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• HP Photosmart C6380: print head problem

  I just replaced the ink cartridges in my printer and a message pops up saying (printhead problem remove all the cartridges, then lift gray latch and printhead, and then reinstall the cartridges and print head) I did it a dozen times now, and the message is still there, what should I please

  Hi @PC21,

  Welcome to the Forums of HP Support!

  I understand that you are at the reception and the error about the print head on your printer HP Photosmart C6380. I will definitely do my best to help you.

  I would like to try the steps in this guide, the 'Print head problem' or "print head seems to be missing or corrupt" message for HP Photosmart C6300 all-in-One Printer Series.

  In addition, you can try the solution in this video. Use at your own discretion.

  Videos: 564 HP & HP 920 ink printers of the series - printhead to hot water Flush.

• Photosmart more 209 a: I just want to thank Kosh to his instructions on cleaning the print head on a Photosmart Plus 209 has.

  I just want to thank Kosh (61 115 message) for instructions on cleaning the print head on a Photosmart 209!  I did it, it worked, I can print in black again!

  Thank you, Kosh!

  Hello

  Thank you for using the HP Forums.

  I'm glad to hear that your problem is solved and everything works fine now.

  Want to share your expriences on the cleaning of the print head?

  Thank you.

  Good day!

• 7520 photosmart all in one. How to disable auto clean print head

  I have the HP Photosmart 7520 and I am running Windows 7. How can I disable auto cleaning feature print head?

  Using function Thi my ink so that I am not the same impression.

  Hello

  To answer your question, unfortunately you can not disable this function where the print head will not clean itself. The printer is made to do to keep the printhead to collect ink on the inside contacts.

  I hope that answers your questions.

• All-in-one HP Photosmart C309a "Alignment failed" error message even after cleaning the print heads, etc.

  About 3 weeks ago before making the error msg above, a large black ink blob appeared on my printed piece of paper.  This product for several sheets later, but kept decreasing in amount.  I continued to print & finally all traces of ink have disappeared.  2 days ago I got a msg of error on "load plain white paper. ", but the paper tray was plain white paper in it.  I have removed the paper, straightened and her successor. As a result, the msg "Alignment failed" appeared.  I went through all the steps HP online information on the treatment of the "alignment failed", including the cleaning of the printheads (the right amount of ink was on it), check the vents of cartridge, etc.  My question is: if I have 4 out of colored inks and a new black ink installed, the alignment is being affected by the old cartridges?  A msg on this appeared on the Control Panel, giving the opportunity to proceed with the old cartridges or install new ones, but be careful that it "cannot allow completion of...» "If 'old' were replaced not.  I need to replace these color cartridges or is it probably another problem, which is print head damaged?

  Checked the evacuation & there is no problem, so I tried the informal solution to put the printhead in hot water.  A ran 1 cleaning via / configuration on the printer and finally aligned with success tools.  I waited a while to respond because I wanted to see if the printer should continue to work, and there!

  Thank you very much.  I'm happy that I can keep this printer!

• Photosmart C7180: seams of ink to be cast on the page while performing the C7180 printer heads cleaning

  I maually clean the print head, wound up. Pinter prints but it pours cyan of ink inside the printer.

  OK, well, if it's not a bad print head cartridge may be defective.

• HP Photosmart C4780 let me clean print heads

  I have already contacted HP support and they help me because my warranty expired, instead, they tried to sell me a new printer. Yes, good... It was free, I do not. However, my problem started about two weeks ago. I noticed my lighter colors (i.e. violet, green... etc) were dragged horizontally and I did not quite understand why. I advanced and went into the HP utility and tried to "clean the print heads" and he told me that he cannot complete this process and contact HP support. Instead, I replaced the color and black ink cartridges and tried to print again, still, nothing works. I tried the "clean printhead" option after the doing, and once, he said the process has failed and to contact HP support.

  Seeing how the conversation from HP support went up peachy, I thought that to enter a forum to ask for help. This printer comes for free with my Macbook and I'm sure a lot of people have this printer as well. Maybe can someone help? I would be very happy. I rely on this printer very often to print clear images for my craft. It prints very clear images and I was really pleased with her despite his tantrums spurratic Pépin. I'd be very happy with the help I can get or notice, otherwise, I guess I'll just get a new .

  Thank you kindly,

  Tina

  OK, I'm going to assume that you have the HP software incorrectly installed from the CD supplied with the printer was not intended to 10.6.

