15 years ago HP may have had a crappy supplier but I rather suspect programmed obsolescence. This capacitor problem is known all over internet. Now this c5180 is dead because a broken gear.īecause my skills to unsolder/solder are bad, I shall buy new capacitors and find someone to do the job (here in France there are shops who repair phones including microsoldering, and they mostly advertise for apple, strange.) I already had similar strange problems with a c5180 which were cured by swapping such a capacitor. But I rather suspect faulty capacitors on the mother board as per this article : Sometimes paper goes through the printer but only for ejection, so it is not mechanical. Impossible to cure even trough hard reset. Then yesterday I got a very beautiful second hand C8180. What other possible solutions have I missed?
Has anybody had any luck fixing this problem? Others out there on the internet having this problem have tried replacing the cartridges without success, so it seems unlikely. Perhaps the problem is with the cartridges that are installed? I am now gazummped, and considering taking up my statutory rights as a consumer to get a replacement. Underware Menu: (this looks to be a programmer’s hilarious joke) Under ‘System Configuration Menu’ is where you can clear the 'hardware failure status'.
Under ‘Resets Menu’ is where you will find ‘Partial’ and ‘Semi-Full’ resets. NVM/firms is the one you want, I would highly recommend NOT wiping the printer firmware unless you really know what you’re doing, this will most definitely have the possibly of being fatal to the printer. In this menu you can scroll sideways to the following: You will be requested to 'Enter Special Key Combo.' Press 'Red Eye Removal' & 'Print Photos' simultaneously.Ģ. Their are (at least?) three different but similar service/maintenance menus on the C8180, all with the title 'uiaux'ġ. I then tried 'partial' and 'semi-full' resets. This initailly looked positive as the error message was gone on the first reboot, but the printer shot out only empty pieces of paper before the error message returned after rebooting again.