UPDATE HP PHOTOSMART C7280 CODE

You can probably buy the caps you need on eBay. On mine i located one puffed cap and replaced it and it seems to be working fine. But I would bet that if most of you checked your logic board you would find some puffed caps on the board. Be careful when removing capacitors because the boards on most things now a days are multi-layered boards and you have to make sure you have all the solder removed before pulling it out of the hole or you might pull the pad out with it. Well this is what i found with the logic board of my hp c7280 printer. The problem today is that allot of electronics are manufactured with substandard electrolytic capacitors and over time they go bad. I removed the logic board from the printer which you can do by watching this video ( it is not the same model but it comes apart the same way) So i decided to look a little deeper and by doing so I have discover the a fix to the problem. I had the same problems as listed above, but even after putting the little gear back on I would occasionally get the sound of grinding gears and various error messages.

The printer cycled ink through the cartridges and was happy again. I removed it with chop-sticks and all was well. And indeed, I still had a small piece of paper stuck in the area where the head parks itself. Now my printer complained that I had a jam.

My little white gear was in the incorrect position so I moved it. The incorrect position is to the right of the larger gear. The position shown in the photo seems to be the correct position. The left one can rotate around the larger one and can rest in two possible positions. In the picture you can see 2 white gears in the middle of the picture. When it does, the gears engage with some other gears to drive this pump. The printer head can move all the way to the left. The black arm is connected to a metal shaft which rocks a spring-steel sheet that depress some rubber boots. I noticed how the ink pumps on the print head seemed to work - a black arm attached to a white gear is allowed to rotate about 1/2 a turn.

UPDATE HP PHOTOSMART C7280 CODE

I tried a number of suggested remedies (see the 'fixyourownprinter' forum) but all they succeeded in doing was to factory default my printer - now I had to re-enter that very long wireless router SSID code again.īut it is such a pleasure with the HP Setup UI (did any HP tester actually use it? The input field doesn't even show all the characters so the last 3 are entered blind!)Īfter several power cycling events, I decided to investigate. Then I got the 'Ink System Failure' message. It worked fine today, but tonight it started making horrid gear-grinding noises. Note to self: when removing jammed paper, reassemble the pieces to see if you got it all out. It may have started two days ago when our first piece of paper jambed.

0xc05d0381 (I did get another code after resetting the printer as well.) Moving gear back to it's correct position solved problem. UPDATE: We had another paper jam recently and it caused what seemed to be this same fault.

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