floridagirl5659

i have a brother mfc 210c and only the colored ink is printing. what can i do to get the black ink to print.

Terrister

Has the black ink been replaced?

floridagirl5659

Yes, But I Used A Refill Kit For It. But I Also Refilled My Color One With It And It Works

Terrister

Sometimes the refills do not work correctly. You can purchase another black cartridge and that should get you printing again.

Done_Fishin

points about refills

cartridges with head included
if ink dries up before you refill, then you're wasting your time .. highly unlikely it will work again .. replace teh cartridge with agenuine product and you have a high chance of working again

cartridges where the head is part of the printer ..
if the ink dries up it's cheaper to get a new printer than repair the head, there are some unclogging agents but they don't guarantee a clean up

I changed from HP with replaceable head & cartridge to Epson with replaceable cartridge (no Head) .. the HP I had working for 10 years .. the Epson was replaced with another HP after 2 years .. due to clogged heads

Kalim

I would try with a normal black ink cartridge, always keep one handy. Then you know what's faulting.

westmoors

Hi Floridagirl, as you can see many folks have this problem but in my experience you have to know if possible why it is not printing before you start. My Epson printer would not print just the black text , it took me about three weeks before I sorted it, meanwhile I used a complete set of cartridges trying to clear it. Then I decided to think for a change, it printed either the top half of a line of text or the bottom half, so perhaps it was not fully clogged,or perhaps it was just ink starved, or both.
I took out the offending cartridge, turned it upside down and with a syringe put a small ammount of ink cleaner into the ink outlet, then quickly slapped it back in place and left it over night, on starting the printer did it's usual head clean and when I tried it the print was perfect, so there's another option and it can save you a lot of ink
. New original maufacturers carts but more likely compatibles may not breath enough to begin with to allow the ink to flow , and may even need the breather channel checking, ( I push a very fine sewing needle through the label straight into the breather hole on top of the cartridge if that's the problem ) but a cartridge that has been in use often responds to a litttle priming as mentioned, be warned it can be a messy job ! westmoors.

Done_Fishin

Thanks for your input westmoors. This thread is a couple of years old now but your input may well help others should they wish to follow your advice.

Since this thread is so old I am closing it ..

Thanks again