Officejet Pro 8500a wireless printer hangs up when printing document.

I have an officejet pro 8500a wireless printer and it has been working flawlessly. Now all of a sudden it hangs up when sending a document to it. It will say "now printing", with the red "x" and just sits there looking at me. I have discovered that I can open the printer lid and close it and it will then print??????
Also when I click on "apps"on the printer menu screen, it tells me, "unable to connect to the server".
Anybody experience this problem??

I too have this issue with my HP8500a Plus.
I have managed to narrow down the issue to one of the cartridges. Whenever this cartridge is inside the printer, the issue will happen. If it's not, then the issue disappears!
I have tested this discovery on TWO different hp8500a printers, and they both react to this "special" cartridge the same way: its presence inside the cartridge tray triggers the issue.
There is only one thing that makes this cartridge any different form the other ones: even though it IS a genuine HP cartridge, it has been refilled and the max allowed page count has been hit. The issue started happening only after the max allowed page count has been hit.

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