I got this printer from a friend. He said he got it brand new long time ago and never used it. I hooked it up to my Apple macbook air that has mountain lion on it and automatically the drivers were installed. But, whatever page I print (especially PDF files), they are printed partially. I can't find any logic behind it: it's not the different font colors that are missed, or things that are outside margin or anything like that. Just some sections will not print! If I try the same file from windows, again it misses some sections, but not same ones as it misses on Mac. I went through all settings, checked cartridges, made sure my software is up to date, went through cartridge cleaning that comes with HP Printer Utility. Nothing helped! It's a mystery to me why it misses some parts of the page. Any ideas?
You can check the HP 74/75 ink cartridge's electrical health by running the Tap 41 diagnostics check...refer to D4200 printer procedure at the following Inkjet411 support page:
http://inkjet411.retailinkjet.com/?page_id=792
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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 (office depot) 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.
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Hi, the problem seems with the logic board inside the printer, are you in a position to open the printer and try some stunts, that is only if you have done it earlier.. let me know??
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Probably bad, there's actually no way to check ink levels.
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replace the cariridge because when you refill the sensor gets triggered and the cartride is unusable.
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Try this :
Take out the power cable from the back of the printer keep on tapping the power button for 30 secs ; then plug it back.
Take out the catridges clean them with a Lint free cloth (copper contacts); also clean the catridge slot of the printer; put in back the catridges ;
Unplug the power cable from the back of the printer; press and hol down the (#) and the (6) button simultaneously with one hand and with the other hand put in back the power cable; and then release the (#) and (6) button;
It will perform a reset on the printer
IF still then it doesn't work then the catridge slot's copper contacts has gone bad and need to replace
Regards
Soumajit
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