Deskjet Review

Hi, my printer ( HP Deskjet 2050) is almost one year old and it has always worked fine until now. when i try to print something the on-off, the paper and the ink light flickers and it makes a noise but nothing happens . does someone have an solution for this?

Go to this HP help site for questions pertaining to your printer lights

I am wondering what actually happens each time I do an auto-clean, intermediate clean, and/or prime on my printer. It’s a HP Deskjet 3740. I took it apart to clean it manually since it’s been being very streaky lately, and found two foam-like pads soaked full of ink. Does "auto-clean" merely squirt off some ink in a side compartment or what? How does this work? Thanks in advance!

The foam pads should be soaked in ink. Theyu pick up the excess ink when you have completed a print job, or when you have completed a cleaning.

A print head cleaning works by heating the print head and expelling a small amount of ink and any debris that may be causing a blockage. You should run a print head cleaning every two – three weeks. Intermediate clean and priming the printer are not necessary if you do a basic cleaning. INtermediate clean and prime work just like a basic cleaning, the biggest difference is going to be the ink volume expelled.

I have a HP Deskjet D1420 and I have refilled the cartridges (HP 22 and HP 22). The printer continues to read them as low or empty and will not print properly. Does anyone have a hack to reset the printer or printer cartridges to either read full or not read at all.

If you want to trash your printer, refill your printer cartridges. I have repair printers with refills cartridges, they just leak ink all over the place. Plug up your print head and sometimes you get ink smears because the ink does no dry right. In other words, you do not save any money because you ruin your printer.

Other cheap solution is to purchase out date cartridges, they still work just fine for me. On some printer cartridges have IC which needs reset by special machine when you refill your cartridges.

I am fed up. I had already tried to refill three HP deskjet D2560 black ink cartridges but each time was a complete failure.

For the last time, I really did it very carefully and delicately so as not to damage or dirty the structure and printhead (and follow the instruction thoroughly), but it seems like there are still problems occur.

Is it due to my unskillfulness or one really can’t refill cartridge but to buy a new one?

Thanks in advance.

Yes some manufacturers put a chip in their catridge that sense when it’s empty and tell the printer that it’s now useless, even if you refill it with more ink. I understand that a product is available which will reset this chip that can be used after refilling. I don’t have a reference for a source, but you can do an internet search.
P.S. I’m told that if you add ink before the sensor trips then you can refill them multiple times.

I have a HP Deskjet F2180 and recently replaced my ink cartridges (HP Tri-colour 22 and HP Black 21) but now It’s started printing my pictures bright purple. I’ve tried cleaning the cartridges and I’ve done a self-test/diagnostic page but nothing has showed up – the colours were fine. Any help with this would be brilliant.

What exactly are you doing to print your pictures bright purple? You say you’ve "cleaned the cartridges" and done a diagnostic, but the diagnostic actually shows up a normal piece of paper and your colour test is completely normal?

A bit more help on this one would’ve been good which is probably why no one answered it but I’ll give it a shot anyways. The only way you’re getting purple is from red and blue, so here’s what you try.

Make a new page in Photoshop or whatever program you happen to be using at the time. You’re going to do a couple of things to it.

– Make 8 squares on the page. In your colour selector, make one 100% Cyan, one 100% Magenta, one 100% Yellow, one 100% black.

– Make the other 4 squares 50% magenta, 50% cyan, one 25% cyan 25% magenta, one 75% magenta 75% cyan, and one 100% magenta and 50% cyan.

I’m willing to bet your magenta ink is the issue. Print off that page. If you’re saying that your test page prints out fine, what you should see on this page you’ve created should be the problem – Somewhere on the page. Your printer can’t print Cyan as anything other than Cyan, Yellow other than yellow, Black other than black and Magenta as Magenta. Then, since you’re getting a purple, the separations I mentioned should show you where the error is.

Without knowing the problem, I’d be willing to bet it’s your magenta ink. You might have to manually adjust magenta out of your pictures to balance them out, or replace the cartridge entirely.

Hope that helped.

I have a HP Deskjet F2180 and recently replaced my ink cartridges (HP Tri-colour 22 and HP Black 21) but now It’s started printing my pictures bright purple. I’ve tried cleaning the cartridges and I’ve done a self-test/diagnostic page but nothing has showed up – the colours were fine. Any help with this would be brilliant.

Instead of wasting your ink, you can simply use a Q-tip with some water on it and wipe the head clean. That being said, you also have to locate the print head. Different manufacturers place the print head in different locations. Some like Epson put the head inside the printer and others the print head is part of the cartridge itself. There are some who would recommend alcohol, but that could damage your printer in the long run. A third option is to buy a print head cleaning kit, but again, that’s spending money directly.

We’re using HP Deskjet 656c printer. It ran out of ink and it to0k some time before it got refilled again. When it was refilled, the prints aren’t as bright as it used to be. How do I fix this?

When you refill any cartrdige, the print is never as sharp as the original ones. Check the printer preference and make sure that the quality is set to normal or BEST. If that doen’t incerease the sharpness, then replace with the original cartrdige and save yourself the headache.

I want to know what the 2 orange drop lights mean on a HP Deskjet. Will they stay on when the printer is off and the ink lights are on?
My printer is a HP Deskjet 1051

It means your ink is running low, time to change the cartridge(s)

my HP deskjet f2200 says there is no ink in either cartridge but there is ink in both, any idea how to fix this?

did u touch the copper contact on the side/back of the ink cartrige? the static in your fingers can short the sensor and cause the cartrige to see no ink, check that there is ink in cart and reset printer

I have a HP Deskjet F2180 and recently replaced my ink cartridges (HP Tri-colour 22 and HP Black 21) but now It’s started printing my pictures bright purple. I’ve tried cleaning the cartridges and I’ve done a self-test/diagnostic page but nothing has showed up – the colours were fine. Any help with this would be brilliant.

Instead of wasting your ink, you can simply use a Q-tip with some water on it and wipe the head clean. That being said, you also have to locate the print head. Different manufacturers place the print head in different locations. Some like Epson put the head inside the printer and others the print head is part of the cartridge itself. There are some who would recommend alcohol, but that could damage your printer in the long run. A third option is to buy a print head cleaning kit, but again, that’s spending money directly.