The black ink will not print on my canon iP5200. The ink cartridge is full, the printer recognizes that the cartridge is in place and I have done several cleanings and deep cleanings to no avail.
Try removing the cartridge and cleaning the cartridge contacts in the printer with a cotton swab dampened with isopropyl alcohol. When the contacts are dry, lightly scrub them with a white pencil eraser (the red ones are too coarse and may cause more problems), then wipe clean with a dry cotton swab.
If that doesn't help, open up the printer and find the other end of the ribbon cable connected to the print head carrier. There is often some sort of locking clamp on that connector. Unlock it, pull out the ribbon cable and clean the contacts on that end, then reassemble. (The lock may be a sliding sleeve around the cable (it only comes out about a millimeter) or a flip-up plate. If there is nothing like that, the cable is a friction fit and pulls out with a small amount of force. Some very cheap printers use a permanently attached connection).
Explanation: It is possible that there is a second drive voltage to the print heads that isn't connecting, but its failure doesn't prevent normal communications to the cartridge using the logic level voltage.
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All the tape is off, at first I thought possibly the cartridge was out and the printer wasn't acknowleding it, so I bought another, same problem, both of them have plenty of ink. This printer requires 2 black cartridges, the regular black shows up fine on one of those noozle check print-outs but nothing comes out of the larger PGBK cartridge.
Is this a new cartridge with the tape still covering the ink jets? If not, then I'd suspect either a connection problem (not likely, since the printer isn't complaining) or a defect in the cartridge.
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