I'm really struggling with something and could use some advice if anyone has the time. I must admit I have posted this on a couple of forums today, as I have a works presentation tomorrow and my printing headaches are stressing me out.
My two issues are
1. I am getting a degree of smudging, not every time, about 50% of the time. Always in the same two places with it happens. I am printing MS Word documents in landscape mode. The documents are just one A4 page in length (but I am printing on both sides), and include a mixture of Size 12 to 24 Font, and some colour JPEG pictures. I've used the in-built Cartridge Cleaner, Alignment, and Clean Smear and am not showing an good returns from doing these maintenance tasks. I've tried a printer reset as well. I've also been through about x2 and x5 colour cartridges over the past week, brand new, real HP62 cartridges, and i have the same problem each time. I've probably spent £200 on cartridges. The smudges are fairly faint, but are obvious to the naked eye, and this is a professional document I am trying to print, and I can't really afford smudges of any kind. I've tried to clean the rollers but it's not that easy due to the design of the printer. I also read something yesterday about ink jet printers having some of kind of wasted ink reservoir, and mine was soaked through with blank ink, but not colour. I did my best to clean that, but has not helped. There was a guy on YouTube who said that sometimes when cartridges link they saturate the ink waste mechanism in the printer. Is the smudging likely to be aggravated because I am printing J-Peg pictures (they are small by the way. Each A4 has about 3 or 4 JPEG pictures on it (colour), and each J-Peg picture is only about 10% of the entire available space on A4). Interestingly, I think I am noticing less smudging when I print in MAX DPI ENABLED. Any reason, why this might be so?
2. I think this is unrelated to the smudge, not sure? no matter how I do it, I just cannot refill my HP62 cartridges and it works. With the above on smudging by the way, that's with the original "new" ink on the HP62 cartridges. With this issue I am some other HP cartridges for a bigger printer which I know longer have. These Black, Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow cartridges are brand new, and quite large, I think about 25ml of ink in each one I am guessing. I think my HP62 only holds about 4ml of ink, or 4.5ml for tricolour cartridges (non XL), I think. I follow all the advice on the video's. I am a nurse so I have my own syringes. What I don't have is a way of priming the refilled cartridge, but I read that as long as I am patient I don't need the priming mechanism? I add the three colours to the expended HP62 Tri Colour cartridge, and even if I leave it alone for more than 12 hours, all I get is faint colour with lines through it, every time, even with a lot of printer maintenance (clean cartridges and alignment). I must have tried this 10 times in recent weeks.
My two issues are
1. I am getting a degree of smudging, not every time, about 50% of the time. Always in the same two places with it happens. I am printing MS Word documents in landscape mode. The documents are just one A4 page in length (but I am printing on both sides), and include a mixture of Size 12 to 24 Font, and some colour JPEG pictures. I've used the in-built Cartridge Cleaner, Alignment, and Clean Smear and am not showing an good returns from doing these maintenance tasks. I've tried a printer reset as well. I've also been through about x2 and x5 colour cartridges over the past week, brand new, real HP62 cartridges, and i have the same problem each time. I've probably spent £200 on cartridges. The smudges are fairly faint, but are obvious to the naked eye, and this is a professional document I am trying to print, and I can't really afford smudges of any kind. I've tried to clean the rollers but it's not that easy due to the design of the printer. I also read something yesterday about ink jet printers having some of kind of wasted ink reservoir, and mine was soaked through with blank ink, but not colour. I did my best to clean that, but has not helped. There was a guy on YouTube who said that sometimes when cartridges link they saturate the ink waste mechanism in the printer. Is the smudging likely to be aggravated because I am printing J-Peg pictures (they are small by the way. Each A4 has about 3 or 4 JPEG pictures on it (colour), and each J-Peg picture is only about 10% of the entire available space on A4). Interestingly, I think I am noticing less smudging when I print in MAX DPI ENABLED. Any reason, why this might be so?
2. I think this is unrelated to the smudge, not sure? no matter how I do it, I just cannot refill my HP62 cartridges and it works. With the above on smudging by the way, that's with the original "new" ink on the HP62 cartridges. With this issue I am some other HP cartridges for a bigger printer which I know longer have. These Black, Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow cartridges are brand new, and quite large, I think about 25ml of ink in each one I am guessing. I think my HP62 only holds about 4ml of ink, or 4.5ml for tricolour cartridges (non XL), I think. I follow all the advice on the video's. I am a nurse so I have my own syringes. What I don't have is a way of priming the refilled cartridge, but I read that as long as I am patient I don't need the priming mechanism? I add the three colours to the expended HP62 Tri Colour cartridge, and even if I leave it alone for more than 12 hours, all I get is faint colour with lines through it, every time, even with a lot of printer maintenance (clean cartridges and alignment). I must have tried this 10 times in recent weeks.