I have had no problems re-inking the black cartridge on this printer so I thought I would try to re-ink the tri color cartridge - now it only prints in black and light blue, and infrequently in yellow and light green.  I have tried to clean, recalibrate, test print, all that stuff, but still comes out the same. One of the suggestions in the booklet that came with the kit was to set it with the nozzle on a wet papertowel for 5 minutes. When I did that, I did see all 3 colors on the towel.... put the cartridge BACK in the printer... tried to print a picture.... still came out black and blue (and no... I didn't do anything to bruise it!   ).

I have tried searching on the HP site and only info is to replace the cartridge when the ink shows running low - nothing in the troubleshooting section on this TYPE printing problem... and after searching this site for QUITE some time, I haven't seen this problem mentioned here either.  I also talked to a 'computer geek' friend - said he had the same problem when he reinked the color cartridge too, but never found a solution to the problem.

Is there some TRICK to reinking the color cartridge? Has anyone run into this problem when they have reinked a cartridge? Any ideas on a solution besides purchasing a new color cartridge?
:-/ HP and the other manufacturer do not support re-using cartridges, and in some cases it voids your warranty. It may just be $$$$ to them, but I've never heard complaints from using a major branded cartridge, EXCEPT for the price.try going into the hp software help page.....or the print manager......