DeskJet F4280 flashing Orange and "E" on the screen. refuses to print

I have a HP DeskJet F4280 all-in-one printer.  It worked well for several years.  Today I went to print something and the printer did not respond at all.  I have printed many times before from this computer and it has always worked well.  There are several computers in my home using this printer, running under Windows 7 64-bit and Ubuntu Linux and all have historically worked well.

On the control panel of the printer, there is a light under the ink level for the black cartridge blinking orange.  In addition, there are an 'E' in the display number (photo below).  Read the support forums, I managed to get it printed some kind of test page with these listed errors:

  • 1 pen in chute 1 is of unsupported type
  • 1 pen in chute 1 has put illegal region
  • 1 pen in chute 1 has bad locking bits

I've attached a scan of this full page below.

The ink cartridge is a genuine cartridge HP 60 XL.  The cartridge was filled once at a mall location "ink."  It works very well since being filled, until today.  I managed to print a page of a print job that I've put on hold and it looked very nice.  So there is definitely nothing wrong with the cartridge.

I tried to replace the black cartridge with an old empty cartridge I had lying around the House.  This corrected the error reported on the control panel of the printer.  Since the cartridge is empty, when he tried to print something from that page came still Virgin, but at least the orange light stopped flashing.  When I put the problem cartridge in the printer started pointed out the error once again, with the amber light flashes and the "E" on the screen.

How can I fix my printer to accept this black cartridge?  I don't want much out and blow $60 on a new cartridge when the one I have is quite good.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Hi denversc and natsemioldskul.

The blinking light under the black ink indicator means it has not detected the ink cartridge. That means the cartridge is empty or gone bad. The 'E' error means that the printer detects something wrong with one of the cartridges.

http://goo.GL/2lQQS

In the case of denversc, as put in a black cartridge empty old deleted the 'E' error, the problem is with the cartridge. With the help of a charged cartridge may or may not have caused the problem. See the following link for more information on this topic:

http://goo.GL/vJhvk

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