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ts_letter
03-23-2003, 12:00 AM
Everything my printer was printing became pink. I was printing something one day and the blue just slowly faded away. I figured it was just my ink cartrige and went and got a new one. I installed it and printed a few things to get the ink to run through the lines but everything is still pink and the new cartrige didn't help. Now I really hate printers. I just got a printer that when you tell it to print it only prints the first page and you have to shut everything down and then turn everything back on to get it to print every subsequent page. I have 2 printers on the fritz and just wish they would work. Anyone got any ideas? The pink one is a hewlet packard deskjet 722 and the one pager is a brother laser printer.
RenegadeKing
03-23-2003, 12:22 AM
After you installed the new color cartridge did you have the printer clean/align it? If not check the printer manual on how to do it.
JCB
03-23-2003, 09:02 AM
How pink? Is it purely pink or does it just have a pink tint in addition to the other colors?
dackerman
03-23-2003, 10:39 AM
You may want to try like RenegadeKing suggested aligning the print cartridges or cleaning them using the software that I hope the printer came with. I can't really think of any other reason why it would start printing everything pink...

How old is the printer?
icallmedan
03-23-2003, 01:52 PM
Maybe it is still your cartridge. I remember one time mine did that, so I went to get a new cartridge installed it and it was still pink, so I went and traded that one for a different one and it worked.
ts_letter
03-23-2003, 04:48 PM
Well I printed test sheets and aligned it and its only printing the black and the pink. No yellow and no blue. I went out to hewlet packards web site and they say if replaceing the cartrige didn't help then it is probly broke :(
JCB
03-23-2003, 07:15 PM
I wonder if the contacts that send the signal to the print cartridge could be cleaned?
azscary
03-23-2003, 07:21 PM
Does the printer software have a PRIME utility? You may have ran it so dry it needs priming.
ts_letter
03-23-2003, 11:33 PM
No. Not that I am aware of
glc
03-24-2003, 05:26 AM
Yes, the contacts can be cleaned. They are a series of pins, I use a Q-tip soaked in alcohol. There may be other issues such as a bad carriage ribbon cable, but a thorough cleaning sure won't hurt before you give up and toss the printer.