Photosmart C4280 - copying without colour cartridge

My device is displaying: "Print cartridge is missing, incorrectly installed" It is true, because my colour cartridge is empty and i dont want to use more. But this text is always on devices display. Its possible to erese this error message from display? And when i want to use C4280 to copying documents without starting my computer, it is not workinr (because there is error message on display) and when i push grey button (black copy) it is not working.

Two very cheeky expressions, I've found in HP's suggestions: "HP cannot guarantee the quality of non HP cartridges", and " If TWO new cartridges were installed, perform the steps on both".
In fact HP guarantees, HP cartridge will stop working prematurely. And there is no way I will buy two new cartridges, costing much more, than new printer, while old one is almost full!
In the meantime I've hacked this printer, as I remembered "Light bulb conspiracy " film. I've used two old ones only, and I guarantee I will never buy new one, especially original HP. It already happened once to me, that my black XL stopped working, after printing less pages, than small one included within new printer. I've just pumped twice rest of ink into old small one, and it worked. Now my colour cartridge is hacked , and works OK, so I have not only modest black option. My colour cartridge is from 2011, and that was maybe real, artificial problem , pre-programmed by scoundrels? Why the hell to destroy this planet such way? If manufacturers must to cover costs, why not to sell printers for some 3-4 times more, instead of wasting materials? Answer is one - madness of greed. We are society of slaves, thinking, work is target of life.
If there was real democracy on the planet, we, the people would be able to stop pumping money into Global Warming scam, and ban producing goods, which are intentionally made to be broken quickly. And companies like that, not CO2, are dangerous to our planet.
Thanks for suggestions. Already found better, suggested by kind of people, I hope will save our future.

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How can I print in black when the colour cartridge is empty

Hi,
I have an HP Photosmart 5510 that I use ONLY for simple black on white printing for work. I have it set to black ink only but today, a wet and cold Sunday night when I really really need the d*mned thing to work because it's month end and I have to send copies of all my worksheets to head office, I get an error message to the effect that it won't allow me to print using the brand spankin' new original HP black cartridge until I buy some totally unwanted colour cartridges to keep it company.
Am I really being held to ransom like this? Are Hewlitt Packard so short of cash that their corportate monolith will falter and fall if I don't buy expensive consumables whose only function is to print in colours I have no wish or need to use?
Am I really unable to use the black print facility on *MY* printer until I've fed yet more cash into the greedy maw of some US blue chip company?
If the answer to any of the above is yes then tomorrow evennig after work I shall have to go to the store where I bought my HP printer and very publically tell them were to shove it and why. I shall seek out a new printer from ANY MANUFACTURER OTHER THAN HP that allows me to print in black only and I shall make it a mission to spread the word.
Of course it's entirely possible that HP have a simple fix that will allow me to use black cartridges only in which case I shall be delighted to continue buying original HP black cartridges on a monthly basis.
On the other hand I do need a reply urgently because as I say, it's Sunday night and this problem has put me hours behind for work tomorrow as it is.
Thanks (I hope).
Andrew

Hi,
Firstly I'd like to say: I'm not working for any computer vendor, both hardware and software. From my understanding, the technology to make those inject printers dictates why we need all inks to print when we only need black.
1. On some printers which ONLY use 2 ink cartridges (black & tri-color) we can print black only if the tri-color cartridge still has ink at least one color
2. For many other printers which have individual color ink cartridges we need all of them to print even we only print black only. Printers may stop during the warming up process.
3. For some printers, we can force them to print black only without ink in one color cartidge but this would more damage than good because this will shorten their lives.
One thing I've mentioned few times. Vendors (all of them) should allow users to SCAN without inks. But as mentioned above, printers may stop during the warming up process and first of all THEY ARE PRINTERS.
Regards.
BH
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Photosmart C4280 Problems Printng Black

