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your print head is almost definitely completely clogged with dried up ink... you should always keep using your printer... never leave it for long periods unused if you don't want these troubles all the time....

Not familiar with lexmark printers though...

that sort of thing happens to epson printers really often.
Epson i would recommend for super high quality prints, but i reckon something like a canon is more reliable in the long run.

If you are lucky you can fix it by cleaning the print head... (there is normally a "clean print head option in the printer properties")
you probably need to do this at least 50 times before you notice any change... i had to do that on my last epsom printer. in the end i just gave up and got myself a new canon.

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Originally posted by gif83
If you are lucky you can fix it by cleaning the print head... (there is normally a "clean print head option in the printer properties")
you probably need to do this at least 50 times before you notice any change.

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50 That will take ages! But i'll see what happens i guess..

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Originally posted by chris4
50 That will take ages! But i'll see what happens i guess..

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that's why i gave up

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.. holdng the bottom of the cartride in warm water or alcohol can clean it out...

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does this really works cuz my color cartridge isnt workin..it gives me an error that says its not workin and tells me to take it out and put it back in but the same prob occurs

i duno. it does help for most cardriges that are dry. but if your printer is reporting an error it might be something else wrong.

Hmm, I might try that. Thanks

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Originally posted by chris4

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Originally posted by WDZ
Have you tried the cleaning feature? Go into the maintenance window and click the "clean" button. It will print a test page that supposedly helps clean the ink jets.

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Thanks, but I already said..

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Originally posted by chris4

I've printed lodes of test pages and stuff, but still no use.

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the cleaning feature is diffrent that test pages...it does do alot. i had 3 or 4 white lines through my printed text and the cleaning feature fixed it...but ur promblem is starting to sound more like ink than printer

Well yeah.. it is to do with the ink cartridges. As said above, they have most proberly dried out.

actually... no... not related to the print cartridges... the print head is a separate thing... even if you use new cartridges it will not work... sorry for all the dots.......

Erm, ok.. so what do you reccomend I do?