Solution to HP InkJet printer continuous printing test pages

If your printer is printing test pages nonstop and you don’t know what’s causing this or how to stop it, this is the post for you.

This is what Hewlett-Packard has developed to find out when ink cartridges have run out and to stop the printer from printing any more sheets.

Now why does this happen when I turn to refill my ink cartridges or when you turn your printer on? This issue occurs when you take out an ink cartridge from the printer since the printer has a way of knowing a cartridge has been removed or installed in it.

printer hp test page

The device will print this test sheet every time you remove one of its ink cartridges and put it back inside, regardless of it being filled with ink or not.

This test sheet will let you know if the ink cartridge has run out or is printing blurry, letting you see how the ink exits the cartridge itself.

This picture shows what this particular test sheet looks like, remember this is only an example and that test sheets can vary depending on your printer’s brand or model.

Now you may be wondering why are there so many lines on this page, as it turns out all these lines produce a pattern that has been saved in the printer’s memory, and helps identify when the ink cartridges are fine.

Let’s summarize what we’ve learned so far, your printer can know when you remove or place ink cartridges inside it. It will also know if we’re using a good or bad quality ink cartridge, or if we’ve been employing the same ink cartridge for a long time. In this particular case, the printer will ask us to replace certain ink cartridges and will refuse to print any more pages until it’s been done.

How to eradicate this problem:

This situation has become a problem because the printer prints one of these test pages every single day and the problem persists every time you get your ink cartridges refilled, making you send paper unnecessarily.

All these lines printed on the test sheet are stored in its memory and are supposed to have a particular appearance. The printer won’t scan the colors themselves, but the lines need to show up on the piece of paper. If your ink colors are messed up, the lines will not appear.

You will need to scan this printed sheet just as it was printed; the printer has a few indicators that will illustrate how to place the sheet on the scanner, and how to arrange the sheet’s edges. Place the page on the scanner only if you want to scan or copy it.

paper in the printer top // The green arrow indicates how to place to have them scanned

The outcoming test sheet will indicate to us how to place it on the printer so it can perceive all the commands on it, and let us print other documents. If we don’t do this issue will follow us around all day and keep us from printing at any given time.

Here is a picture of what your printer will say and how to place these modern test sheets.

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We must now click on our printer where it says print, scan, or copy, if the ink cartridges have been refilled properly and everything has gone according to plan, you will have a normal printing process until you choose to refill or remove the ink cartridges once more.

This can also happen when installing a new cartridge in the printer, this process can be canceled on some printers such as the HP 45000 model.

We recommend you keep one of these test sheets in perfect shape, just in case you have some other ink cartridge issues in the future and need to scan these commands again.

This post is based on the information we acquired in our workshop. All the information in this entire blog is nothing but personal advice and personal suggestions from the editor. We do not represent any particular brand, now own any of the products’ names.