Z3200-ink-

[Ernst Dinkla]

Noooo way! Looks so lame on HP! Is that because by the time the 3200 was launched such large cartridges were not available or is it just poor product design?

Prints are fine. If I could paint them as good with a barge pole I wouldn't mind either. Yes, at that time nobody thought about 300ml carts.

Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst

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[deanwork]

If you do production work on the Z you should do it. My printers are covered when not in use so why would one care what they look like.

Thanks for the pics . Ernst. Great.

I don’t understand why the light gray name is scratched out changed though.

When the Z3100 was designed （ they used the same exact case for z3200) they were ever designed for commercial mass production as far as I can see and wanted to keep the size and weight as small as possible. But I agree it would have been smart to accomidate bigger carts with the 3200. Initially for many years they offered a “twin pack” of two carts of the same color at a discount price. Made me mad when they discontinued that offer. I believe it was about that time that Ernst searched for a way to get around that issue, and it worked.

Noooo way! Looks so lame on HP! Is that because by the time the 3200 was launched such large cartridges were not available or is it just poor product design?

[Ernst Dinkla]

I don’t understand why the light gray name is scratched out changed though.

There is no 772 cart with Gray ink.  With several Gray 70 carts 3/4 used left and some full but expired it was easier to clean a Light Grey 772 cart and make it a Gray 300 ML one. The one pictured was used and discarded, I fished it from the waste bin and laid caps to it for illustration. It went back into the waste bin.


Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst

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[Larry451]

Greetings:  My new green cart came yesterday and when I installed it I got the same message as before "replace G cartridge".
My thoughts now are:  something is wrong with the internal chip reader?
any suggestions ?
regards
Larry.

[Mark Lindquist]

Greetings:  My new green cart came yesterday and when I installed it I got the same message as before "replace G cartridge".
My thoughts now are:  something is wrong with the internal chip reader?
any suggestions ?
regards
Larry.

Try this:

Shut printer down.  Unplug. Pull all carts, put them in a freezer bag and use the opportunity to shake them well.
Turn printer back on. Wait until it asks for a cartridge. Put the green one in first.  See what happens.
It will either accept it or not. If it accepts it, there will be a beep and a message saying thanks for using HP genuine inks.
Next replace all the cartridges, then see if it goes on to initialize.  If so, you may be good to go. Or it will give you the replace G Cartridge message.

If not, you could have a print mech board issue.

Try the replace all inks first and see what gives.

Best,

Mark

[Larry451]

Hi, Mark 
 shut it down unplugged.  removed the carts + shaken.... started the printer, it initialized then asked for carts..  green first seemed OK.. added the rest then it told me green needed replacing, tried my other new G cart... same message "replace faulty cart"
Looks like I have problems with the internal board?

regards
Larry.

[Mark Lindquist]

That’s my guess but it could be IDS too - hard to say.

[Larry451]

Greetings:    I spent just over 2 hrs on the phone with tech support about my z3200..  Looks like something is wrong with an internal board, so they will be sending a support person out next week to fix the printer on site.  Hurray !!
thanks for all the online help
regards
Larry.

[Larry451]

Finally--- a month later + it took the tech 3 visits in which he replaced everything that has to do with the ink.  I now have my Z3200 working again.
initially it was the green cart which he fixed on the first visit but then the red cart started to smear ink and after two repair visits he replaced everything on the right side of the printer including the board.
I'm certainly going to buy the extended warranty for my printer since I live over 3 hrs. from support, but,  bottom line it sure feels good to be printing again.
regards
Larry.

[William Chitham]

The cartridge compartment lids can not be closed, not something I worry about.

Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst

Been bugging me for ages, finally took a saw to it.

William.

[dgberg]

I have a question on replacing the 772 cart chip with the 70 chip.
Can the chip be pulled off the 70 cart when the ink is at any level?
Plan on start getting some 772 carts but need to know if I can just pull a chip off my 70 empties.
Or is a chip resetter required?

[William Chitham]

In my experience you can just pull them off the empties, no chip rest required. I used to try to do it just before the 70 was reported empty but I missed it last time and it still worked fine.

William.

[dgberg]

Thanks William.
Will it read the correct amount of ink that is in the 772 cart? Or do you get no reading at all?

[John Nollendorfs]

Dan:
You do not need to pull the chip itself off, but remove the whole cap by slicing the paper label on either side.
And no, it will not read the correct amount remaining, but periodic checking of the cart by pulling it out of the printer works just fine.

[William Chitham]

The printer won't report the level of the 772 and the status will say something like "Very Low" or sometimes "Altered". I make a note of the total usage to date of the ink in question when I load a new 772 so that I can keep an eye on it's level without pulling it and weighing it.

William.