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Solution Page
The remanufactured HP C4842A (10-Yellow) cartridge that I Refilled is printing poorly or not at printing at all
There may be air present in the cartridge:
- Tilt the bag so that the exit port stem is at the bottom facing downward toward your sink.
- Insert the tip of your syringe into exit port to hold open the spring loaded valve.
- Press cartridge pump bulb and HOLD. Do not release until step 5 is complete. This will be messy as ink and air should be released, so work over a sink!
- Remove syringe tip from exit port.
- Now release bulb.
- Wait 5 seconds or so until chamber under bulb is full.
- If you have excessive air Steps 3 to 6 may have to be repeated before your cartridge will operate properly.
- Put the cartridge back together and place it in your machine.
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There may be some dried ink, or debris, that is stopping the ink from flowing
through the printhead in the machine. This can be cleared up by cleaning the printhead:
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Try running your printer's printhead cleaning routine (refer to your owner's
manual if you need assistance) to see if that gets your cartridge to print
properly. If this routine fixes the problem, you do not need to go any
further. If you see improvement in your prints, try running the routine
again to see if it will resolve the problem for you.
If the cleaning routine doesn't help the situation, you will want to
manually clean the printhead in your machine:
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Best way- Use an empty cartridge and fill it with printhead cleaner. Then, run it through
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"troubled" printhead by printing the associated color
intensive pages to clean the printheads out of any debris, or dried ink
that may be present at the jets. If they do not clear immediately, let
the solution set in the printer for a while (overnight if necessary) before you
try again. This will allow the cleaner to break down whatever is clogging
the jets in the printhead.
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If you don't have an empty cartridge, try this method: With the cartridge
out of the machine, inject our cleaning solution directly into the inlet port in the
machine ( This
is the area in the printer that punctures the outlet port on the cartridge
to draw its ink) for the color that is not printing properly.
Immediately place the cartridge back into the machine. The cleaning solution
should be allowed to sit in the inlet port a minimum of 20 minutes to allow
it to break down the clog (kind of like Drano). It may take longer
than the 20 minutes, or even multiple iterations of this activity, to fully
purge the debris out of the machines printhead. If it is a tough clog, let the
cleaner break it down overnight. To check on the clog, and in an
attempt to purge the debris, attempt to print a color
intensive page for the problem color.
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