You may be able to get it to work by disabling the two way communication on
your printer port.  HP gives instructions on how to do this for the 2500
near the bottom of this page:

http://makeashorterlink.com/?B575216B6

This worked for my HP printer with these type messages.

Doug

At 12/2/2003 12:25 PM, Linda Denny wrote:

>Hello.  I am haing a problem with an HP2500C printer.
>I was getting error messages stating that the black
>print head was defective, so I replaced it.  Then, I
>started getting errors that the cyan ink was low, so
>I replaced it.  FYI:  This printer will not print if
>there is ANY sort of error message.

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