HP DeskJet 460 - lights flashing, won't print

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• Fill the cartridges of ink on deskjet 9800. Red light flashing, won't print. Always worked before.

  Your Question: I haven't found new, original HP cartridges for my deskjet 9800 in any store. I so did my ink on deskjet 9800 as I did with success several times in the past. Two red lights keep flashing. It won't print. [Someone suggested that I need a new print head?] What should do? thanx

  The coding strip only should be cleaned if there is a problem - it is very fragile and can be damaged, making the printer inoperable.  There is a post here that describes how do to clean the MICR band, but respect the warnings and don't do it unless necessary.  There is also a post here that shows how to solve one of the problems mishandling can cause.  Do not clean the Strip unless necessary.

  The coding is the band one located just behind the stem of transport semi-claire. It aims to help the print cartridge faithfully keep track of its position as it moves along the stem of transport. Sometimes dust, ink or oil can accumulate on this strip and cause the following problems:

  • Prints "stairs" to the bottom of the left margin of the self-test page.
  • The margins left or right of the self-test are not properly placed.
  • Ink cartridges carriage slams on the left side of the printer.
  • Automatic test double-print or obscured shows the letters.
  • Defects to flow the length of a printed page (portrait orientation), or on the whole page (landscape orientation).
  • Printing stops and the lights of the Control Panel on the printer indicate an error.
  • Gaps appear in the printed text or images.
  • Slow printing

  CAUTION:

  Do not clean the strip of coding for the following symptoms: media pick questions, paper jam tilt, ink cartridge, missing points or rejection white stripes with printing and smeared or streaked black ink.

   

• Why is my printer light flashing and not printing

  Hewlett packard deskjet 3915

  Flashing power light HP Deskjet 3915

• The yellow light flashes on the printer.

  Original title: Printer problems

  My printer print 1 page very well then the printer sounded like he wanted to do more printing, even though I only asked for 1. Now, the lite flashes yellow. I checked this: no paper jam. I cancelled all print jobs, just in case, although none showed. I disabled all the equipment, restarted and yellow button continues to Flash. The ink cartridge is new. I asked Windows Help for printer problems, none is shown. I asked Microsoft to help you, no answer. Any help is greatly appreciated. Just know that I'm not a cranky then please use the current language if you answer. Thank you. Jean

  Hi John,.

  Thanks for choosing Microsoft Community!

  You have reached the right forum. Let us work as a team and try to solve this problem.

  If I understand correctly, you have problems with the printer.

  Please answer these questions to better understand the issue:

  1. What is the brand and model of the printer?

  2 have you referred to the manual that came with the printer?

  3. have you tried to contact the manufacturer of the printer?

  If the printer has an orange light flashing, this may mean that the printer has an internal condition 'fault' which is found only in the printer itself.

  I suggest you contact the manufacturer of the printer for more help.

  Hope the helps of information. Don't answer if you need assistance, we will be happy to help you.

• Light flashing on the printer

  Hello

  I have problem with flashing light on my printer (hp Deskjet D1560).

  I tried:

  1. Unplug the USB
  2. Unplug the power
  3. Then reconnected power and USB.

  Did not work. Always blink and I can't print.

  I would be gratefull for any help to fix this.

  Best regards, Jadwiga

  See the documentation that came with the printer or check HP help and Support section on their Web site for more details on what the blinking light means and how to solve your problem.

• HP Officejet 6500 E709n Console lights flashing & is not printing

  HP Officejet 6500 E709n stopped working yesterday and almost all of the lights on the console keep flashing continuously.  I get a message on the display to turn off, then turn it on but it still does the same once I do this.

  I have sought and found how to use # and 3 keys for a partial resets when you plug back in the power supply, but after I did it is still the same as before?

  I unplugged the power supply and all the rest and sit all night and this morning it did the same thing.

  Is it possible to do a complete reset instead of a part of the console?

  Thank you

  Ken

  OK tried to edit the post previous to add to this, but has not see a button "Edit"?

  So I got the printer Open as when you change cartredges and noticed that the print heads has not moved at the Center as usual?  Tried moving the print head with my hand and he moved only about 1/4 "back and all of a sudden the print head moved to the center that he assumed?  Closed the top and crossed a calibration and then printed that and now it works again.  Go figure!

