I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but this is almost certainly a cartridge/head issue. After all, inkjet printers are designed to sell ink 🤣
I’ve always had excellent results with HPLIP driving inkjets from mint so I doubt it is that. I assume you can dual boot into windows and try printing the document from there? On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 at 18:14, CA Wills <ci...@cewland.uk> wrote: > Happy New Year to All > > Sorry to miss the meeting but had family here for Christmas and Tuesday > was last day. > > Have a problem with my HP Colour Inkjet 309a. > Today printed 1 lot of 10 copies of letter with a colour picture, all > OK. Printed second lot of 10 and they started to print the picture in a > shade of green. Stopped the run and tried several different options to > no effect. Even tried printing as 'greyscale' Black & White ans still > got a lighter shade of green. > This has happened before just recently. > Checked printer cartridges and printer reports OK but computer reports > 'out of ink'! The HPLIP GUI does not report any ink levels. > Running Mint 21.1 latest version, hoped that would sort it out but no > change. Printer switched off twice, System reset, re installed printer; > no change Happens on both laptop & desktop machines. > Any idea's as to what's happening please. Is it the printer problem (to > old!) or possible the cartridges playing up? Printer drum but it's an > Inkjet not laser. > -- > Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2023-02-07 20:00 > Check to whom you are replying > Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk > New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk > -- Sent from my iPhone -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2023-02-07 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
