I ran a printer supply company for about five years. It was very rare that we could not sort out a customer's problems and that was usually because the printer had died after a long life.
I've resurrected machines that have been idle for two years or more. Of course, importing the cartridges myself, it cost me very little to run a whole cartridge of ink through the head.
Sometimes, recycled cartridges can do that. Despite extensive testing, the fact remains that the cartridges have been used more times than originally designed for and they will eventually fail. With luck, that will be during the remanufacture process, but not always.
However, it should not happen with a manufacturer's original cartridge or a good compatible.
I offered a 30 day no-quibble guarantee. It was very rarely invoked and almost always involved a recycled cartridge (ink or toner), despite my only buying from the best suppliers.
Colin Bignell