Hp C5180 Printer
Dallas Querry
Find below a link to your printer's webpage. There are manuals, help videos, software, and more. If you do not have all the software installed that your printer can use, it will be listed in Software and Drivers.
Depending on your printer and which Operating system you are running, there may be a "Full Feature Software" package for your printer. The Full Feature Software package (if available, will be listed in Software and Drivers) contains many tools; some of which may allow you to issue cartridge head cleaning instructions and diagnose printer issues from your notebook/computer.
When your printer stops printing one or 2 of the colors it means your print head is clogged. Tech support will have you remove the print head and clean the copper contacts on the bottom, but that is not enough. Hold the head in a rag and shake it, lots of ink will come out of the inside. I saw one case where the guy held his print head under hot water till it ran clear. Not sure of the long term effects on the head if you do that. Mine has clogged twice now and it has been ink inside the head.
I would absolutely suggest not shaking the printhead. Ink is required in the printhead, and if air gets into the printhead it can cause printhead failure. See this page for an ongoing discussion.
For the C5180 this is moot, since the printhead cannot be removed to shake it in the C5180 with its permanant printhead. I would suggest three levels of printhead cleaning as described in Step 3 of this page for the c5180.
The test on the printer show that the print alignment is failing. Cleaning the Printheads via the machine itself do not work and show that the black ink is not working. The diagnostic test sheet confirm that all colours apart from the black are working.
I really like our printer. The HP Photosmart C5180 was one of the first things my wife and I purchased when we got married. It does pretty much everything I want it to and the print quality is excellent if you use the correct paper. However, not too long ago our printer started acting rather strange. Every once in a while we would get this message
We would have to unplug the power from the printer and plug it back in to get things working again. As irritating as that was, we were ok with it for the most part. However, then things took a turn for the worse and I had no way of getting rid of the message. The stupid error kept coming back.
Though I do have more than the average person when it comes to soldering, I really want you to know that there is not much to this fix and almost anyone with eyes and hands (with thumbs attached) should be able to perform this fix.
The help message suggests "turn power off then on again". This does not clear the fault. I've followed a number of other threads with similar sounding issues and have attempted all of the suggested solutions including resets, print head cleaning, removing each print cartridge and cleaning them, removing and replacing the power lead whilst holding the OK and Help buttons. None of these have cleared the problem. Before I embark on what many others have described as less than useful and expensive, HP help line I wondered if anyone else has had, and solved, this error.
Just wanted to say thanks for the solution you posted. After days of trying various increasingly desperate strategies I was on the point of giving up and then found your post. The reset seemed to take ages - much as if it were a system inspection on a passenger jet - but was worth waiting for. Thanks again.
I have a C5180 that was my grandma's. It has bit the dust despite being hardly ever used. The original ink cartridges expired, and the yellow one was the first to go. For a few prints until we could get her new ink, we bypassed the warnings and it still printed just fine. We replaced the yellow, but then would get the warnings of the other cartridges being expired. She then stopped using the printer for a long time. When she needed to use it again, it was exibiting weird behavior, so we bought a full set of cartridges, however, after replacing them, the printer now just continually resets itself. If you let it do this for 2-3 days (yes, literal days of it just going through a seeming warm up routine, it gets to a certain point, then it turns itself off and back on) it may come to a stop and stay on. From there the errors are varying in nature, from requesting the printer be power cycled, to the ink system failure, to all sorts of other error codes. Basically the thing is now trash, which is a shame for such a capable machine that was barely ever used. When it gets to a point where it stays on, you can do a scan, but as soon as it tries to print, whether through a print job, copy, etc, then it starts reseting or giving error codes.
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Thank You!!!!! I have been struggling with this problem for over 8 months and didn't want to pay the money to contact HP by phone and the technical on-line support was never available! (go figure!) I All of the problems I was having was after I installed new ink cartridges! Didn't make sense. But I didn't even wait more than 3 minutes after resetting (using your unplug, pressing the help and ok button at the same time while plugging back in method) and now I'm back in business! Your AWESOME! I did have a improper shutdown message come up on the printer LCD, but I ignored it until it finished and then was able to use the printer again. Sure beats spending tons of money for something that was sooooo simple to fix! Thanks again!
You can connect the printer via USB to a single PC or via Ethernet on a network. Though it doesn't have wireless capability built-in, you could also connect it to a wireless router or a print server for a shared wireless connection. Even better, the Photosmart C5180 supports both Windows and Mac PCs, so if your household has mixed allegiances, everyone can share nicely. Each function of the HP Photosmart C5180 has a number of options that let you personalize your tasks, though the options aren't as extensive as those on other printers. The copy menu lets you resize, change the copy quality, specify number of copies (up to 99), as well as crop, designate paper size and type, and enhance copies according to the type of original (text, photo, or mixed). What we didn't find was the ability to do 2-on-1 or 4-on-1 copies. Also, the printer lacks a duplexer; if you want double-sided prints or copies, you'll have to do it manually.
The scan menu differentiates between scanning documents and photos. When scanning a document, you can open the scan in a number of HP utilities including the HP Document Viewer or Photosmart Express, as well as save it as a file, attach it to an e-mail, or open it in a program such as Paint. When scanning photos, you can do all of the above, as well as save it to a memory card or reprint the photo.
Printing from a memory card presents the most options. The dedicated Photosmart Express button lets you view and print photos from a media card, reprint photos by scanning them, save photos from a media card to your PC, and share the photos over a network connection. The Photo Fix button lets you toggle between on and off. If you turn Photo Fix on, it will automatically optimize photos by reducing red-eye and enhancing lighting, contrast, and sharpness. Additionally, when previewing the contents of a memory card, you can zoom in on a picture or zoom out to view multiple pictures at once. What you can't do is print the contents of a media card as a photo index sheet. This feature is common on Canon's photo-centric printers (such as the MP450). It allows you to print the contents of a card, bubble in the ones you want printed (as well as designate number of prints and type of paper), and scan the sheets to print only the images you designate. This tool is especially handy if you have a lot of photos on a card and don't want to click through them one by one.
One odd feature we noticed--and were endlessly amused by--is the ability to print so-called school documents: lined paper (both college rule and wide rule), graph paper, and a task list. Clearly, doing so is more expensive than just buying a pack of lined paper, but in a pinch, this is a useful tool. HP even got the colors right: the blue of the horizontal lines and the magenta of the single vertical line on the left.
The Photosmart C5180 uses a six-ink system, with individual ink cartridges, a feature we like because it's cost effective--just replace each color as it runs out. It uses the standard cyan, magenta, yellow, and black (CMYK), plus a light magenta and light cyan. The same ink is used for regular and photo prints, so you don't have to switch tanks for different task. The tanks are easy to swap out and the print head is prelabeled, so you know which tank goes where. The 10mL replacement black tank costs $18, while the 4mL color tanks cost $10 each. (The printer ships with a 16mL black tanks and 4.5mL color tanks.) The HP Photosmart C5180's speed is about what we expect from a photo all-in-one in this price range. It printed text at a rate of 5.17ppm, a bit slower than the Canon MP500. It was pretty quick with photos, printing 4x6s at a rate of 0.56ppm. The Canon also scored a 0.56ppm for photo printing, but that was for 8x10 photos. The C5180 is a quick grayscale scanner at 7.8ppm, but it slowed down for color scanning--3.68ppm. Because it doesn't have an automatic document feeder, we can't test copy speed.
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