Question about Brother MFC 420CN All-In-One InkJet Printer

Cartridge not recognized

One by one, each color has been coming up close to empty, and then need to replace. The yellow said close to empty for a long time, so I went ahead and replaced it, however the read out never asked "did you replace yellow?" and it continues to say yellow is close to empty. I ran the cleaner a few times to see if that would fix it. Then today, it said the yellow ran out, so I opened the machine and reinstalled the yellow. Then the read out showed black is close to empty, so I reinstalled it (because it's not close to empty) and now the read out shows "No Cartridge" and is totally disabled. Any ideas?

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Try to put hot water in each cartridge install, not so hot but normal hot that can disolve hard liquid component. When an inks happens not used more that 3 months it will become hard that might be possible the printer would not able to get the specific color because the cartridge getting problem.

****NOTE****

Make it sure the bottom part of the cartridge will not filled hot water where you can see the circuit outside, so make it sure only the sides of the cartridge filled with hot water.

Then make it sure after filling water you need to use dry cloth to make it dry before putting back again to your printer head.

Hope this will be helpful.

Posted on Nov 29, 2007

Anonymous Nov 29, 2007

Please let me know if you run the same problem.

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