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HP 842C Deskjet printer color cartridge refill problem
Dear Anyone Who Might Know:
I just refilled the yellow reservoir of my #17 cartridge after it went dry a week ago with about 10m. of ink. It printed yellow for a short period of time but soon faded and now will not print yellow AT ALL. Aligning and cleaning the cartridge does no good. However, when I remove the cartridge from the carriage & dab the print head on tissue paper, some yellow bleeds through. Why does it not print yellow any longer and how can I get the cartridge to work so I haven't wasted the replacement ink I've just put in??? Thanks. |
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printerguy dontemailme@ here.com wrote:
Dear Anyone Who Might Know: I just refilled the yellow reservoir of my #17 cartridge after it went dry a week ago with about 10m. of ink. It printed yellow for a short period of time but soon faded and now will not print yellow AT ALL. Aligning and cleaning the cartridge does no good. However, when I remove the cartridge from the carriage & dab the print head on tissue paper, some yellow bleeds through. Why does it not print yellow any longer and how can I get the cartridge to work so I haven't wasted the replacement ink I've just put in??? Thanks. I've tried twice to fill the #17 and have had limited success. I usually end up with at least one color being a bit streaky (burnt out nozzles I suppose). My best guess is you have air trapped in the sponge or in the reservior between the filter screen and the printhead. Printing dry can burn out some of the nozzles very quickly. Does your needle go to the very bottom of the cartridge? If not, there is air in the sponge below where your needle could reach. Those sponges are very dense and the ink will not migrate very far on its own. If you can reach the bottom, try injecting a little more very slowly right at the screen. If that doesn't work, you might try rubber banding some paper towel to the head, place the cartridge in a strong plastic bag or a sock head down and spinning it. This just might push some ink down into the head area. You might also try very slowly applying pressure to the fill hole to push ink through. Be gentle or you could burst the head seals and push ink into an adjacent cell. Next time I refill I'm going to do it well before it runs out and inject VERY SLOWLY (maybe even let it soak in rather than push it in) right at the filter screen. Good luck to both of us! Bryan P.S. my first attempt at the #15 (black) worked perfectly. |
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