Blue wont print! why????

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I tried refilling my lexmark inkjet cartridges. The black works fine and in the color cartridge the red and yellow work but the blue wont print at all. Anyone got any ideas what's wrong??
I already printed several cleaning pages and it didn't fix the problem.
Any help would be appreciated.
 

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FALSE, I'm assuming this is one of the cartridges with a built in printhead? If you printed too much with the cyan (blue) being empty or clogged you may have permanently killed the nozzles on the printhead.

I had many cartridges fail on my old Lexmark that I couldn't recover no matter what I did to "unplug" or fix the nozzles. What is tricky is that a plugged nozzle and a dead / broken nozzle give you the same symptoms... no prints. In fact, I actually had saved all my "dead" cartridges with the hope that someday I'd find a magic cure that would save all the carts (an analogy is getting cryogenically frozen in hopes that someday a cure will come along and you can be brought back). My fix.... I got a Canon printer! ;)

Try some of the techniques here:
http://www.nifty-stuff.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=63

If none of them work you'll need to buy a new cartridge.
 

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Hey thanks for your help!
 
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