

There’s a chance that the ink cartridge itself has some electronic problem that’s invisible to the naked eye. Some of the contacts are facing upward or pointing up, so I recommend that you be careful to ensure that there are no bits of cloth left on the contacts after cleaning. Open your HP printer, find the contacts inside and then with a clean lint-free cloth. If the problem persists even after cleaning the ink cartridge contacts, then you may need to clean the contacts inside the printer as well.

Try following any of the three potential solutions to common ink cartridge problems below. And more often than not, the problems are easy and require simple fixes that you can do independently. Although there are numerous ways to deal with this problem, most of the solution lies on your ink cartridges.
