HP OfficeJet K80 All-In-One InkJet Printer Logo
Dan Sainovich Posted on Jun 05, 2007
Answered by a Fixya Expert

Trustworthy Expert Solutions

At Fixya.com, our trusted experts are meticulously vetted and possess extensive experience in their respective fields. Backed by a community of knowledgeable professionals, our platform ensures that the solutions provided are thoroughly researched and validated.

View Our Top Experts

Alignment cartridge Hello, My printer keeps on giving message and job: Press Enter to Align cartridges... I have done this several times and it keeps repeating itself. I have powered off and on. Removed cartridges and replaced them. I have hit the cancel button to cancel the page alignment, this also do no good. All I want to do is get past the align cartridges que. Thank you Saino

  • 6 more comments 
  • pstriker Nov 06, 2007

    replaced black cartridge and display keeps saying...

    "press enter to align cartridges"

    keep pressing enter and get printout, but still the same message appears



    have been informed to clean a transparent tape, where is this tape?

  • Anonymous Nov 07, 2007

    "Remove and check black cartridge....

    I have replaced with Office Depot black cartridge #45 when first getting the above message time and again. Replace with HP45 thinking it was fault of ink cartridge, but still getting same message and cannot clear it from my printer window.

  • Anonymous Dec 22, 2007

    where do I find the internal transparent tape to clean?

  • romero1 Feb 21, 2008

    Oh , My printer keeps on giving message and job:
    Press Enter to Align cartridges...
    I have done this several times...and the cartridges never aligned, What should I do?

  • Anonymous Apr 18, 2008

    message keeps reading align cartridges

    page prints blank

  • Anonymous Apr 27, 2008

    My scanner won't scan

  • Anonymous Jun 03, 2008

    cartridge not alignment

  • sneedy63 Mar 18, 2009

    paper mismatch. Replace transparency with plain paper.

×

2 Answers

Anonymous

Level 1:

An expert who has achieved level 1.

Hot-Shot:

An expert who has answered 20 questions.

Corporal:

An expert that has over 10 points.

Mayor:

An expert whose answer got voted for 2 times.

  • Contributor 62 Answers
  • Posted on Jun 10, 2007
Anonymous
Contributor
Level 1:

An expert who has achieved level 1.

Hot-Shot:

An expert who has answered 20 questions.

Corporal:

An expert that has over 10 points.

Mayor:

An expert whose answer got voted for 2 times.

Joined: Apr 22, 2007
Answers
62
Questions
0
Helped
23114
Points
77

This is an internal problem in the printer, there is a transparent tape in the printer and it needs cleaning or replaced

Orn Wilson

Level 2:

An expert who has achieved level 2 by getting 100 points

MVP:

An expert that got 5 achievements.

Governor:

An expert whose answer got voted for 20 times.

Scholar:

An expert who has written 20 answers of more than 400 characters.

  • Expert 104 Answers
  • Posted on May 22, 2008
Orn Wilson
Expert
Level 2:

An expert who has achieved level 2 by getting 100 points

MVP:

An expert that got 5 achievements.

Governor:

An expert whose answer got voted for 20 times.

Scholar:

An expert who has written 20 answers of more than 400 characters.

Joined: May 21, 2008
Answers
104
Questions
0
Helped
73820
Points
203

Here's the deal with the cartridge alignment page....the machine will spit out a series of black lines mixed with yellow ink and at the beginning of each of these lines is a "Green" check mark. The carriage moves back and forth over these lines and green check marks and reads them by use of what is called a "spot sensor" that resides on the right side of the carriage assembly. This is usually noticed by the blue ray of light that shines out of it. So if you are getting an alignment failure one of two things is happening....1)You've have got a bad cartridge (usually the color) and it is not laying down the right colors, specifically the green check mark or 2)You've got a bad spot sensor...even though it may still be shining the blue light, the sensor board can't process the information. Its an easy fix either way.

Inkworks

Ad

Add Your Answer

×

Uploading: 0%

my-video-file.mp4

Complete. Click "Add" to insert your video. Add

×

Loading...
Loading...

391 views

Ask a Question

Usually answered in minutes!

Top HP Office Equipment & Supplies Experts

Cindy Wells

Level 3 Expert

6718 Answers

Grand Canyon Tech
Grand Canyon Tech

Level 3 Expert

3867 Answers

George Mclaughlin

Level 2 Expert

373 Answers

Are you a HP Office Equipment and Supply Expert? Answer questions, earn points and help others

Answer questions

Manuals & User Guides

Loading...