I am a very infrequent printer user. Our Epson Stylus 500 was great when new. I reckon the print head is clogged up and would appreciate a way to unblock it. We have a Lexmark Z55 as well. First I was told that the refill inks have ruined the cartridges and the print heads. I have since put in Lexmark's own ink cartridges and it still doesn't print. Please help. Lexmark All-in-One prints a blank page even though it shows ink cartridges have more than 3/4 ink.
Take out the Cartridge & get a new one if the problem persists then get the printer software reinstalled & if still it is not printing then clean up the cartridge head with cotton swabs dipped in hot water!
This should clean the head & black will be on paper
DO THIS AS FINAL REFUGE
If still its not working then there's some problem in the copper contact surface in the printer on the cradle so get a new Printer.
SOURCE: Printer doesn't print even with new ink cartridges.
turn the printer i turned on and Press the cleaning button ,. Cleaning takes about two minutes, the printer makes some noise when it finishes you run a nozzle check for print quality and reset the cleaning cycle.
load paper . go to the printer menu as follows: click Control Panel, and then double-click Printers. Select the Epson printer if have more than one printer is installed. Click File, click Properties, click the Utility tab, then click the Nozzle Check icon.
The printer will print a Nozzle Check pattern in black, and in cyan, magenta, and yellow. Each staggered horizontal and straight vertical line should be complete, with no gaps in the dot pattern. If any dots are missing, clean the head again.
If your software is different, and does not have these options, you can do it this way:
1. Same as above.
2. Same as above.
Turn off printer and computer. Disconnect interface cable from printer. Load paper. Hold down the load/eject button and press the power button to turn on the printer. Release both buttons.
3 Same as above.
4 Turn off printer and reconnect the interface
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Both colour and black ink Lexmark cartritridges purchased but black ink does not print. When black ink cartridge removed, print head appears to show black ink on it. Tried to clean head but it still doesn't work. Any advise? be greatful for any as ink cost me a fortune!! Thank you.
I put new cartridges in my XP200 but it imprinting blank pages. I cleaned the printer heads already. What else can I do?
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