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Anonymous Posted on Mar 21, 2008

Printer won't recognize color cartridge

The printer seemed to run out of color ink, although there was no low ink warning. Refilled the cartridge, nothing. Installed new 27 cartridge, brougt down menu on installation page, highliged 27, yes it's new, went to test page but still woulde'nt print color. Tried again, but still had to hit 27 again because it was blank, sad no, it's old, so did over to it's new. It does'nt se to recognize the cartridge. Cleaned an followed all troubleshooting, still, nothing.

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  • hungry owl Mar 24, 2008

    my x1270 shows the color full, but still won't print in color. I have cleaned all points, installed and reinstalled the new 27 cartridge about 10 times. What else can I try?? Thanks

  • angelthreads Apr 16, 2008

    We reinstalled our printer but still our printer will not print the color line of the test page or anywhere else for that matter. Only the black and white lines. We have a new color and b/w cart. and they are installed correctly. They even show up as full. What is up?

  • Keith Roop
    Keith Roop Apr 17, 2008

    reinstalled software and all test still get all yellow and blue printout

  • WKirch Apr 19, 2008

    Put new black and color cartridge in. Now I can't get anything to print. I tried all the options like 16/17 and 26/27 and "old" or "new". Still nothing. It won't print anything now and this is only the first time I replaced cartridges. Machine is like brand new. Can you only run one cartridge through this print and then dispose of the entire printer?

  • sweetdrms18 Jan 30, 2009

    Lexmark X1240 doesn't show low color ink, but still won't print color.

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