I saw a similar question was asked earlier today for a different printer, but the person never responded to follow up posts, so there was no answer. My printer is the Photosmart 4280, though. If it matters, I have been able to print black before and I've been using the same computer/operating system for as long as I have had the printer. The ink level is fine.
My color printing is immaculate, but over the past hour I've spent messing with this, anything I try to in black is some varying combo of the following problems: too light, not fully printed out, really blurry. Unfortunately, I need to print 29 pages I can only pull up in google docs or adobe. Neither will let me cut and paste into a Word document and I'm not aware of any way to change the color of the text in either of those programs.
All I need is a hard copy of this handout that is legible. I don't care if it's purple and it doesn't have to be pretty. I would be perfectly happy if someone could even just tell me some way to fool the printer into printing in color when I can't change the color of the text in the actual document.
Please help me if you can. I am a very stressed out law student. Also very tired, very broke, and very stranded-in-my-apartment-until-tomorrow. Thank you!

Two very cheeky expressions, I've found in HP's suggestions: "HP cannot guarantee the quality of non HP cartridges", and " If TWO new cartridges were installed, perform the steps on both".
In fact HP guarantees, HP cartridge will stop working prematurely. And there is no way I will buy two new cartridges, costing much more, than new printer, while old one is almost full!
In the meantime I've hacked this printer, as I remembered "Light bulb conspiracy " film. I've used two old ones only, and I guarantee I will never buy new one, especially original HP. It already happened once to me, that my black XL stopped working, after printing less pages, than small one included within new printer. I've just pumped twice rest of ink into old small one, and it worked. Now my colour cartridge is hacked , and works OK, so I have not only modest black option. My colour cartridge is from 2011, and that was maybe real, artificial problem , pre-programmed by scoundrels? Why the hell to destroy this planet such way? If manufacturers must to cover costs, why not to sell printers for some 3-4 times more, instead of wasting materials? Answer is one - madness of greed. We are society of slaves, thinking, work is target of life.
If there was real democracy on the planet, we, the people would be able to stop pumping money into Global Warming scam, and ban producing goods, which are intentionally made to be broken quickly. And companies like that, not CO2, are dangerous to our planet.
Thanks for suggestions. Already found better, suggested by kind of people, I hope will save our future.

Time Capsule and all in one printer HP Photosmart C4280

Hello,
I recently got me a Macbook pro finally. Its awesome!! I love it. Im looking to get Time Capsule or something like that. I want to be able to hook my printer up to something and print from other room. I want to print wirelessly...the scanning and copying feature really doesnt bother me not to have.
Any know if the Time Capsule works with the HP Photosmart C4280. I got this printer with my computer. Its a multi function printer.
The backup feature is neat, but its not as important to me...Im sure it will be if I never lose my hard drive.
Anyone have any advice? Anyone have the HP Photosmart C4280 printer running on time capsule or any other wireless device in order to print wirelessly? Thanks
Amy

Hi Amy,
It should work just fine as a printer. I have a similar setup, and printing works, but I can't scan or fax across the network.
I'd probably recommend the Time Capsule over an Airport Extreme- your MBP can use it for Time Machine backups- untethered!
I've got one on order for our Mac notebooks.
Oh yeah: we have an HP Printer, too. Works fine.
If you price out 500GB and 1TB drives and wireless N routers, I think you'll see that Time Capsule is a pretty good deal.
Enjoy your new Mac!
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Can you refill ink for a Photosmart C4280 all-in-one?

I saw another thread about this, but couldn't reply, so I'm starting my own.
A friend told me I should get refills since it's cheaper than always buying the #'s 74/75, I believe it is, but I don't know if it's possible for my printer.
If anyone knows and can help, please do.
Thanks!