  I guess that's a mechanical and electrical/electronic problem rather than something.  I looked and didn't see anything wrong with gears and stuff on top so it can be one problem somewhere else.

  Ennywho, I will continue to use it like that too long it will work.

  Thank you

• HP Deskjet F4140 light flashing black/Photo

  
  

  Hi Rn; Thanks for the link. Unfortunately my flashing problem was not listed, but this whole thing happened when I tried to print colors with an old color cartridge.  When I jumped into the NEB new wala! If all goes well!

• OfficeJet j6480 flashing, won't print, will not be closed

  OfficeJet J6480 is stuck on the stop, but it never does. If I hold the power button down a notice comes up saying "power save mode: completely stop." I can't turn it off, and the statement said never disconnect if the unit is plugged. I removed from the list of printers and reinstalled. Manual does not recognize problem. The printer says window: network host "HP419624local is busy, try again in 20 seconds... printer busy.

  HP customer service does not care and does not respond. Either I have to solve the problem or throw old printer for five months. Anyone can save him for me?

  Janet,

  First of all, the printer is not designed to be turned on and off remotely.

  Secondly, if you would like to try an experiment for me, we can get to the bottom of this:

  Stop all your computers before you try to stop the printer using the power button.

• HP Deskjet 3050 a J611 won't print envolops

  I've never seen a doing the right thing. I changed to another HP printer because I hoped that it would print envolopes but they never do.

  Nobody has a clue, it's not for lack of HPs like HP printers work with other softwar like Open Office. It works better and it's free. I used another software to print envelopes. Œuvres of HP but MsWord is an abortion by a company that goes out of business.

• DeskJet 2540: Change cartridge then won't print

  Print and photocopy OK. Lights began to blink. Ink ran out. Change cartridges. 300 HP. Manual says would print a page automatically. Does not have. Lights continue to Flash. Not photocopy - press the button, lights flash, nothing else. (Off several times). Try to print via WiFi, says printer problem.

  What should do?

  Hi @evennewerbie,

  Welcome to the HP Forums!

  I see that you can not print with your HP Deskjet 2540, and the lights are flashing on the printer. I'm happy to help you!

  I recommend you to go through this guide, lights flashing on HP Deskjet 2540 and printers all-in-one Deskjet Ink Advantage 2545and proceed to question that matches best the lights flashing on the printer.

  I hope this guide is useful!

• HP 6940 power, resume, right cartridge lights flashing continuously

  I found my 6940 HP with power, which takes up and fires right cartridge like crazy. I did everything that I could Google to try to resolve the problem, several times in the course:

  • Power cycle, including remove the power cable from the plug
  • factory reset (report, press Cancel x 3
  • Remove/replace cartridges
  • move the rear cart & more
  • start without installed black cartridge
  • start without installed color cartridge
  • start without any cartridges installed
  • Check and check for paper jams (he was never that I can tell)

  In each case, my method was.

  • Remove the power plug from the back, wait 15 seconds to replace.
  • Try something from the above list

  In each case, the printer works fine for a few minutes. It's the ping requests, it is accessible via the integrated web page and a test page can be the printer. In each case, after a few minutes, the lights flash, and the printer is no longer pings or via the web page. When the lid is raised, the bar that prevents the cartridges come off, is stuck in the up position (preventing removal).

  I'm afraid that the thing bought the farm, but I've always been happy with it and will not replace it (all they seem to do today are these monstrosities multi-function) if there's a chance someone knows something that can fix.

  Darryl Hello,

  I noticed your post about your problem with your Deskjet 6940 showing you lights flashing lights and working for a few minutes at a time before the return of the cycle. I want to help you as best I can. I see that you already have some troubleshooting.

  I have studied this issue and have found some documents of troubleshooting I recommend search and try anything you have not yet tried.

  Flashing lights

  Transport is stuck

  Please see "Solution 2: clean the cartridge contacts.

  I really hope that this help solve you the problem, if there is anything else I can help with that feel free to respond!

  Kind regards

• HP Envy 5540: blue light flashing

  the printer that is connected directly to the laptop. Works very well. Now, all of a sudden, blue light flashing and will print still but at a snail's pace. What's wrong? Nothing has changed. Paper in the tray.

