Comments on: How to reset HP ink cartridge expiration DRM

Comment on How to reset HP ink cartridge expiration DRM by: Ken Kal

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:59:22 +0000

I’ve spent hours looking but cannot find a rest for the D5160 HP #98 and #95 ink cartridges after a refill. There’s a lo out there but none for my printer or those cartidges. Anyone have a way to do this.
Thanks. Ken

Comment on How to reset HP ink cartridge expiration DRM by: DALLAS BROWN

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:17:44 +0000

I HAVE D1415 HP DESKJET AFTER REFILL USUALLY SECOND TIME OF CARTRIDGE COLOR HP22 I CANNOT GET RED COLOR ON PRINTS, EVENTHOUGH THERE IS MAGENTA PRESENT ON THE PRINTHEAD OF THE CARTRIDGE, PROMINANT RED STREAK. I THINK IT IS THE PRINTER NOT RECOGNIZING OR ALLOWING RED COLOR TO BE PRINTED. ANYONE HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS.

Comment on How to reset HP ink cartridge expiration DRM by: Gilbert

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:12:36 +0000

Bethann,
I didn’t reattach the battery. I’m still getting the original print cartridge error message. I’m about to go get a new printer I think.

Comment on How to reset HP ink cartridge expiration DRM by: Bethann

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:02:17 +0000

Thanks Gilbert…man, I was trying to take the whole machine apart! If you broke off one of the soldered tabs, how did you get it connected again? But then again, if the same message came up again, we can’t keep taking the darn thing apart! Argh!

Thanks again!
Bethann

Comment on How to reset HP ink cartridge expiration DRM by: Gilbert

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:20:13 +0000

Bethann, I found the battery in my 5510 after posting. If you take a small mirror and a flashlight you will be able to see it. Unplug the power cord. Hold the mirror inside the front where the ink cartridges are and point the light and mirror so you can see behind the front left panel, looking toward the bottom. You will see red and black twisted wires. Right next to where they attach the battery is soldered to connectors on the board. I reached in and pulled on the battery with a finger and just got it to move a little bit, then pushed it back. Repeated tries eventually broke one of the soldered tabs off the battery.

This corected the problem last week. But now it says “print cartridge error” again

Does anyone have other ideas?

Guru, I do not completely understand your solution. What is the chip on the cartridge?

Comment on How to reset HP ink cartridge expiration DRM by: Guru

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:46:13 +0000

Hi everyone HP Cartridge expiration problem solved

Model : HP Business Inkjet 1000 series

Problem : Cartridge Expired

Solution : Normally you can’t override cartridge expiration date problem but you can hack and overcome from the problem. As per the documents from the web saying this model can remember up to 3 cartridge of one particular colour. Normally each cartridge will expired within 2 1/2 years.

Mine also expired. To disable the link level feedback to system you have to unplug some cables inside of the printer. So you have to search web for that. I was also refilled the cartridge and reuse it upto 2 1/2 years. After that my 4 ink cartridges were expired and refuse to print even the ink levels were good.

How to overcome this problem. HP the International company’s cartridge protection technology having some loop hole in their protection. They want more business than what they are selling. They don’t like people refill and use their cartridge. They want to force the user to buy new cartridge get more profit.

Normally the each cartridges portion in the printer recognize and memorize the chip bottom of the each cartridge. For example the black cartridge part the printer recognize the chip fixed bottom inside the black cartridge. It won’t check or memorize the other color cartridge chips.

I just removed the chip of the black using a nice blade and swap the chip of the pink (double side glue is used to paste the cartridge chip. You have to very carefully do this. Otherwise chip will damage). Do the same trick to other two cartridge. After you swap note down which cartridges you swaped and keep it in safe place. Later it is useful to swap it again. Better swap (1 and 2) (3 and 4). At least you can swap and use the cartridge for 10 years.

Other model of Business inkjet you have to try it yourself. It may work. Best of luck.

Comment on How to reset HP ink cartridge expiration DRM by: Bethann

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:10:44 +0000

I also need help finding the battery for my 5510, and also, how to take some of those screws out!!! We’ve tried to find some schematic drawings, but so far, cannot. We can’t seem to find a hex key to fit some of them. We were wondering if that is another of HP’s ways of controlling how we depend on buying new models instead of fixing them! Thanks for the help!!!

Comment on How to reset HP ink cartridge expiration DRM by: Gilbert

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:59:23 +0000

I cannot find the battery in my Hp 5510. Can anyone help me?

Comment on How to reset HP ink cartridge expiration DRM by: Ron Z

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:07:00 +0000

In step 49 above:
You have to do these steps prior to every time you print.
It takes a little more time to print - but it does work..
This will cancel the printing/cartridge error - allowing printing that one job.
How about Mister Sym (step 43) above - did you get a chance to check out your theory yet? please let us know..

Comment on How to reset HP ink cartridge expiration DRM by: Ron Z

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:26:16 +0000

To reset HP officejet 6310 cartridges:
1) from front panel press *# simultaneously follow by 3,2,9.
2)press right arrow until Special Report displays then press OK.
3) press right arrow until Print Cartridge displays then press OK —then print (it’s best to press print before above steps - then before report page is printed - press cancel - you’ll just get a blank page after your print job is finished.

Comment on How to reset HP ink cartridge expiration DRM by: christophe

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:16:21 +0000

The cartridge are also incompatible (DIFFERENT IDs) between countries. although they are the same . this is a real scam
as they are in fact the exact same thing.

