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haydoracin
Explorer
Jan 10, 2020

HP Officejet 4622 Printer Problem

I have the above print, scan, copy, fax printer. It has been working fine until I recently needed to replace the black ink cartridge. The existing set of 4 ink cartridges was an off brand that were working fine. Replaced the black cartridge with an HP cartridge. Since then it will not print black. Thought maybe I got a bad cartridge so I bought another HP cartridge. Still no black printing. If I change the copy to blue it prints fine. My thinking is maybe HP will not let the black cartridge work with the off brand color cartridges. Any thoughts? We live in a town with WalMart the only choice for supplies. Looked yesterday and they did not have a black cartridge of the off brand in stock or I would have tried that. With the exorbitant cost of ink cartridges I hate to keep experimenting. Might be cheaper to buy a new printer.
  • wa8yxm's avatar
    wa8yxm
    Explorer III
    Mar 02, 2021
    With Ink Jets it's dang near cheaper to replace the printer than the Cartaridges now days.

    Inspect the contacts and if you see no problems it may be your 3-rd party cart took out the driver transistors
  • T18skyguy's avatar
    T18skyguy
    Explorer
    Mar 03, 2021
    I've been using an Epson Ecotank 3700 series for the past 2 years with no problems. It's fairly fast but no where near laser fast. All these printers are monitored through the internet now, with the real goal of trying to keep their ink sales going. I would not be surprised to see them brick the printer intentionally some day to make you buy a new one. That's already being done by some manufacturers(Sonus and even Ford also). Get yourself a good laser and you'll be a happy camper. A laser saves you so much time. BAM-it's done.

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