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Posted on Nov 18, 2008

Dell A960 printing blank pages

Printer was working fine until I placed replaced both black and color cartridges. Worked fine for awhile but then started getting error message that there was a cartridge error and that I had to remove and replace cartridges. I did as asked and it was fine for awhile but now I get blank pages when I go to print. I followed multiple troubleshooting tips from Dell, cleaned cartridges, cleaned maintenance bar, unplugged all connections and reconnected. When I go to print from the Maintenance page I still get a blank page printed. I even tried printing from a Word Document and got a blank page. What is the problem? Please help.

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  • marymaryjs Nov 25, 2008

    my printer was working fine. However, even though I still have ink it is now printing blank pages.

  • ladyathegate Nov 30, 2008

    My A960 is printing extremely light and the print is garbled/or the lines are merged together. This is with both the black and color ink, which are Dell and not empty.

  • iracethewind Dec 05, 2008

    I have the same problem, the printer just stopped printing text altogether. It will print images, and both cartridges are full, I reinstalled the driver, but nothing! Grrr!

  • Anonymous Mar 26, 2009

    My Dell A960 will print a test page, but will not print Word documents or a fax. It's just printing blank pages.

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I just sprayed windex on bottom of cartridge several times and wiped with paper towel until dark streak of black appeared. Then I dried off cartridge and replaced. It works now. Must have been clogged.

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