HP Office jet saying I need to replace all cartridges to pint??

Danye · 22-10-2017 2:23pm #1

Hi all,

I have an HP Officejet 6000 printer. It was out of ink so I decided to just buy a black ink cartridge as I had no need for colour and it was also the cheaper option.

When I go to print, a message appears saying I need to replace all cartridges in order to print something!?

Is there anyway to override this?

Thanks.

yoyo · 22-10-2017 2:39pm

Most printers are like that. Also printers will waste ink warming up if they have not been used in a while to prevent the cartridges from drying up. Well that's the marketing spiel!

Unless you can find a hacked firmware or printer diagnostics tool I doubt it would be possible to override this behaviour.

Danye · 22-10-2017 2:45pm

yoyo wrote: »

Most printers are like that. Also printers will waste ink warming up if they have not been used in a while to prevent the cartridges from drying up. Well that's the marketing spiel! Unless you can find a hacked firmware or printer diagnostics tool I doubt it would be possible to override this behaviour.

Thanks for your reply.

So I wasted money just buying a black ink cartridge. Great.

elperello · 22-10-2017 2:54pm

Danye wrote: »

Thanks for your reply.

So I wasted money just buying a black ink cartridge. Great.

Don't feel too bad you are not alone.
There are lots of stories online like this one - https://www.geek.com/tech/hp-screws-scores-of-customers-with-ink-cartridge-timebomb-1671409/

ED E · 22-10-2017 4:47pm

You buy the printer at a loss, then get hammered for ink to recoup the costs. Thats the business models consumers bought into.

irishgeo · 22-10-2017 4:51pm

jsut buy a black laser printer and be done with it

https://www.123ink.ie/Brother-HL-1110-Mono-Laser-Printer-HL1110RF1-i24412.html?gclid=Cj0KCQjwg7HPBRDUARIsAMeR_0jpWmbdHV4eOGj1RHZ1WTpyk_efYmySit7Re-7TNPI8O470ks_OxRwaAlZbEALw_wcB

toner official one 80
non official one 50

i did this ages ago and never looked back.

johndoe99 · 22-10-2017 5:10pm

I encountered same problem with my Brother printer a few years back, I googled and found a website that told me that my cartridges were read my means of a light sensor, and that all I had to do was put black insulation tape on the corresponding part of my colour cartridges, to basically fool the sensor into believing the colour catridges were full. It worked.

Years later I'm still printing in just black.

Just google your printer make/model + block cartridge sensors with tape, or something similar.

HP Office jet saying I need to replace all cartridges to pint??

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