  Hello @sleuther,

  Thank you for your response.

  I understand that the laptop is connected to the wireless network. It is quite well turn off the wireless feature. Follow the steps and check them out below:

  • In the printer control panel, press on icon (Wireless). Wireless summary appears.
  • Touch icon (settings) and then touch wireless settings.
  • In the wireless settings screen, select "Disabled" for the wireless option.

  Let me know if it helps.

• 1102w won't print via USB

  We have a 1102w currently used via USB.  It works perfectly with the macbook from my wife and my computer laptop windows 7.

  I have a macbook pro with the OSC v 10.9.5 and went through the routine to add printer, but when I print I can see that the document will print to the queue, the print queue empties but the printer does not print the document, the blue light flashes but no printing... any help in getting this problem would be greatly appreciated.

  Hi @richardskelt ,

  I see by your post that you can't print via a USB connection on the computer of 10.9, but you can print on the Macbook and the Windows 7 laptop. I will do my best to help you with this problem.

  Connect the printer directly to the Mac USB cable and run the updates Apple to install the printer.

  Verify that the correct driver for the printer name is listed.

  Click on the Apple menu, click System Preferences. Click on Printers & Scanners, highlight the name of the printer on the left side and right side of the screen it should show the name of the printer. (P1102w)

  If the full name of the printer is not correctly, delete and add the printer name back from the list. Click on the sign - to remove the driver and then click on the + sign to add the driver might have to drop-down list to select the name of the printer to add a click.

  

  

  Test the printer.

  If you're still having problems, follow these steps:

  Fix permissions of the drive on the Mac:

  Close all applications.

  In the Apple menu, click OK, click Applications, and then click utilities.

  Double-click disk utility.

  Highlight your hard drive / partition on the left.

  Click on check and then repair disk permissions.

  Restart the computer...

  Reset the printing system:

  Note: This will remove all printers in the print and Fax/Scan, any printer deleted can be re-added later by clicking the sign plus (+) symbol.

  Click the Apple icon, and then click System Preferences.

  Click on Printers & Scanners.

  Make a right click (or Ctrl + click) in the left white side panel, and then click Reset printing system.

  Click OK to confirm the reset.

  Type the name and the correct password.

  Click OK to reset the printing system.

  Then click on the + sign to add the driver, you may need to click the drop down menu to select the name of the printer, and then click the Add button.

  Test the printer again.

  If you need help, let me know.

  Good day!
  Thank you.

• Cartridges lights flash on full cartridges

  My officejet pro K8600dn shows lights flashing on the printer cartridges, while the cartridges are full. Putting the printer turned off and didn't help. When I do a very strong push on the cartridges, that the lamps are going out and I can print. Then the lights flashing again. By the way: I only use original HP cartridges.  My desktop computer HP Pavilion and OS Windows 7 pro 64 x, has already the latest version of the software and the driver, but it does not solve the problem.

  Using authentic HP inks? I would clean the contacts on the cartridges to make sure the accumulation of ink was not causing and delivered with the printer being able to read that the cartridges are inserted correctly. If after manual cleaning, you still have a problem, I would like to do a hard reset of the printer. A hard reset will attempt to restore the printer to a known working condition and no user parameters are lost with a hard reset. First of all, start by cleaning, I know the model presented is not the same, but the cleaning cartridge is what one wants to follow.  To do this:

  1. Open the cartridge door.

• power light flashing hp deskjet 3940, & do not print anything

  I have windows XP(SP3) on my laptop and HP printer Deskjet 3940. The printer worked fine until now. Now the power light blinks on the printer. There is NO paper jam.
  I uninstalled and reinstalled the driver from HP website. The printer showed ready in the control panel,but as soon as i try to print a document it shows offline and the power light starts blinking. I have cleared documents from the print queue.
  I have tried using different USB ports but no success.
  I have ensured that 'use printer offline" is unchecked.
  I also downloaded and ran HP Print and Scan doctor. It says everything is fine and asked me to print a test page, but nothing happened when I tried to print. Print HP EXPERTS, Please Help! Thank you!
  

  Hi HPuserSJ,

  I just wanted to check to see if the documents of resolution of problems you have been useful.