Hi @TM57,
Welcome to the HP Forums!
I see that you are wondering if you can refill the ink for your HP Photosmart c4280, and I am happy to help!
Please take a look through this guide, Can I Refill The Ink In My HP Ink Cartridge? As I believe it has the answer you are looking for.
Hope this clears things up, and have a nice day!
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PSC 1510 All in one printer - won't print even black and white when colour cartridge not recognised

My PSC 1510 All in one printer is flashing the "check printer cartrige icon" and both "Black" and "Colour" icons at the bottom left of the printer.
It won't print at all, even when I select grayscale (black and white). The help pages tell me that if I remove the colour cartridge the printer will switch to backup mode and I'll still be able to print in black and white (though not copy or scan). But this is not the case, and I can find no way of switching manually to backup mode. The help pages have no useful explanation of backup mode. I've also tried cleaning the cartridge (which I'm pretty sure isn't empty) but that makes no difference.
Can anyone help? I'd be very grateful.

gabri21 wrote: I have a very similar problem with my PSC1510 but only the colour cartridge light is blinking. I am also unable to find any useful information to set up printing in back up mode. Can anyone assist in resolving this problem for us?
With only one cartridge light blinking I would suspect the cartridge, they do rarely fail (much more often for reman cartridges, see here). Clean the cartridge contascts as shown here. If that fails and the cartridge is an original HP then check the warranty date as shown here. If the cartridge is in warranty return it to your dealer for a warranty replacement.
The printer will automatically switch to backup mode if the black (or color in some printers) cartridge is removed. I do not know if this works with the PSC 1510, some all-in-on devices insist on having both cartridges present.
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Photosmart c4280 scanner "USB not connected" to Mac running 10.9.5

I've combed this forum and others and tried all the tricks. I can print and copy, so there's no USB problem. I've turned it all off and rebooted, downloaded an update, removed and re-added the printer, plugged, unplugged the USB and power cords. I've tried using image capture but it says it is not connected to a scanning device. I've reset the printer and uninstalled, per the directions in another thread. Now when I add the printer back, the C4200 series is not an option for software, since I deleted it (and software updates on Mac of course detects no updates available) so the default is "Generic PCL Printer" and of course, it still says the USB is not connected. What now? Thank you!

Hi @techtrampled,
Welcome to the HP Forums!
I understand that you are getting a USB not connected error using your HP Photosmart c4280 on Mac 10.9.5. I am happy to help!
I would recommend to go through the steps in this printer is offline guide, 'Printer is offline' Message Displays on the Computer and the Printer Does Not Print: Mac OS X.
Hope this guide helps, and have a wonderful day!
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My photosmart c4280 has an error and the screen says to turn power off and then on again.

my photosmart c4280 has an error and the screen says to turn power off and then on again

Please try temporary connecting your printer to some other power socket, without using any power extention or hub.
If the same issue persists, contact the local HP Support center, as it seems like and hardware or Power Supply problem.
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Photosmart B209a Printer and HP364XL cartridges

Afternoon all,
This one has baffled me and I can't find any answers online anywhere so hoping you can help...
I have a Photosmart B209a All in One printer. The shopping card that came with it specifies that the cartridges that can be used with it are HP364 and HP364XL (for all colour and black cartridges). So I bought a black HP364XL as it was more economical.
The cartridges are lined up as Magenta, Cyan, Yellow and Black from left to right. There are little symbols on each slot to tell you which cartridge to put where. All good so far. The cartridges that came with it aren't the XL version and the black cartridge is about twice as wide as the colour ones (even though none are XLs). When the new XL cartridge came, it is half the size of the normal black cartridge that is already in there (so the same size as the colour ones), and just won't fit in the slot. Underneath the cartridges just between where the pull tab (to eject the cartridge) is and the metal chip, there is a hole on the cartridge that is currently in there. The XL cartridge doesn't have that hole so it won't slot all the way down.
So it is obviously not meant to go in that place.
So I was wondering - have HP made a mistake and teh XL cartridges just don't fit. Or, have I got a duff XL cartridge. Or, is the black XL cartridge supposed to be used on its own or something, and goes in one of the other slots where the colour cartridges currently sit?
I'm confused on this one. All the cartridges are genuine HP and I've never had problems like this with other printers.
Anyone able to shed some light on it?
Thanks,
Sarah
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kriandor wrote:
Thank you very much HP! I had the same problem when I bought a 364XL (photo) cartridge for my Photosmart B109 printer. Now I have to buy another cartridge because it's the wrong one - which I've unwrapped so I can't send it back. [snip]
I would suggest you Contact HP, explain the situation and ask for an exchange.
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Photosmart C4280 not working with Airport Express

