My printer wont print. I bought new Kodak ink but it did not work

A typical problem that people with Kodak printers encounter is difficulty with printing after inserting a replacement ink cartridge. If you have tried to print a colour document and only some or none of the ink are printing then it would be a good idea to follow the steps below:

1. Firstly remove all the ink cartridges from the printer.
2. Check to make sure that any tape has been removed from the cartridges.
3. Clean the contact, this is the small hole where the ink comes out as well in the printer itself, a cotton bud can be a useful tool for this. You can clean the contacts on the ink cartridge with a small amount of warm water on the cotton bud.
4. If some of the cartridges are low, replace them with new cartridges.
5. Next, turn off the printer and leave switched off for 2 minutes.
6. Insert the ink cartridges and see if this has helped clear the problem.
7. If you have some of your old original brand Kodak ink to hand you can try these in an effort to see if it is the compatibles that are causing the problem.
8. If the original cartridges fail to work then the issue is likely to be with the printer and not the ink cartridges.
9. Running the head-cleaning procedure might help if the genuine cartridges work but the compatibles do not.

All of the suggestions above are designed to find the faulty cartridges by a process of elimination. Good quality Kodak compatible ink cartridges generally are problem free but from time to time there may be issues with cartridges drying up through infrequent use. It’s a good idea to run a document through the printer from time to time to keep the ink cartridge ‘fresh’ and the ink flowing.

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