I have all in one Photosmart C7280. I am trying to make color copies and they are not coming out in the right color (ie blue is coming out pink); I have changed all the ink cartridges except for the black since I knew it was new. Can you help!

Sounds very much like you have a clogged printer head you should run the deep clean procedure form the printer dialog. If that does not fix the issue you may need to replace the print head.

Please take a look at this illustrated picture:


Left = Black (Copy)
Right = Color (Copy).

If you have problem, let me know.

Good Luck.

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Use the HP Printing Assistant software to run a "nozzle check" -- to ensure that each of the 3 ink-jets is not CLOGGED, and therefore is not jetting ink onto the paper. If necessary, run 3 (or 6) "head-cleaning" cycles.

Then, try a different tri-colour ink-cartridge.

you need to make sure all your ink cartridges are full, if they are, I would take them out and put them back in and rerun alignment

1. Unplug power cable while the printer is ON.
2. Press and hold the '#' and '3' buttons, and plug the cable back into the printer.
3. Continue holding the buttons down for 20 seconds, and then release it.

if doesn't initialize successfully repeat
on step 2 press and hold the '#' and '6' button and plug in the power cable.

check the print cartridge contacts see if they are blocked. It may be a clogged print head.

Please upgrade your IE 7 to IE 8, reinstall the HP software for your printer. IE 8 available from Microsoft at no charge.

I hope this works for you.

Does the c7280 use seperate Magenta and PhotoMagenta cartridges? If so make certain the right cartridge is in the correct slot.

Clicked on Start/Control Panel/PrinterI. Clicked Add a printer. Obtained (Copy 1) of my HP Photosmart C7280 all-in-one printer. Right clicked on (Copy 1)/properties. Opened Ports tab. Saw comment "Print to the following Ports. Documents will print to the first free checked port." A listed USB Virtual printer port, showed three printers -- my first printer, my copy 1 (& my fax printer) -- was unchecked. I placed a checkmark in this Port box. Both the original printer, and my copy 1 printer are printing just fine. *I have not checked to verify that my fax is functional.
I did rename the original "color". I renamed Copy 1 as "grayscale", and --under printer preferences, checked, under "color options", to print in greyscale.

Color Cartridge problem, low on cyan ink...