Something REALLY unusual refilling my new HP 97 cartridge.

[Dave C.]

Something REALLY unusual is happening refilling my new HP 97 cartridge
dated 2010 (for my HP Deskjet 6980).

From my earlier posts, when the cartridge went to zero, the printer
became disabled. After refilling the cartridge, the printer still
wouldn't print because the level measured zero, unlike the pre-2010
dated ones.

Well, I took the color cartridge out, printed with only the black
cartridge for a day or two.

Then just a shot in the dark, I put the color cartridge back in and it
started working....all nozzles working 100% and the level measured
25%.

That worked for a day or two then the level again went to zero and the
printer then became disabled. Took the color cartridge out and
printer with only black for a day or two.

After a couple of days, I again put the color cartridge back and the
level again measured 25% and all nozzles working again.

This gets repeated on and on every few days.

How about that! So as long as I want to print color ever other day or
so, this could work for a while.

What a nuisance. Hopefully someone can come up with a workaround.

Regards, Dave C.

 

[Arthur Entlich]

My guess is that the printer has a "memory" of the cartridge serial
number or some other such device.

What you might want to try is to install a few different cartridges (new
full ones??) and then your refilled one again.

I seem to recall that some HP printers were able to remember up to 2 or
so cartridge numbers and would do things like you report, and that
people would swap a couple of (new full??) cartridges they had around.

I may not be recollecting correctly if they needed to be new full ones
or not. It is possible it may work with old empty ones.

Art

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[TJ]

I refill HP 56& 57 on a regular basis and used to refill HP97. I keep
several empty cartridges to cycle thru to reset the ink levels.
You don't need new full cartridges, old ones will do.
As long as they are recognised by the printer.
I insert an old cartridge and wait until it does the cartridge
alignment. The put in a second one and do the same.
The printer only remembers 2 cartridge S/N so after 2 you can put the
refilled cartridgr back in and it is showing as full.
Just as long as you don't use Vista or Win 7 which only have basic
printer drivers with any ability to check ink level.

DJT

Same here, except that I use Linux almost exclusively. I don't have
experience with the Windows drivers above Windows 2000, but I can tell
you that the Linux drivers are much better than the ones I've seen about
getting ink levels from the printer. With W2K, a dialog box will open,
warning me about the ink levels - but they are usually the levels stored
from some other time. If I print a second run, the levels jump to the
proper values.

Linux doesn't do that. It will check the levels for me and report them
only if I ask, and they are the correct values. But of course the
difference is simply because driver development was closed for older
Windows versions long ago, while Linux driver development is still active.

TJ

 

[Dave C.]

On 03/23/2010 07:31 PM, DJT wrote:> I refill HP 56&  57 on a regular basis and used to refill HP97. I keep


Same here, except that I use Linux almost exclusively. I don't have
experience with the Windows drivers above Windows 2000, but I can tell
you that the Linux drivers are much better than the ones I've seen about
getting ink levels from the printer. With W2K, a dialog box will open,
warning me about the ink levels - but they are usually the levels stored
from some other time. If I print a second run, the levels jump to the
proper values.

Linux doesn't do that. It will check the levels for me and report them
only if I ask, and they are the correct values. But of course the
difference is simply because driver development was closed for older
Windows versions long ago, while Linux driver development is still active..

TJ

I will have to accumulate a few more cartridges. I have the one I
refilled, a new one on the shelf and I'll have to pick up another one
sometime.

Thanks,

Dave C.