HP B210a Photosmart: not black not printing

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• HP Photosmart Plus B210a does not print Magenta

  Hello

  I have already posted in these forums about this, but no answers seem to solve my problem.

  Basically, my Photosmart B210 (who bought last October) does not Magenta print. I went through several cartrides real both HP and brand own PC World and Magenta print never to pages. The estimated ink levels show the Magenta levels accordingly well (full when it is new, empty when used etc.).

  I would like to know what steps I can take to resolve this problem, in addition to buying new cartridges (again!) and turn again and restore to factory settings - that did not work.

  Thanks for your help!

  When the unit will not print a single or multiple color, it is labeled as a print quality problem.

  You can find the steps to solve a problem of printing quality for B210a here.

  I hope this helps!

• Photosmart Plus B210a will not print on the Windows XP computer, but works on the Windows 7 computer

  I just got a Photosmart Plus B210a printer. I was able to install it using the wireless for my Dell Dimension 3000 3 GHz computer with Windows XP 32-bit SP3. He will answer analysis, but it will NOT print, it doesn't matter what I do. I have a Netgear wireless router. I tried the Dell connected directly to the router using a USB of Netgear WG111v3 USB adapter and cable. No impression whatever the configuration.

  On the other hand, I was able to make the printer work with an Athlon II X 4 630 with Windows 7 Professional 64 bit AMD machine. Everything works independently to know if the machine is connected directly to the router Netgear or using the above USB adapter.

  How can I make work B210a with my Dell with Windows XP? Is this a problem XP because Windows 7 has worked perfectly, but Windows XP would only scan.

  Subsequently, I deleted all initially loaded B201a software. At the printer detects the network, then reloaded the software from the CD. The printer then worked fine. What a relief. Perhaps the problem I had previously was linked to my trying to use the USB port when the printer originally did not work.

• Just bought a B210a Photosmart more impossible to print a picture black and white, green to come.

  Just bought a B210a Photosmart more cannot print a picture black & white, green to come.

  This seems to indicate that your magenta ink is not printing correctly.  Try it troubleshooting steps described in this page.

• B210a will not print text

  Since the purchase of this printer less than a year ago, I had several printing issues.  The original gave me such an adjustment, I brought back to the place of purchase after a few days for a replacement.  Initially, the replacement seems to work fine (I got it networked with my home network).  After a few months, it wouldn't scan.  I spent many hours on the phone with support through mutiple and finally freezing procedures and reinstall everything.  Once all was said and done, it seems to work fine... for a while.

  Then he started giving me intermittent problems with printing.  Sometimes, when I went to print, I would get the "eprint" message not available  If I cancelled and let the printer sit awhile, it would print later.  I started to get the message so often, I opted to use the usb connection and that seemed to work... for a while.  Finally I could print at all, the message of "eprint" unavailable each time.

  In the last days of work on my current problem, I used the print and scan doctor, made multiple adjustments, uninstalled/reinstalled it, nothing is.  The doctor print and scan says it all is fine, but after this last problem (do not print text), pages of printed report in print and scan doctor show only black outline boxes, solid colored boxes and boxes of blue outline, all very vibrant prints, but no text at all.  I tried to print a text-only document and the printer responds but does not print anything.  He continues to analyse very well from my computer and via the LCD screen.  I continue to use the USB only, because of all the problems of network with this printer.

  I don't consider myself like a fool technology, and I know that I'm not an expert by any means.  I had years of experience using several brands of the technology to accomplish my own ends, but I am at my wits end with this printer.  I have never reached this level of frustration before and have always been able to get the issues resolved.  Not the case with this one.  Someone at - it give me advice for me before I got with this printer and return to my previous printer brand?

  Although it may seem that the pritner prints in black it is actually not - in the test page, the boxes around the area of ink levels are printed with a combination of color inks to make black.  Please follow the procedure described in my previous post.

  You can check that the black is not printing by printing a test page to as the Six Solution, you will see that documents to be reproduced in black are empty.

• Ho B210a photosmart horizontal lines color printing

  How to get rid of the horizontal color printing lines, even though I replaced the cartridges.

  Run 'cleaning print head' or 'print the State of quality' in the Tools menu of the printer.

• HP Photosmart Plus B210A black ink cartridge will not print

  I have an HP B210A Photosmart printer. Windows 8 operating system.  Recently, I replaced all ink cartridges, Black XL.

