seconds

The following error message appears on the LCD panel on top of the printer after you insert a cartridge: Press enter to align cartridges . You press Enter , but the error message does not go away. The printer will not print. Solution To bypass the cartridge alignment, do the following:

1. Press and hold the Setup button.
2. Press the Options button. The printer should be ready to print.

If the print quality is unacceptable after bypassing alignment, follow the steps below until the error is corrected.