I bought a printer in Canada C3100 series and brought it to Japan only to find out I could not use the Local cartridges and could not buy the North American #92 black cartridge here either .

Has anyone found a way to write to the cartridge from the printer ? or is it not at all possible ?

Comment on How to reset HP ink cartridge expiration DRM by: Greg

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:02:46 +0000

I tried this from inkitsales.com and low and behold it printed a few pages Ink cartirdges hp #10 and #11

TO RESET the chip in the cartridge follow this procedure:
Step 1: Using normal tape cover the the black bulb in the center of the bottom of the cartridge( located on the mylar bag).
Step 2: Give a little bit of a sag (dimple the tape into the cartridge a little ) this should fool the printer into thinking this is a new cartridge.
Step 3: Reset the cartridge. Or install as if it were a new cartridge

Comment on How to reset HP ink cartridge expiration DRM by: max gavez

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:54:18 +0000

Dear sirs:
Does the 8250 has a batery to reset it??
thanks

Comment on How to reset HP ink cartridge expiration DRM by: Beth

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:03:10 +0000

Help! Does anyone know how to reset/override the sudden rejection of HP ink for #92 and 93 cartridges?

I think it happens when it has reached near the exp. date, but the cartridge (currently the black #92) is fairly new but still much ink. This has happened numerous times. My printer is the HP PSC 1510xi - which works GREAT except for the ink thing. I have tried applying the info for the #56 or 57 cartridges (look the same) except the electrical contacts are a little different.

Thank you to anyone who can help!

Comment on How to reset HP ink cartridge expiration DRM by: Heng

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:33:36 +0000

I just bought and brought back a HP Photosmart C4280 All-in-one printer and some spare cartridge from the States. I am just wondering if anyone out there can tell me how to reset the HP74 and HP75 ink cartridges after I refill them? Refilling them is easy, getting them to work again in the printer is not. (

Thank you in advance for your hints.

Comment on How to reset HP ink cartridge expiration DRM by: MisterSym

Sat, 10 May 2008 07:49:53 +0000

For those of you who have researched this BEFORE installing any new or replacement cartridges, I think I’ve got a method to let you use those first cartridges for the life of the printer. (Untested….pure theory at this point.)

BEFORE INSTALLING THE INK CARTRIDGES, you want to do the following:
1. Set your PC clock ahead 10 or 20 years.
2. Reboot both PC and printer.
3. Install new cartridges.
4. Start using printer.
5. Set your PC clock back to the correct date.

My theory is that this should register the install date for those particular cartridges (in the printer memory) as 10 or 20 years in the future. If the printer is programmed to “expire” cartridges after a certain period of time (say, one year), the expiration won’t occur on your new cartridges until 11 or 21 years later.

You should be able to refill the existing cartridges indefinitely, throughout the life of at least the cartridge, if not the life of the printer itself.

Again, this is pure conjecture at this point. It relies on the people at HP not foreseeing this problem, or snidely thinking that we, as consumers, are too stupid to think of this solution. I will test out my theory when I get my new HP Officejet 5610 delivered soon. I will post back here when I know if it works. Wish me luck. It will save us all a lot of BS if it works.

Comment on How to reset HP ink cartridge expiration DRM by: Dave

Thu, 01 May 2008 19:12:48 +0000

Hmmm…Searched around the net,but no one has yet cracked refilling/resetting the 350ee/351ee/348 type carts for the Photosmart 5280,or at least have a simple solution.As it appears the printer only holds 2 cart serial nos in its memory,(and as its under warranty I`m not removing batteries),it would seem to me that if you use three carts,(expensive I know),and number them,by the time you change the 3rd cart,the first one`s serial no. has dropped from its memory.You can then refill the first, and use it when the 3rd cart is exhausted,since the serial no is no longer in memory!Unless HP do the dirty,and use flash memory to hold all your carts serials….b*****ds.I haven`t tried it yet,let me know if it works,its only my theory,but will try it as soon as my carts run dry.Seems to me it might work on most HP printers,without major surgery…The expiration date problem I will try with my Epson resetter..thanks!

Comment on How to reset HP ink cartridge expiration DRM by: Dave

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:31:16 +0000

Ye Gods! I`ve just bought an HP Photosmart 5280.Works ok,does all it sez on the packet,but…ink price cost must affect the National Budget,so much English £££ are going to abroad to HP!My old Epson 810 had the Intellidge cartridge chip intended to screw me by not letting me refill the carts,but I screwed Epson by finding a utility called SSCserve,(Google for it).This utility reset the chip in software after refilling,simple.Am trying to find a similar utility for the HP,let you all know if I find one.Cheap carts can be found at www.digitalpromo.co.uk all they are all high capacity. Might try the battery trick after the guarantee runs out…

Comment on How to reset HP ink cartridge expiration DRM by: GEO

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:35:41 +0000

I have a HP photosmart 2710 with 95 ink cartridges. I refilled them with the off the shelf ink kits from office depot and they worked for a day or so and then it comes up to replace the cartridges. I have looked everywhere for a solution to reset the cartridges and even the battery on board. Opened the case and couldnt find the battery. Any suggestions out there to how i can get this to work? Thanks for Looking!!

Comment on How to reset HP ink cartridge expiration DRM by: Tom

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:23:29 +0000

Designjet 5500 …

Does anyone know how to find the battery or reset the expiration on ink for this plotter?

Thanks