  We will uninstall the software by using the "scrubber":

  Go to Applications/Hewlett Packard / click Uninstall HP
  Click on continue
  Highlight your device in the left pane
  Press and hold Ctrl + Alt + Cmd keys on the keyboard at the same time as you click on uninstall< this="" is="" the="" scrubber="" option,="" there="" is="" no="" button="" labeled="">
  There will be a pop up that asks if you are sure you want to uninstall all hp software. (At this point, if you continue, all HP printers you have installed will need to be reinstalled)
  Click on continue and let it finish

  Restart your Mac

  Download and install this: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL907

  Now reset the printing system:

  -Sys Prefs, Print & Fax
  -Right (control) click inside the box that lists your printers and select Reset Printing System.
  WARNING - This will remove ALL your printers!

  Finally, download and install the latest version of the software for your printer from here: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=mp-70896-3&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&os=219&product=3794615&sw_lang=

• Photosmart 210 a: won't print black after installing new print heads

  Hello, I bought and installed a new printhead. It will print color but not black.  They were all new cartridges when the print head went down.  the tools to say all the cartridges are full, please help.

  Hey there @LMACE!

  Thanks for posting on the HP Forums!

  I see that your printer is not printing black once the print head had been replaced.  I would be more then happy to provide you with some suggestions that can make things work again.  The first thing I would suggest is to remove the cartridges and printheads the printer and manually clean the electrical contacts on the printhead and the printer.  It is possible ink sprayed on the copper contacts causing a bad connection, when the new print head has been installed.  If the printhead is not getting a good connection, you may notice messages on the printer error and poor print quality.

  To clean manually the printhead in the B210a Photosmart click here: manually clean the print head

  If please, after back and let me know how it goes!

• I cleaned the print heads, but the printed letters are still coming from pale grey.

  I have a HP Photosmart eStation all in one printer-C510a.  When I print the works are very pale.  I changed the ink cartrideges and cleaned the print heads.  Still very pale.  Any ideas what to do next?

  Hi rab27,.

  Thank you for visiting the Forums from the HP Support! I understand that when you are printing on your HP Photosmart eStation C510, the output is very pale, you attempted to clean the print heads and replace cartridges without success. In order to better assist you, what is the current operating system you use, Windows or Mac and what version?

  I assure you, you are able to make a copy. Can make you a black copy with no problems?

  Now we will make sure that you do not have the printer to print in black and white only. Please follow the steps listed below:

  1. go to your Start Menu

  2. Select devices and printers

  3. right click on your C510 and access print options

  4. click on the advanced option

  5. in the section of the characteristics of the printer, make sure that it is not set to print in grayscale

  Now, let's go and run HP print and Scan Doctor- designed by HP to offer users the features and troubleshooting problem needed to solve many common problems experienced with HP print and scan the products related to Windows computers.

  If you have changed the printing preferences, ran the PSDR HP without success, please continue here: Troubleshooting print quality problems

  I hope this helps, let me know the result.

  Thank you

• Poor print quality. Trying to re-clean print heads and I get the message "printer is busy".

  HP Photosmart 7515 roughly a month.  I had reports of printer including the ink level and Page quality Diagnostic impression that leads me to a printer head cleaning. Always do not print correctly then I pressed the button for a second level print head cleaning and received the message returned as the "printer was busy" and here I am stuck.

  Cartridges solved the problem.

• HP Photosmart C309A: black ink does not print - print head prints correctly to a different printer

  Black does not print. (All HP inks) Replaced the black head - has still not printing.  Tested in an another HPprinter - head works very well.

  Please answer - is there a software, cabling, physical issue with the black only?  (Tried to restart the printer and cleaning already)

  Hi @KenKrieger,

  I understand that you are having problems with the black does not print, you have replaced the printhead to another printer and it prints fine. I want to help you.

  I'm assuming that you used the same cartridges in the print head when you try them in another printer, let me know if you didn't like it.

  Given that the new printhead works in another unit, it seems that it would be a problem with the hardware with the printer and it would need to be repaired.

  I have provided all the documentation for this problem, probably all of the steps have been made previously.

  Documentation to solve the black does not print:

  Printer prints a blank Page or does not print black or color ink for the HP Photosmart Premium C309a...

  This document provides instructions to manually clean the contacts of the cartridge.

  ' Ink cartridge problem - following ink cartridges seems to be missing or corrupt "Message say...

  Here is a document to manually clean the print head.

  'Print head problem' or "Print head seems to be missing or corrupt" Message appears on the computer...

  For more assistance, please contact HP support . Check the model number and the form to receive a file number for faster assistance.

