I have an x6150 and it had been working fine. I ran out of ink and replaced the cartridge not too long ago. I printed a few items (not much) and all of a sudden when I hit print, it acts like it is printing but nothing appears. So, I uninstalled the drivers and reinstalled them. IN addition I unplugged everything and started fresh and even took out the cartridges and put them back in. The black cartridge feels very full. It should as it is new. Nothing appears on the page when I hit the print button.

Lexmark Printers Doesnt work well with Refilled Cartridges they never work.

But your Lucky enough to atleast get Blue Printed!!!!!!

Good Luck!!!!!

Try to do the Clean Cartridge function using the control panel on your printer. 1. Press Copy. 2. Press Options until Maintenance appears on the display. 3. Press the right arrow until Clean Cartridges appears on the display. 4. Press Select. A nozzle page prints, forcing ink through the nozzles to clean the clogged nozzles. 5. Print your document again to verify that your print quality has improved.
If problem continues and it's beyond return period, please contact Lexmark technical support for additional assistance.
Source: Lexmark X6100 Series User's Guide

You printer probably needs to be reset. First, remove both cartridges from the printer. Unplug the power adapter from the back of your printer(small black box behind your printer where the power cord is attached)

(model shown may not be your printer, however, the steps are the same)
Wait for at 10 seconds before reinserting the power adapter back into the printer. When the printer turns on and looks for the cartridges, reinsert both cartridges. Let it print the test paper again. Then try to print your document again to check if it's working now.

Use only original ink cartriges, the non original has ink normaly is not for you printer, and you wast your money and damage the printer print-head

Did you remove the cartridges when it went out of ink? If so, the printer head is clogged. Anyway, If you didn't remove the cartridges and the "a while ago" means "Long time ago", is more likely the printer head is clogged. You may need to run the "cleaning printer head" feature from the printer or replace the printer head.

Inkjet printers should be used frequently to avoid this issue.

My Canon printer has TWO slots for black ink cartridges. I assumed one was extra and didn't replace it when I ran out. Text printed just fine with only one installed, but my photos were printing with purple instead of black. I looked into it, and the two cartridges are different: one holds dye-based ink, the other has pigment based. Photos must require both kinds. If your printer is the same as mine, use both!

I fixed my friends printer, Lexmark x6150 which had the same error and symptoms. The registration strip might be out of its so called slot but I doubt it.

Get several cotton balls and a bottle of rubbing alcohol. Turn off the printer. Soak a cotton ball, not dripping or saturated with the alcohol. Clean the paper path ( area underneath where the print cartridge carrier travels back and forth over the paper. ) This area becomes coated with ink and gets sticky, Clean the area until all ink is removed, you will use many cotton balls, continue until clean. Check the carrier parked area. You will note 2 rubber boots, 1 for each ink cartridge, make certain they are clean as well. They seal the cartridges so they don't dry out.

Complete the following instructions:

1. Power off your All-in-One.
2. Use both hands to lift up the scanner unit until the scanner support holds it open.
3. Turn the All-in-One on. The print cartridge carrier moves and stops at the loading position, unless the All-in-One is busy.
4. Remove the color print cartridge.
5. Lower the scanner unit until it is completely closed.
6. If the error message reappears, replace the black print cartridge with a new print cartridge.
   If it does not repeat steps 1-3 and then go to step 7.
7. Reinstall the color cartridge and remove the black print cartridge.
8. Lower the scanner unit until it is completely closed.
9. If the error message occurs again, replace the color cartridge.
10. If an error message reappears, repeat steps 1-3 and reinstall both print cartridges.
11. Lower the scanner unit until it is completely closed.
12. If you receive the error message again, replace both cartridges.

I had the same problem. I was using original brand cartridges and it was still not working. Here's how I got it to work. I recommend doing each step and then trying to print a test page to see if it is working.

1. I used a Q-tip with Isopropyl Alcohol and cleaned the gold contacts on both the cartridge and the mating contacts in the printer.

2. Then from the Setup Menu, I found a menu called Tools. From there I ran "Align Print Cartridges".

3. From the same menu I also ran "Clean Print Cartridges"

4. I then ran a few test prints by going into the Setup Menu and then choosing "Print Report" and then selecting "Self-Test Report". It prints grid patterns in black & white as well as magenta, yellow and blue. The black grid pattern had some missing lines until I printed this report a few times.

5. I made a few photocopies and now the printouts no longer have large stripes of missing ink as it did in the earlier steps.

Good luck. Hope this helps.

I had the same problem with the yellow cartridge. Yellow quit printing, put in a new yellow and still would not print yellow. I had a help file, don't know where I got it, but it suggested replacing the black ink cartridge also, even though the black wasn't low yet. Replaced the black, ran a few nozzle cleans and everything worked fine. Don't know why. Try it