Before you do that, you MIGHT reconsider, and try implementing my suggestion from my earlier post (which everybody seems to have ignored).  It certainly won't cost you anything to try.  As you yourself said, while it was printing, it was printing very well -ie, until you disturbed the electrical contacts between the printer and its cartridges, which may have oxidized over time.
DPH

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