Printer not used for one year

[Matabel]

Have a HP Officejet 6700. Was not used for 1 year and catridges were removed. Will it stil be operational?

[banhien]

Hi,

This is depending on how did you store ink and printer itself therefore very hard to say. All you can do now is to take a puch: put inks back  (if they were not dry out) and run thru few cleaning cycles or use new inks (compare cost with a new printer).

Regards.

[Bob_Headrick]

Likely the printer will not work after a year with the cartridges removed.  The Officejet 6700 has a permanent printhead and separate ink supplies. By removing the ink cartridges there is a path for the printhead to dry out, this can be very difficult to recover.

It may be possible to recover the printhead, but I would not have a lot of hope.  Put the cartridges back in the printer and let the printer sit overnight powered on.  The next day try running a series of printhead cleaning cycles from the front panel, then print a test page.  Does the printer print at all?  The troubleshooting steps in the document here may help.  Note the warning in Step 4 (too late for your case, but keep in mind for the future):

I did have an Officejet Pro 8600 Plus that I bought as a backup.  I tried it out, verified that things were working properly, then put it in storage (with the cartridges installed) for just over a year.  I was surprised when putting the printer back in service that it printed a nozzle pattern completely without any problems and without any manual cleaning cycles required.