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Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Monday, August 08, 2005 - 11:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My printer is printing heavy on the blue-ish/cyan side. I ran the toolbox (my printer is an HP 5150 deskjet.) I ran the calibration and the yellow is very green/blackish. The magenta is very violet. Not much magenta/pink/red at all. The ink levels appear to be fine... HELP! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!

Ddr
Member

08-19-2001

Monday, August 08, 2005 - 12:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sounds like you're out of ink.

Draheid
Board Administrator

09-09-2001

Monday, August 08, 2005 - 12:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Julieboo: You may have a bad cartridge. If you have a spare color cartridge, I would install that and see if the problems clear up for you. If not, put the old cartridge back in and carefully seal the new one in a ziplock bag (to keep it from drying out) or a storage box designed for cartridges. Then try running the 'clean' routines in your toolbox and see if that helps. Actually, you could do these in reverse first to see if the printer can correct it's own problems for you.

Hope that helps.

Jimmer
Member

08-30-2000

Monday, August 08, 2005 - 12:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That's good advice. Run the cleaning routines. Then try replacing the cartridge. The good news is that with HP the jets are replaced with the cartridge (I think) so if you have a problem that may fix it. Also, be careful not to touch the contacts on the cartridge when installing it.

(Congratulations Dra by the way. I'm sure the board will keep running smoothly!)

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Monday, August 08, 2005 - 3:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks! I'll try a new color cartridge and see how it goes....

Not1worry
Member

07-30-2002

Wednesday, August 10, 2005 - 7:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I've got a HP psc 750 all in one printer that refuses to copy and scan. It prints just fine, but that's it. The error message is scanner failure. It tells me to power off then on again. Nothing works. I've gone to the website and tried their recommendation, which was to do a partial reset. I tried uninstalling the driver from the computer and reinstalling it. Nothing works. The website did say that they scanner mirrors might be dirty, but the steps for cleaning them were too involved for me. I would have to take off the top deck, the ribbon cable, plus more stuff and it scares me. The last step even says "Re-arrange the parts slowly and with due attention." Not confidence inspiring.

Any ideas? Does anyone know about how much it could cost to fix this? I can't see paying more than $75 or so to fix it, since I can get a new one for $125ish. I've been really happy with this machine till this point.