Did you check your power supply? I’m suspecting something is wrong with it.

C5140 printer will not print with black. new full cartridge

Try Om Stationery. 23429615.

I have an out-of-warranty HP PSC 1210. It’s been a great little workhouse for 8 years. Suddenly it quit working! When I turn it on, all the lights flash and then it goes completely dead. If I unplug it and plug it in again, the exact same thing happens: the lights flash and then it goes dead. I’ve tried unplugging it from the computer as well and that does nothing. My suspicion is that there’s something wrong in the power supply, which isn’t something I can fix. Any thoughts before I buy a new printer?

I have a Photosmart 8180, it keeps shutting off, turning on, shutting off every few seconds. I have unplugged it from the power for a week, when I plug it back in, it does the same thing over and over. Before that happened I was getting an improper shutdown message even though I was not shutting it down. The HP has no help for this…HELP!!!

Follow the instructions for a full reset in the 1st half of this webpage, one of the reset’s listed should work with your printer. It should ask you for the country when it resets.

Perfect! I tried a battery removal process I found elsewhere on the web where I unscrewed the side of my c6280 printer removing the circular battery. It took about 30-45 minutes to do and then it didn’t even work.

Your reset process took less than 30 seconds and did the trick! Thank you! Now I can print and I don’t get any “cannot print” messages. These HP printers that expire your ink are provide a very poor customer experience. Thanks for the work around.

Thanks a lot! It worked! Way too easy!
(I have an C5180)

Call HP tech tech support. Only HP-techs can reset the region for printer.

Thanks a lot!!!
I have an officejet 6310 – Started getting an error message ”left cartridge needs replacing”
Knowing it was only part used and having cleaned everything I could and getting nowhere, I came across your advice on resetting. Tried it and nothing new happened!!!!!!!!!!!
Took both cartridges out and reset again
reset language and country
relaced cartridges
confirmed that they were HP ‘part used’
aligned cartridges
and hey presto
PRINTING AGAIN!!

Cheers

Hi,
I have an HP c4280 printer, and I would like to find out how to change the region of my printer from EUROPE to USA. This is necessary, because I want to use HP 74 and 75 ink cartridges instead of using HP 350 and 351. I would be very grateful if someone could help me. Thank you in advance

Sir can you please tell how to reset hp k209a ink level.
Thanks

Thanks! My C8180 works again. I was ready to go out and buy a new printer (anything BUT another HP) but now I’ll get a little more return from the $300+ I spent on this one.

Excellent direction for resetting the HP Photosmart C5180 Series. I went to the HP site and found absolutely no help there in finding out what a “Error OXC 18a0206″ meant. I had replaced all of the ink cartridges and it still gave that error. What I know for a fact: do not use any ink cartridges after its expiration date, and do not buy more ink cartridges than you plan to use before that expiration date. I had new cartridges but old dates and then problems.

hold the ‘*’ key on the key pad, then press the ‘#’ key and release them both. Then enter ’123′ to enter maintenance mode

Can you provide more details on the capacitor and board diagram that you referenced? I have the same issue with my C5180.

Thanks,

Bob

Resetting an HP 7280 worked perfectly to override the “expired ink” warning.

Above is a good suggestion for entering the Service Menu on the HP Photosmart 8250 (hold down CANCEL and LEFT SELECT simultaneously).

To enter the Service Menu on the HP Photosmart 8450, hold down CANCEL and SAVE simultaneously. SAVE is on the left near POWER. There is no need to power the machine down and up while pressing the buttons. Just wait 5 seconds.

The HP 8450 Service Menu choices are
CODES / ERRORS (Firmware # and last error)
Test the display (press OK to select)
Test the lights (does not flash them all at once…)
Test the buttons (you press them, 1 at a time)
Duplex Demo (prints two pages)
Infinite H’s test
Infinite color H’s test (you can use this to get cartridge ink flowing)
Pen recovery level 1

Level 1 resets cartridge errors; you can use the normal MENU / TOOLS to
PRINT a TEST PAGE.

Pen recovery level 2
Pen recovery level 3

These “Pen recovery” cartridge cleaning routines require additional secret key presses to select and start.

Skew page
Theta Z pen alignment
Continuous pick/kick normal
Printer usage page
Dot count / Raw ink page
Custom Diagnostic Page
Pen electrical test 1
Pen electrical test 2
Pen electrical test 3
Service Station Diagnostic 1
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Please share your discoveries.
–jerry

My printer would not start….it has done this since new, intermittently
Recently I smacked it on the side….it started right up. This means there is a cold solder joint on one of the circuit boards…..it also means this is not a top quality product

Hi there.
I got a brand new Photosmart C7200, from a guy who where about to dispose of it (The plastic was still on it). Upon getting it I could see that none of the ink-cardriges where mounted, so I bough a complete set from IncClub..The printer refused to accept them, claiming I should put in the original cardriges following the printer on shipment. I reset it as told here, and whattdoyouknow, it worked Thanks a lot from Norway RJG