c4480 incompatible ink cartridge

[EvSy]

Totally non-intuitive...but it worked great!  Thanks!

[DKOLT]

Printer was working fine with DATA Products cartridges then all of a sudden would not print in color with a notification of incompatible cartridges. Purchased new HP cartridges and could not print photos with a notation that I only had a black ink cartridge and needed a tri color cartridge which I had installed. I ran a little test by attaching a photo to an Email and addressed it to myself. When I recieved it I had the printer make me a color copy and it did so without a problem indicating the cartridges were just fine. The problem still persists when attempting to print down loaded pictures. HP updates my computer software on a weekly basis and the difficulty occured following an update. Where do I go from here?

[wjesse]

I found it, I found it

At least on my XP...all the other solutions are good for one page, then you're back to square one.

 Try this.  pull up a singe page that you could print, and click 'print'.  Then click 'preferences', and on the chart, find and click 'factory settings'.  Too simple to work?  I worked just fine on mine.

[lhenry7735]

I am not having this same experience.  If I buy HP Black Inc #74 my printer works great.

[RHJ48]

I did have this experience and found that the solution suggested at the very beginning of this thread worked beautifully.  Make sure you press the color buttons in the correct order.

Re: c4480 incompatible ink cartridge

12-08-2011 01:41 PM

Hy. I have found a different solution for c4480 "incopatible cartrige". it worked for me so i hope it works for you to Steps: 1. Press X power at the same time 2. Press BLUE, GREEN, GRAY 3. press BLUE until you see "INFORMATION MENU" 4. press OK 5. Press Blue until you see "CHECKSUM FOR RELOCK DATA INPUT" 6. OK 7. Press X until you exit all menius 8. When promted for aliement cancel it with X. It should bypass the error