

Still Missing Colors? – allow 24-48 hours for cartridge foam to fully absorb ink: NOTE: The Printer Clean Utility (“Clean Printhead” feature) can also help clear a clogged PRINTHEAD. You may need to perform this once or twice to pull ink from ink cartridges and into the PRINTHEAD assembly. “Clean Printhead” under the TOOLS/MAINTENANCE menus) to ensure air is not trapped in the newly refilled ink cartridge or printhead. It is suggested to first initiate the Printer Clean Utility (i.e. Please verify the printer has properly recognized each ink cartridge, if not please leave a comment below or contact us.Many of the HP Officejet 6000, 6500A, 70A series printer models which use HP 920 ink cartridges may experience poor image quality performance or ‘color cross-contamination’ at some point during the printer’s life. You must clean this section very carefully using a small piece of fabric to get the printer to recognize the ink cartridges.Ĭlose your HP Officejet 6500 printer’s door and wait for the ink cartridges to get back to their proper spot, you can now print a test page.

Locate the sensor on the lower-left side of the ink cartridges it will look like a small square. Wait for them to reach the center of the printer and leaving the left side free. Open the gate leading to the ink cartridges this will simply raise everything, the scanner included, to take a good look at the ink cartridges. Press the On/Off button on the front side of the panel. Procedure to eradicate ink cartridge recognition issues on HP Officejet 6500 printers: Step #1:Ĭlean the HP Officejet 6500 printer's sensor that does not recognize the ink cartridges. Not to mention replacing an entire HP Officejet 6500 headprint will approximatively cost you $45 a considerable amount of money for part who is not even damaged.Īfter doing more research, we have found that a small sensor caused this error, this sensor is placed on the left side of the mechanism that makes the ink cartridges move from one side to another. We even thought the problem was the printhead the first time we encounter this issue, but we were wrong before after checking the printhead the problem persists. In this post we will give you some steps to follow to make the printer recognize the ink cartridge installed. The HP Officejet 6500 printers usually do not recognize the ink cartridges installed whether they are brand new, refilled, or recycled.
