C6150 ink dripping

I have a C6150 that I replaced the magenta yesterday. It started dripping it all over the inside of the printer, but isn't printing magenta out of the print head. In fact, nothing but cyan and black is now printing. It did sit for probably a month with low magenta, low enough that we were just choosing to print black only (should be the default when I'm printing black and white anyway, imho).
I've tried the cleaning menu option many times with no improvement.
I've never used anything but HP ink, so we can avoid that finger pointing.
Any suggestions on how to fix this besides the "Color Mix or Missing Colors on the Diagnostic Page" page (which doesn't solve this)?

Remove the cartridge and discard it. Clean the printer and now install a brand new cartridge to see if it resolves the issue.
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I have a great printer I feel, but when I installed new cartridges, two of them will not print. The light magenta and the Magenta they both have expire dates of 10/2011. I've tried cleaning and all other methods any help? Self test page shows those two magentas blank.

You will need to Contact HP to request a "Regionalization Reset". There should not be any charge for this, it is covered as part of the cartridge warranty. You will need to have access to your computer and printer while on the line with HP. You will also need to have a set of cartridges for the new region, once the reset is complete cartridges from the original region will no longer work. HP's web page on the subject is here.
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Hi there nobster,
This article should cover the blinking light. However, I suspect the printer requires servicing.
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Stange behaviour HP printer Photosmart B9180

Today suddenly i have troubles printing from Adobe Photoshop CS5.
When i choose print, the settings dialog comes. Then when i press " print settings " Photoshop crashes
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I noticed a recent update of HP printer software for OSX Lion from Apple? Maybe it has to do something with this?
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I solved my problem. (thanks to Robin Warren) It's all about the new HP printerdriver that was rolled out 8 aug 2011, called Version 3.3
The crash problems and the huge ink spill problems are gone.
I posted my problem in the HP forum also:
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Mac-printing-and-scanning/Very-stange-behaviour-Pho tosmart-B9180-prints-with-huge-amount/td-p/804413
The solution is roll back to driver version 3.2 !
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If you do not have a timemachine copy from 2 months ago, i provided the whole HP folder as a download.
I know it's not the best way to solve problems, but i'm annoyed that there was NOBODY from HP supporting my threath.

I put in four new ink cartridges, now photos are dripping with ink, literally dripping.

My ink was low so I put four new cartridges in - Photo, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow. Using HP Advanced Photo Paper Glossy, and photos are dripping with ink. Please advise.
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Ink cartridge dripping ink every where

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I am sorry that you are having that issue with the printer. Here is a document that addresses quality output for your printer. It will give you troubleshooting steps to try to resolve that issue that you are having. Here is a link to that document.
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HP C6150 All-In-One Will Not Print Black Text But Does Partial Test Print

Hi. Thanks in advance for any help anyone can proffer.
I've read through the forum and I think there are some similar issues, but none exactly the same as ours.
This HP C6150 does print pictures, but suddenly stopped printing black text.
HOWEVER, the test prints will print in black with the Windows Logo, but will not print any associated text.
Odd. It just suddenly stopped printing.
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The cartridge prior to the recent replacement was working fine and was not yet out of ink.
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Were the driver corrupt, the reinstall should have fixed it ... you'd think.
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C6150 - how to make it a black and white only printer

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rule out the obvious that you are printing on the correct side of the paper
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I posted a message earlier today about HP's shameless ripoff re ink usage. In that thread, one poster commented about printer design, print heads, etc., by way of explanation as to why my HP 6100 appears to use color ink, when in fact I am not printing anything in color.
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C6150 only printing yellow

I replaced the yellow ink on my C6150 inkjet printer and now it only prints the yellow color when I choose color printing. It prints black when I choose black & white printing. It I tried "Clean Printhead" 3 times and "Align Printer" 2 times. The "Align Printer" had an error message when done, saying it didn't align properly. I've never had a problem before with any other ink changes. I use genuine HP Ink everytime. Could it be the yellow ink cartridge that is defective and causing the other colors not to show up?

Hi Guammie,
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Thank you for the detailed information, I appreciate it. I’ve included The Error Message 'Printer alignment failed' Displays on the Control Panel trouble shooting document.
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