Is my Lexmark X2600 just dead? W/ VIDEO

I rarely even use my printer but when I do I print a large amount of things at the same time...Today I went to print some directions and ticket info for a trip I'm headed off to but when I tried to print I discovered that my printer is completely unresponsive to everything. I have tried almost everything in the book (Unplug for X amount of time, look for something jamming the printer, look for a cartridge stall, re installing drivers, re installing software)but I just cant get this thing to work. It's just stuck with the power button flashing. I have made a video to help explain the situation more.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcADIxcrYro

Thanks!

[FONT=&quot]It's been 5 years since I last worked on a Lexmark, we had some of the professional series for printing pharmacy pt data sheets for the prescriptions and the labels for them. They can be finicky and I remember the flashing as well.

Is yours flashing 12 times with no response from the printer? If yes this is an indication of the ink cartridge not being recognized as installed or simply not recognized as an OEM cartridge.

You can try to perform the diagnostics tests, the internal one in the printer and the printer cartridge(s).

To perform the printer diagnostics this is what I remember and your printer may be different and you may wish to refer to you manual or Lexmark's Troubleshooting site.


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[FONT=&quot]Switch the printer on and open the front cover of the printer. The cartridge carrier should move to the center of the opening remove both cartridges.
If the carrier does not move to the center of the opening, you will need to remove the cartridges by hand.
Turn the printer off and remove the power supply cable in the back of the printer. Open the front cover of the printer.
Inside the printer, locate the silver metal carrier bar on which the print carriage slides. Locate the black rubber carrier belt above the carrier bar. This belt has tracks on its inner portion.
Grab the top portion of the belt and move it toward the right. As you move this, the ink cartridge carrier will move to the left. Continue to move the belt until the carrier is in the center of the opening. Now pull both cartridges out.

To perform the self-test:

Disconnect both the power cable and the USB or parallel cable.
After one minute has passed, plug the power supply cable back in. Turn the printer off by pressing the green power button.
Hold down the paper feed button.
Turn the printer on by pressing the power button.
After the printer begins to feed paper, release the paper feed button.
Once the paper exits the printer, press the power button to turn the printer off.
If the power light blinks while no cartridges are installed, there is
a problem with the printer. If the paper went through the printer as if printing was occurring, you will need to do some more testing. [/FONT]
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Test the ink cartridges:

Open the front cover and insert only the black ink cartridge. Close the front cover. If the light flashes there may be a defect in the black cartridge, if this is OEM return it for a refund, if aftermarket you might try removing the little chip from a used OEM, you can try this with the color cartridge just to ensure it does exactly what the black one did assuming it failed and if both do this I’d suspect the priter has bricked. [/FONT]

Is the printer head stuck? Or try to print a test page?

It will not do a single thing, if I open the printer the cartridges don't even move to the center. The power button just keeps flashing and flashing very slowly. Thanks for the help guys but nothing seems to be the answer.

Sorry to say it has reached what is termed EOC, End of Cycle.

^Mind explaining what that means? It's dead? It's just so strange that it would just die...it was working perfectly fine a week ago.

Electronics are funny, they will either die within the first 90-120 days or they run mostly problem free and often die w/o any indication, my last HP did that as did an earlier one so I went with Canon this go around, EOC=dead, doesn't mean it can't be fixed, only an authorized Lexmark repair facility can tell you with certainty, given today's pricing I doubt repair vs replacement costs would warrant it.

I hope you got it working now. If not, here are some articles in the Lexmark website that, hopefully, might do some improvement on your printer's current status. Click on this link: Lexmark - United States on How to Restore the Printer Settings on the Lexmark X2600 Series All-In-Ones to the Factory Defaults. Or this link: Lexmark - United States on How to Perform the Hardware Test on a Lexmark X2600 Series Printer. Hope these helps.