Wow that's really rather bad news! :(
The printer was bought in Egypt originally so I'm not sure how easy it will be to get them from there!
My friend changed region on his HP - starting to wish I'd bought one of them now!
Ok I do still have the empty original 440 and 441 cartridges (and some...
Thank you Peter
The printer is MG4140 (can't believe I forgot to put that!)
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.
I'll look for the manual and post again later :)
Have moved countries and I am trying to reset my region.
I finally got a copy of the v3400 service tool from 4shared.
When I open the service tool all the buttons are greyed out.
I 'think' I have the printer in service mode but not sure. The method from 2manuals certainly does something but...