HP Original Cartridges

CC364A HP 64A Black Toner Cartridge for HP P4014/P4015/P4515
£151.58 ( US - price excl. VAT, but we only ship to the UK )

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CC364X HP 64X High Capacity Black Toner Cartridge for HP P4015/P4515
£308.00 ( US - price excl. VAT, but we only ship to the UK )

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Reliable Remanufactured Cartridges

One of the merits of the P4014 against a new printer is the low cost of good re-manufactured cartridges.

At the moment we don't sell in the US, but we hope to soon

Error Message 56 for HP P4014, P4015 and P4515 Series Printers.

56 Error is an incorrect I/O request. Some sort of error in what is being communicated to the printer. Cycle the power. It seems most likely that this message will be triggered by an application program or an "experimental" driver.

56.XX ERROR

HP say in their service manual ...

56.XX ERROR alternates with 56.XX ERROR To continue turn off then on.
A temporary printing error occurred as a result of an incorrect input or output request.
If the message persists, contact an HP-authorized service or support provider.

... before contacting a support outfit it's probably better to consider what you are trying to print. It looks as though this error gets triggered by incorrect use of a print language, or possibly by the language interpreter in the printer getting it wrong. The former problem is more likely as HP devised PCL and their implementation of PostScript seems to be generally well regarded - as are the Windows drivers. The issue is therefore likely to be an application phrasing it's requests wrongly or asking something impossible rather than a printer error. Do other jobs print correctly?

There used to be a "30 Error" which was a PostScript error however the P4014 doesn't have that.

The service manuals also suggest it is possible to trigger "49 Error" by incorrect commands - although that seems to be as a result of knocking the printer software into an unexpected state. A "56 Error" seems to be a more controlled "no you don't" message.

Remedies

Whilst it might happen that "56 Error" could be printer firmware or flakey drivers it seems more likely that they are due to an application creating a problem. In all probability it is something homespun that isn't implemented quite correctly.

Web Research

I tried querying Google with P4015 "56 ERROR" with and without quotes but got nothing of much interest. P4015 "56.XX ERROR" in quotes and got a suggestion of About 95 results looking a bit more relevant, but not exactly a popular topic.

laserprinterservices advert - colourful in blue and orange
mindmachine page I'm working to improve.
printer.konicaminolta.net rather mysteriously offering the P4015 service manual.
laserprinterhelp article on the 57 Fan error - no clue what it is doing in this search. It should be in the next - but it isn't much help anyway.
bizsupport2.austin.hp.com offering the PDF user guide.
h20000.www2.hp.com LaserJet 4250 and 4350 Series Printers - Understanding Printer Error Messages - just confirms the error had the same meaning on the 4250/4350.

There was very little of iterest found on the "56" error. We think it is rare, and if you have it then turn the printer off and on again to clear down any problem and try printing from a different application. Prove that ordinary applications work and then contact the author of the application that doesn't work.

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