How to Change ink Cartridges in HP Printer? from Alex Smith's blog

Printers are one of the most important parts of any set up. Everything today is online but still offices and even other sectors do require printers to get work in order and for passing and exchanging the communication. There are multiple printer brands available in the market but HP printer has always been the one most trusted and popular choices. HP printers are known for high speed and quality printing documents.

There are many different types of printers in HP range. If you are someone who uses printers on a daily basis, you should know how to put ink cartridge in HP printer. Some of the examples of types of HP printers are all in ones, ink jets and laser jets. They primarily produce top quality photographic prints. The ink used in every printer even of the same brand can vary. Basically, there is more than one way of changing the ink cartridge on HP printer.

Before installing the new cartridges in your printer, you must confirm that the ink colors you have are correct and compatible with your printer.

How to replace ink cartridge HP Office jet pro 8600?

• First, you need to check the ink levels in your printer. There must be an ink icon on your printer control panel.
• Tap on the icon to know the status of ink levels.
• Now, switch on your printer and lift the top cover.
• The cartridge will automatically move to the centre.
• Gently push the tab on the front cartridge and lift it up to remove the old ink cartridge.
• The cartridge will pop out and you can carefully remove it.
• Take out the new cartridge from its packet. Make sure you do not touch the ink with your bare hands.
• Slide the new cartridge in the empty slot.
• The colors on the marker of the print head should match the ink cartridge.
• You will hear them click when all the ink cartridges would be in place.
• Close the printer lid carefully.

Once you have installed the cartridges in the printer, a confirmation message will appear on your desktop. Click on confirm to allow the printer to initialize the new cartridges. The process of changing the ink cartridges is now complete. The above mentioned procedure describes the method of how to change ink in HP.

You should always carry out a print test to check the quality of the print and if there is any issue, it can be mended there itself with the help of a little troubleshooting.

Steps to print a test-page:

• Load the unused white paper into the input tray.
• Press and hold the cancel and start copy colors buttons at the same time.
• Now, release both the buttons at the same time.
• The self test page would be printed automatically.

The mentioned step wise process would help you to change the ink cartridges in your HP printer successfully and without the help of any technician. In case, you do encounter some issue which you cannot resolve, call the help line number.