Thank you so much. Nothing was working, then we soaked the printhead and success!!!!

I have an HP Photosmart D7460. It is a printer only. I have an ink system failure Oxc18a0306. I have no numeric buttons, no arrow buttons no help or OK buttons but I do definitely need help getting this thing up and running again.

HP C6380 All in One is 2 years old and out of warranty. Carefully cleaned print carriage as recommended by HP. No luck. Contacted HP to purchase new print carriage. Not made and told cheaper to buy new printer. Many re-starts as recommended.. no lock. Finding this website… I soaked the print carriage in hot water. Lots of ink washed out. Rinsed and dabbed dry. Reloaded with ink cartridges. Got same ink system error msg, i.e., 0xc19a0023 and Oxc19a0024. Shut down and restarted one more time and the printer went thru a 5 minute process of checks, printing and aligning heads etc.. Yeah! it’s working again. What a three-day fiasco and discovery that HP will do nothing. So, my advice.. Soak the carriage and clean it out if you’re out of warranty. Thank you very much!!!!

Awesome! Followed the steps for Master Reset (unplugged printer, pressed help and ok buttons simultaneously, plugged back in, acknowledged improper shut-down then ran self test diagnostic page and it printed!). I’ve had the printer for 4+ years and actually had good experience with it, but I’m glad to have bought some more time. Thanks!

Hi!

This helped me and the printer started to work again.
Thanks!

-Ari

HP C5180 All-in-One Printer

Steps:

1. Unplug the power cable from printer while the printer is powered on.
2. Press and hold OK and HELP buttons while plugging in the power cord. Wait for the screen to go black or blank before releasing the keys.
3. Just turn on the printer and configure your printer new

Hi
Got a 5 year old 3310 all-in-one. Changed the black ink cartridge and then got the ink failure message. Found your site and tried everything and the only thing that worked was to hold the OK, cancel, black and colour buttons down all at the same time and whilst doing that to turn it off. Then switched it back on got a OB message so pressed OK button and followed prompts for language country etc and then it did a maintainence device check for abotu 5 minutes – lots of noise and hey presto printing!! Thanks guys for all the info. wonder how long it will work for but sounds like we are lucky to have got 5 years without this problem.

HP Deskjet 1050 3 in 1 printer got problem.problem was simply no accepting refilled cartridge.I looked in google many hours and tried to fix it but it was disappointing.

1)Then,I took out cartridge,wiped connecter with wet cotton cloth very gently as well as wiped head then rest all part.It seemed very clean.

2)I putback cartridge into printer,pressed power button more than 15 times very fast,then pressed all 4 buttons for 15 seconds,then pressed just cancel button more than 15 times very very fast.

3)Then,I gave order of clean cartridge more than 5 times.

4)Then,printed my own documents,was printed very nice,several prints no problem.It is printing now.

5)even,computer says Ink low but printer shows both cartridge indicater fine,no allert!!!

6)I don’t know that how it is working but working very very nicely.my work relieved my headache.

7)Try yourself and let me know!!!

Awesome – I was about to take my Photosmart C7180 to the repair shop after spending £67 on a full set of inks when I found your entry.
Totally worked – couldn’t get the 0-00000 at the end as the start up screen was running ..but with no error 5 secs later but it totally worked!!
It has also stopped sounding like a derailed train ha ha 10/10 you are a printer GOD !! ;D

HP c8180 ink system error 0xc05d0381 tried every thing-also getting carriage jam and it moves freely-nothing blocking it

I did all the reset steps several times with no fix. Then I went through the process and before turning it off I took out all the ink cartridges. When I turned it back on I put the cartridges back in and immediately went to the tools menu and did “clean printhead” and “align printer”. It worked…at least for now!

Where is the cmos battery in c7280? I couldnt find it.

IT WORKED!!!!

after swapping out one cartridge that was expired, I got error 0xc19a003 on my C6280, tried powering off a couple of times but error was consistent, until I followed you instructions exactly and removed all the cartridges and

Hello all Had a error code Oxc18a0106 did this and it’s working Fine. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. You don’t know how much I appreciate this.

great tip. worked on my HP C7280 for error 0xc18a0306. THANKS!

I have ink system has failed on my Hp Photosmart C6183 all-in-one . Unable to copy, receive faxes,or print. Refer to printer document. Error 0xc18a0106. I have tried this

1. press * and # to enter a secret support menu.

2. Enter code 123

3. Press Right button until “System Config Menu”. Press OK.

but unable to see the “System Configuration Menu”. How can I resolve this problem?

it good to hear that you fixed your printer. Most Printer that encounter this issue are likely serviced or replaced.

Several different errors on many HP models may benefit from running the HPFirmwareEnableRelease.exe utility that HP no longer provides on their web site. It used to be on Driversdown.com but the link is dead now. If you would like this utility, I will e-mail it to you. It is a very small executable file.(56kb) I put it in a ZIP container so e-mail services won’t block it. UnZip (extract) the exe file using WinZip, 7Zip, WinRar, or even the built in unzipping function of Windows. Unplug all of the USB devices except your HP printer. Run this executable file. Wait 30 seconds. You’ll get a “complete” notice. Turn the printer off. Unplug the printer power. Plug it back in & turn it on. It will go through a few minutes of gyrations & noises, then all is well, maybe.
Email your request for this little utility to me at thaddeusmbATyahooDOTcom
thaddeusmb@yahoo.com

CMOS reset worked for HP C6180. Pain in the rear to get to circuit board located on bottom right hand side – photo card inputs are the edge of board. Lost most of the plastic clips during disassembly and have a Frankenstein-looking printer – but it works and it doesn’t think I need to give it cartridges that aren’t expired! Expired ink – too funny, HP!!

I have an 18 month old Photosmart C309a printer with the Ink System Failure message 0xc19a0036. Went through the HP recommendations for unplugging, plugging, cleaning, etc. and nothing worked. Tried several of the steps here and I thought they were going to work (*#, 123, etc.) and that appeared to be working, as I got to the Start Here profile for easy product setup. However, it keeps saying that my printhead is missing, and I should lift lid and install. I have removed it and reinstall several times and now am getting the 0xc19a0024 message about Ink System Failure. Any further suggestions? Thanks!