  Now the black does not print.  The printer recognizes the ink is there but not print during a test, as the other three colors.  I went back to store & exchanged the cartridge for me even if I had bought all four colors together.  Installed the new one and it still does not work.  Has gone through the process of the online help where they want me to buy an another print head, but that doesn't make sense to me.  The products are HP, ink # 564.

  I wouldn't get rid of this product because of it.  Any help would be appreciated.

  Of course, out of warranty.

  Hi PaulieG,

  I understand that you have a Photosmart B210a printer that is printing is no longer black. I'm sorry to hear you had to deal with this, but I will certainly do my best to help you with this problem.

  I recommend you all first that you have a look at this print quality paper to ensure that no steps have been omitted in this document. You can also try the steps outlined in this document 'Print head problem' or "Print head seems to be missing or corrupt" Message appears on the computer to clean your print head manually. Then, in a last effort, if these steps do not help, you can also try a suggestion from Bob_Headrick to soak your printhead.

  Hope this helps, have a nice day!

• Photosmart all-in-One b210a: Black is not printing

  Hello world
  I have a problem with my printer, a Photosmart all-in-One b210a, connected wireless to my network. The problem occurs when printing: it seems that the printer doesn't print anything that uses the color black or black color itself.
  I tried to clean the print head and it only prints the other colors (one line). I tried also to change the ink cartridge, but nothing to do; I tried to align the cartridges aaaand it is said that the alignment is not (it only printed the blue lines) and everything in the Tools menu, but not reset the configuration.

  I also tried to print 10 Windows and OS X (a color and a black and white document). The same result at a time when black and white document printing: not black.

  Any ideas? Thank you.

  Alexander.

  Hi @AlexandrCerutti,

  Welcome to the Forums of HP Support!

  I understand you are having print quality problems on your HP Photosmart Wireless e-All-in-one printer - B210a

  Printer. I would be glad to help and don't forget to come back to this thread and check "Accept as Solution", if I have successfully helped solve you the problem. If you want to say 'Thank you' to my effort to help, click on the "thumbs up" to give me a Kudos.

  Looks like you did most of the resolution of the problems already. The print head is probably clogged or will need to be replaced.

  NOTE: I would be cleaning several times to try to resolve the problem with the print head.

  Please confirm that you have tried the steps in this guide: HP Photosmart Plus B210 printer - color or black ink printing not.

  If the problem persists, the print head should be cleaned.

  Check the status of print head warranty:
  If you have a faulty cartridge or print head, it might be under warranty. To check the warranty on your ink supplies, go to tohp.com/go/learnaboutsupplies, select your country/region, and then review the information of limited warranty for your supplies.

  Printhead replacement games are available from HP customer or authorized service providers assistance.
  ATTENTION: Wait until you have a new available print head Assembly before you remove the ink cartridges. Do not leave the ink cartridges out of the printer longer than 30 minutes. Can result in damage to the printer and ink cartridges.

  If the printer is out of warranty, you can try the procedure in the video below. Please use at your own discretion.

  Video: Manually clean the print head on the HP Officejet 6500 printer

• black and will not print on hp Photosmart Plus B210a of Window Vista model

  black and will not print on hp Photosmart Plus B210a of model

  The post here could help solve the problem.  Be sure to check the vents.

• New Photosmart 5520 will not print in black

  I have a new HP Photosmart 5520 printer all-in-one.  Black ink ran out so I replaced it with a previously used ink cartridge which is of the same type # 564 but a XL version.  This cartridge has been barely used.  Now, I just can't get anything to print in black.  It will print in color, but not black.  I tried to turn off the printer.  I put the cartridge in my printer and it worked fine.  What should I do?

  edgarlogcabin wrote:
  

  my printer hp 5520 will not print black

  The in the here document troubleshooting steps may help resolve problems with black not not printing on your Photosmart 5520.  Especially make sure to check the events as on the Six Solution.

• HP Photosmart Premium C309g do not print black ink

  Hello

  My HP Photosmart Premium C309g (CD055A) will not print black ink even if the cartridge is full. He's going through the motions of printing but the pages come out blank. It prints colors, they are not as dark as before, so I know that black is not working. I have cleaned the print heads, turned off the printer, unplug the printer, restarted the computer, but nothing works. I get colors on the report of the print quality, but the printer status report comes out blank. I bought a new black ink cartridge (564XL) think the previous one was defective (levels showed a 75% ink) but I still have the same problem. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Thank you.