I have a Photosmart C4280 connected to an Airport Express Base Station via USB for wireless printing. I have two computers that I want to use for printing - an iMac and a Toshiba laptop running Windows XP. Printing from the Mac works perfectly and required zero configuration. On the laptop I created the printer using Bonjour. It located the printer on the network without a problem and I selected the driver for the HP 4200 Series printer. However, when I try to print, the print job sits in the qeue and eventually I receive an error message that it couldn't print.
I have disabled the Norton and Windows firewalls but that doesn't solve the problem. I have also tried some generic drivers but that didn't work. Does anybody have any additional suggestions?
Thanks in advance.

Check out http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8883084#8883084
It describes a Vista/AirPortExpress/C4280 installation, but should be relevant to XP.

HP Officejet Pro 8000, HP Photosmart C4280 compatible with Lion?

I am planning to upgrade to Lion after 10.7.2 comes out. I have a HP Officejet Pro 8000 (network) and HP Photosmart C4280 (usb). Will they work under Lion? They work fine under Snow Leopard, and I don't want to replace them.

It's not specific to the C4680, just the PS_AIO_05_C4600_NonNet_Full_Mac_WW_108.dmg followed by the HewlettPackardPrinterDrivers2.7.2 update and running Software Update. I usually see this when printing in Preview, since they were my last settings. Also shown are available options.

[Solved] First installation: HP Photosmart C4280 - Epson EPL-4200L

Hi,
this is my first post in the forum since two day ago have removed kubuntu and installed arch. Thanks the awesome wiki I was able to configure lvm, wireless, bluetooth, graphics, etc but have great problems configuring my two printers.
I have installed, as in wiki,
cups
ghostscript
gsfonts
gutenprint
foomatic-db
foomatic-db-engine
foomatic-db-nonfree
foomatic-filters
hplip
cups-pdf
have added cups to the DAEMONS array in rc.conf and my account to lp group and edited /etc/cups/cupsd.conf so now I have SystemGroup lp
**Epson EPL-4200L**
It's a laser print working on parallel port. Was not necessary add in rc.conf lp, parport, parport_pc modules since they are loaded automatically.
Obviously neither kde systemsetting printer applet nor cups web interface find my printer. Here some output of dmesg:
dmesg | egrep -i "parport|lp|epson"
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
parport_pc 00:06: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: Printer, EPSON EPL-6200L
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven)
**HP Photosmart C4280**
It's a combo (printer/scanner) connected through usb. In lsusb I have:
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 03f0:5c11 Hewlett-Packard PhotoSmart C4200 Printer series
I've blacklisted usblp in /etc/rc.conf and changed device node permission. Since:
ls -l /dev/bus/usb/003/004
crw-rw----+ 1 root lp 189, 259 2 giu 20.12 /dev/bus/usb/003/004
have created /etc/udev/rules.d/10-usbprinter.rules and inserted this:
#HP Photosmart C4280
ATTR{idVendor}=="03f0", ATTR{idProduct}=="5c11", MODE:="0660", GROUP:="lp"
LABEL="usbprinter_rules_end"
usbcore is already loaded so no need to insert it in rc.conf
Even this printer is unrecognized.
I have made an attempt using hp tools: with sudo have launched hp-setup and it finds the printer but clicking on "Printer test page" nothing appens; the same from hp-toolbox.
I need a very big help. Thanks
P.S. I have added my account to sudoers and disabled root: I don't know if this is important.
Last edited by gcala (2010-06-04 10:19:58)