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• How to clean the print heads

  Series HP Photosmart Premium Fax C309 - Windows 7 - no error message - just added a new cartridge of ink - black

  Black feeling of hurt.  Please tell me how I can clean my print heads.

  Thank you!

  Hey JCBauman. You can clean the print head as follows:

  1. If the error message remains on the screen of the Control Panel, press the OK button to erase it.

• C309a error message when you try to clean the print heads

  I use an iMac with Mac OS x 10.6.8 computer and I have the HP Photosmart Premium C309A installed wireless.  I have a problem with printing from the desktop to the C309A and his photo tray, that is, the dialogue continues to tell me the size of the paper or print format is not compatible, even if I used this dozens of times before.  Second, the actual printed photo has been terrible, so I chose the option to clean the print heads.  In the process, the error message appears after 20-30 seconds, saying that he could not completed, then contact HP support.  What can I do to fix this problem of double?

  Hello USAFA68,

  I would say that the head of printing/cartridges manually cleaning.

  You can view a guide on how to do this here:
  http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/c01794817

  This article is intended to replace the printhead completely, I want to ignore for now, but the cleaning steps are available and can help solve this problem for you.

• Problem with the HP Officejet Pro 8500 printer: clean the print heads each time it is turned on

  Hello everyone,

  the printer HP all-in-one Officejet Pro 8500 (A909a - product n. CB022A) clean the print heads whenever I turn it on. This problem affects any HP Officejet Pro 8500 printer, it is not a problem only of this one I bought. It is a boring bug and annoying because each power clean print heads on involves two bad disadvantages:

  1. waste of ink (each heads cleaning process consumes little ink);
  2. too much time (2-3 minutes) to prepare the printer after plugging.

  I upgraded my printer with the latest firmware available on the HP site (firmware ver. DLM1FN1006BR), but the bug is still present.

  At this point, I ask:

  1. There is a way (or procedure) to disable automatic cleaning this useless to all power on?
  2. Can we communicate with the HP engineers or tell me how to contact directly one of them to indicate the bug and request a new firmware updated?

  Please don't tell me to leave the printer on all the time or that the printheads to each cleaning power is normal behavior! Where then are power and ink savings claimed for this printer model?

  I hope that a solution to this problem. Thanks in advance to everyone will help me!

  Maintenance when the printer is turned on is normal and is required to keep the printheads in good health (not blocked). See here for more information.

  With respect to energy savings, the printer automatically goes to low power mode when the don't feel not for awhile.  It is not necessary turn the unit on to save energy.

• Photosmart Pro B9180 'Replace due to defective print head' WARNING

  My B9180 gave me the msg "replace the defective print head" after a period of inactivity.  I'm using Snow Leopard on a Mac Pro 10.6.8.  The printer went through several periods of non-use, since I bought it used, but almost nine.  Usually, I experience white lines in my impressions after using the printer, I've always been able to fix by cleaning of the nozzles and/or the print heads, either automatically, or manually.  The last round resulted in the warning "defective printhead" even after repeated manual cleaning.  In fact, the process to put off the printer and back, with and without unplugging it, led to 'replace' warnings for ALL the printheads several times, only 2 print heads a couple of times a moment seems to be giving me just the consistantly 'replace magenta/yellow print head.  The strip of plastic that surrounds the ink nozzles is loose to the point of current on the PH.  My printer is no longer under warranty, but before I spend money on phone support and new print heads, I want to look at other possibilities.  The book says that if the manual cleaning of the printheads does not, HP support should be contacted, suggesting that there could be other possible remedies, before you buy new print heads.   I wouldn't begin to buy new print heads to find that again, they will not work because of some other problem.  I am also concerned by the other warnings of print head, even if they did not intervene now.

  Also, opening lid for cleaning of the PH, I noticed a lot of ink accumulate in 4 coarse foam pads, each in its own little tray located inside the printer on the right side.  some of them were overflowing. / I carefully daubbed a part of the ink with q-tips, but I wonder if this condition could be or cause problems.

  Ideas?

  Finally got tired of waiting on HP.  Expected response Bob during the 'days of Forum' or whatever they called.  My problems with their goods should not have affected them too!

  FYI, I ordered a new printhead magenta/yellow, installed and still had "replace print head faulty warning."  Has released the new printhead, cleaned of some sort of clear, gelatinous * beep * of gold contacts with a q - Tip and reinstalled.  Surprisingly, printer started working.  (Took a lot of time to do her routine 'thump, bump & hum'.)  Don't know how long it will last.

  My next printer will be a Canon or an Epson!