  Hey,.

  I see you have done some troubleshooting on the issue of the print quality that you are experiencing.  I would make sure you did all the troubleshooting steps available for your research problem in the document following the link.

  Print colors are the colors should not when the C309 Photosmart Premium printing.

  If you have completed all these steps, then I check the status of your printer warranty.  If it is out of warranty, you should consider the solution provided by Bob_Headrick in the thread found here.

  Hope this helps,

  Jason

• Photosmart 7510 - black ink cartridge does not print

  Recently, I replaced the ink cartridges on my Photosmart 7510 C311A. These are all the "genuine HP cartridges ', full.

  Black ink (with the symbol of the Pentagon) does not print, not at all. I ran through the standard troubleshooting steps:

  Cleaning of printheads

  Cleaning of copper contacts

  * Check for a good evacuation

  My colleague in the corridor as the printer even so I borrowed his black ink cartridge and tried: same problem. The printer does not record that there is a problem, but when I run printing tests, where there should be a black ink, there is absolutely none. All other colors print correctly.

  The printer doesn't lack NOT of the printer "align" test however does not offer a suggestion of what to do from there. I've not seen - in test reports - an indiciation of the misalignment.
  
  Suggestions on what to do now?

  I had the same problem. I had replaced the empty cartridge black and suddenly, no ink. Finally, what has worked is
  (1) I removed all the cartridges and cleaned the copper connectors with wet Publix.
  (2) I got a wet paper towel and he pressed repeatedly on the silver circular vent that would be under the black cartridge. I did until no black came. Let it dry.
  (3) I replaced all the cartridges and on the printer. I went to tools/clean the cartridge. I did it a couple of times and he finally printed black ink! I confirmed by going to tools/align, and align the cartridges successfully. He had kept before crashes when the black ink did not work.

• Photosmart 6510 does not print in black

  My photosmart 6510 does not print in black. I presume that it was the cartridge but I replaced the cartridge and it still does not print. I cleaned the print heads and the cartridge ink levels are full.

  The printhead, cleaning of the screen failed touchscreen printer running.  But when I sat down at my computer and used the program utility printing, he did.  I ran an initial print head cleaning my computer and then clicking the button indicating that the print heads were NOT clean.  He then ran a deep cleansing process.  Then I lined up the printheads of the same print utility program.  Now it works!

• Photosmart HP 6520 - black not printing

  I have a printer HP Photosmart 6520, it was working well until recently. A couple of days it color printing black with lines through their departure or much lighter than it should be. The ink level was almost empty, I bought a new set of 564 cartridges staples (genuine HP ink cartridges). After that I put them in the black was always light and got lighter with each printing. I cleaned the heads a few times, but has not made a difference. Finally the black stopped printing altogether.

  I have old ink cartridges, so I put in the dark, thinking that it was not good. Even the old one does not print, so this leads me to believe that the print head is clogged. On this model the head does not come out so I can't follow the posts on cleaning using this method. The printer is out of warranty this HP difficulty is not an option.

  Is there a way to clean the printhead without deleting? What other options can I here?

  @mikelbeck

  As it is a 6520 I would advise calling the HP helpline a call - even if it is out of warranty, as they will probably provide you with a replacement printer

  http://welcome.HP.com/country/us/en/wwcontact_us.html

  Can you please let us know how you get on?

  Thank you

  Ciara

• HP Photosmart B210 using iPad or Windows 7 computer laptop not printing black

  My husband uses this machine almost every day. The other day, he got an indicator he was more black ink and after having changed the cartridge (which we all have two made more successfully during the past two years) black will still not print. He cleaned the printhead and unplugged the unit and plugged in. He tried three different, all cartridges HP, with two of them coming from different packages sold in different shops. (He suspects that a package of three cartridges was defective, after two of them did not work).

  All the tips under "buy a new unit on Black Friday?

  Can't get black print on Photosmart B210. Followed the instructions for the cartridge door of washing in VERY hot water and let soak for 5 minutes. I then cleaned cartridges twice and hey presto it worked perfectly. I was ready to ditch the printer. I would add that I am 83 years old but was able to follow the instructions of a useful post.