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hp660c noisey

what would be the fix for a noisey, sounds like nibbed belt trying to find home, printer replaced cart. because of alignment problems,red missing on top of square. any suggestions would be great as i called for svc . i might as well buy a new one.

vikiing

Many HP's printers often make those nasty sounds. Sometimes noise comes from carriage while moving, other times is the belt which shakes and trembles as if it were a snake. Unless you have alignment problems, besides the noise, printer works fine.

I think it's a design problem; thus, neither you nor HP service have a solution... :(

reiters

If you look behind the cartridge, you will see a grey plastic strip. open the lid so the cartridge centers. Turn off the printer and manage your way into the printer as best you can and clean the grey strip with WATER and cotton swabs. Be very carefull not to break the strip. You can move the head back and forth if the printer is off.

If you look at the strip close, you will see the grey band is accually little grey stripes going up and down. When the head moves back and forth, it reads these stripes for allignment. When the strip gets too much ink slatter on it, the head looses it's place.

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any further advice that could be needed in keeping my printer going would be very much appreciated . the last bit of free advice was very good and if u have a repair book written i would be like to purchase it just send the info on how i could get it. thanks again and have a very good new year