Solved! It was probably a permission problem; used to kubuntu I had added my account to sudoers and blocked root so during printer configuration i used my account/password as credentials; even if they are accepted there is a problem with sudo configuration that make it unusable with cups; so root account is necessary. Using root make other settings useless: inserting !usblp in rc.conf, modify device node permission. Adding own account to lp group is enough.
To use HP scanner add your account to scanner group and uncomment hpaio line in /etc/sane.d/dll.conf

B110a colour cartridges not working even after buying and installing new ones!!!!

i have just got the B110a and have a persistent problem with the colour cartridges not aligning. Despite numerous head cleanings and putting brand new cartridges in i still don't get any colour...........so far to try and resolve the problem i have done the following
With the 'set-up' colour inks
switched off and unplugged printer and laptop, powered everything up and tried again
done numerous printhead cleans
tried numerous alignments
With brand new set of colour cartridges
switched off and unplugged printer and laptop, powered everything up and tried again
done numerous printhead cleans
tried numerous alignments
I'm at a loss, and pretty fed up wish my trusty old Dell printer worked with the new laptop.......

A new phone has a warranty. So take it to an Apple store. If they can't fix it, they will replace the phone. Or do you mean: it stopped working after 9 days, but then you waited until the warranty ran out and then ask us?

Full original colour cartridge to be replaced

Hello everybody,
my HP ENVY 4500 keeps now asking me to replace what I know for sure it's a good full and original colour cartridge (301 - CH562E - exp. date 2015/09/29 - sn 217924 1066006264).
I removed it and cleaned contacts on both cartridge and printer.
I also executed printer cleaning procedure after removing colour cartridge (i.e. with only black cartridge installed) all to no avail.
I know the colour cartridge is good because it printed two pages before I made the only intervention on my part, that I'm now led to suspect may be behind the current problem (even if I don't know why it could affect only one cartridge).
Since printer control panel in Vista 32 bit was continuously crashing when accessing properties I decided to reinstall printer program suite (all of it, driver and applications).
The result is that the control panel has now become accessible once again but the printer no longer prints in colour due to the reported error that I can't clear.
This is in my opinion the worst inconvenience that can happen in a printer (I'm by the way really sensible to toner waste), even worse than ore serious hardware problem (that may happen in products from time time, everything sooner or later breaks up) because it's no doubt all and only logic-related.
I feel cheated once again from a silly machine which decides on her own when a cartridge is good or has supposedly gone stale.
This is something I cannot accept, so if someone is able to help me I'll greatly appreciate it.
I'm otherwise tempted and ready to entirely scrap the printer and once for all also HP (also Epson, given some past experiences, for what is worth...) and buy one of supposedly poorer quality products in the market but at least definitely free of hassles with cartridges.
To think I'm not even refilling cartridges or using refurbished or non original products...
Sorry for the tirade but this really gets me angry.
Thanks in advance for anybody's suggestions
Luca
P.S. The printer, if that may ever be of any help, is connected wirelessly

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Colour cartridges suddenly not recognised

From time to time my printer decides it will not recognise the colour cartridge any longer. I use 75xl. This is despite the cartridge having worked perfectly up until that point, and definitely not being empty. I take it out & put it back in and the messages alternate between the cartridge being incompatible, or missing. When this has occurred previously I have put in a new cartridge and it's resumed working. I then put the old cartridge it previously woulrn't recognise back in & away it goes until the next time. It's just happened again, after successfully printing a couple of pages. I put my spare cartridge in and it wont recognise that either now. As there is a missing cartridge it wont print at all. not even in black & white. I've really had it with this printer, and the lack of support from HP. My printer is out of warranty, but still printing/scanning/ photocopying just fine .. when it will recognise the colour cartrigde. any ideas?? Or should i just go & buy another brand printer?

Hi Anthea White,
I'm sorry you are having issues with the print recognizing colour cartridges. There is actually circuitry between the ink cartridges and the circuitry in the printer. I'm attaching a document that describes how to clean these electrical contacts. Sometimes ink or dust prevents a connection from being made.
I hope this will help you!
I am an HP Employee

Photosmart C4280 - copying without colour cartridge

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