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According to the "Ink Level display', magenta was at about 10% or 15%, cyan was at 0% and yellow was at about 95%. Black is about 25%.
I replaced the cyan cartridge and before I can even print a single page, magenta level is reported at 0% and again I cannot print.
Can you explain how the magenta level can go from 10% to 0% by simply changing the cyan cartridge? if there was ink in the magenta cartridge before the cyan cartridge was changed, why isn't there ink in the magenta cartridge after the cyan cartridge was changed?

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Hey @ellioto,

 

I see that you are having some issues with the ink level reporting on your Officejet Pro 8600 e-All-in-One Printer. I can help you with that.

 

What is happening is the gauges are showing you an approximation of how much ink is remaining in each cartridge. When you replaced the cyan cartridge, the printer needed to align, which uses ink. At that point the printer detected that the magenta cartridge was low. Replacing the magenta cartridge should clear the error message.

 

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Hey @ellioto,

 

I see that you are having some issues with the ink level reporting on your Officejet Pro 8600 e-All-in-One Printer. I can help you with that.

 

What is happening is the gauges are showing you an approximation of how much ink is remaining in each cartridge. When you replaced the cyan cartridge, the printer needed to align, which uses ink. At that point the printer detected that the magenta cartridge was low. Replacing the magenta cartridge should clear the error message.

 

Please let me know if this answers your question. If it does, please click on Accept Solution. If you appreciate my help, please click on the thumbs up icon. Both icons are below this post.

~DocCottle
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Ridiculous that the printer uses up so much ink just doing an alinment that it empties the cartridge.  I guess it is what it is.  Very disappointing.

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