dgsmith Posted November 19, 2008 Posted November 19, 2008 We have a dreaded HP Colour Laserjet 2600n (in fact quite alot of them), and with one particular one, it seems the colours have become misaligned (the black is fine). I have been through extensive testing and calibrating (I have calibrated several times per one recommendation), and even done a full calibration through the secondary service menu (pressing the ready button, then left arrow and cancel together), yet this hasn't worked. One the toners needed replacing which I did, as well as reseating the other colour toners and doing another calibration, all to no avail. As a last resort, I did a full factory default reset on the printer and reconfigured the network settings, and this still hasn't worked. Very frustrating and I am all out of ideas! Anyone else had this and could shed some light?
mikeymike Posted November 19, 2008 Posted November 19, 2008 how old is the printer and does it get much use. I had one of these do similar to me a while back and nothing worked. So a professional printer engineer was called and he confirmed that basically its had its day and to repair would not really be worth it.
dgsmith Posted November 19, 2008 Author Posted November 19, 2008 I wouldn't mind, but it's only printed 7550 pages exact figure reported by web gui), and was bought only 18 months ago! We have many more of these around the school, most bought before this and printed alot more pages which aren't suffering this problem. I know it was a cheap printer.. but to do this after 7550 pages.. I cannot believe for 1 moment..
dhicks Posted November 19, 2008 Posted November 19, 2008 I know it was a cheap printer... Check and see just how cheap. I bet buying a full set of replacement HP toner cartridges costs as much / more than a new printer... -- David Hicks
plexer Posted November 20, 2008 Posted November 20, 2008 What do you mean by missaligned any chance of pictures? Ben
dgsmith Posted November 20, 2008 Author Posted November 20, 2008 Quick picture of a test page I took (not best quality I know). I genuinelly have tried all the calibration and reseating to no avail, which I would have thought would certainly fix this. dhicks, you're right in that is costs £160 for a full set of OEM carts, and £120 for a full set of reman carts, and the reman carts price cost us just a few £££ less than the printer did when we first bought it (albeit with "starter" carts). It would be extremely difficult to justify printer replacement after just over a year...
plexer Posted November 20, 2008 Posted November 20, 2008 It's not a paper feed or transfer belt problem is it? Ben
dgsmith Posted November 20, 2008 Author Posted November 20, 2008 Black prints fine - near perfect in fact (what I would expect) - it's just the colours, so i'd have thought paper or feeder would affect transfer of any toner? Although the picture is blurry, that is because I was doing it quickly - the actual print quality is fine - just the alignment of the windows logo with the colours.
plexer Posted November 20, 2008 Posted November 20, 2008 True because it is a single pass printer. I just read somewhere that the HP fix time for these is 30 minutes if it can't be fixed in that time it's a replacement printer if they are under warranty. Are you using oem or remanafactured carts? Ben
dgsmith Posted November 20, 2008 Author Posted November 20, 2008 A mix really.. never had any issues with remans in the other 2600n's.. most of which have been longer in service and printed more over that time. I think the warranty is 12months from new, which it will be out of by now.. bummer! 7500 pages.. that's just sickening :x
dgsmith Posted November 25, 2008 Author Posted November 25, 2008 I can't believe we're the only ones here to have experienced this If there really is no hope, is there a way this printer can be used mono-only without having to have colour carts in there? The mono works fine, so it would be a shame to dispose of it when that part works flawless.
plexer Posted November 25, 2008 Posted November 25, 2008 Can you not set the driver to b&w only then?
dgsmith Posted November 25, 2008 Author Posted November 25, 2008 (edited) I was more wondering if we could set the printer to print regardless of colour toner left (so we can put empties in). I think some driver settings can be adjusted by the students and we'd need a mono only driver for this to be effective, even though it would be pointless for them to try colour! Edited November 25, 2008 by dgsmith
plexer Posted November 25, 2008 Posted November 25, 2008 To block chips press green button for main Menu Menu •Right arrow to System Configuration, confirm with green button •Right arrow to Print Quality, confirm with green button •Right arrow to Substitute Suplies, confirm with green button •Right arrow to Ignore empty and confirm with green button Taken from Resetting of chip for hp toner Q6000A - Do-It-Yourself InkJet and Laser Printer Repair (HP, Apple, Epson, and More) - fixyourownprinter.com Ben 1
geosave Posted June 30, 2009 Posted June 30, 2009 This is how you calibrate the printer colors: HP Color LaserJet 2600n - Calibrating the printer - c00314525 - HP Business Support Center George Schneider, MCSE We have a dreaded HP Colour Laserjet 2600n (in fact quite alot of them), and with one particular one, it seems the colours have become misaligned (the black is fine). I have been through extensive testing and calibrating (I have calibrated several times per one recommendation), and even done a full calibration through the secondary service menu (pressing the ready button, then left arrow and cancel together), yet this hasn't worked. One the toners needed replacing which I did, as well as reseating the other colour toners and doing another calibration, all to no avail. As a last resort, I did a full factory default reset on the printer and reconfigured the network settings, and this still hasn't worked. Very frustrating and I am all out of ideas! Anyone else had this and could shed some light?
AndyR Posted January 20, 2010 Posted January 20, 2010 This is how you calibrate the printer colors: George Schneider, MCSE Actually that's how the printer calibrates itself. The problem is that the self calibration isn't working. I'm having the same problem at one of my Liverpool schools. The printer is only a few months old and has started messing up on the colour. Print out a photo and the colour starts together and the gradually spreads out the further down you go. Here's a link I've found to one of the HP forums that might help, or might not as no success has been registered there. (Ok I can't post the link in my first post, so I'll add it after this.) Still it shows that it seems to be a common problem amongst those printers. Although even without that fault they never really impressed me. Andy
AndyR Posted January 20, 2010 Posted January 20, 2010 (Ok I can't post the link in my first post, so I'll add it after this.) IT Resource Center forums - Color LaserJet 2600N Out of Alignment Here you go.
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