Try jamming a long screw-driver into the space between the cartridge and the opening You may have to force it.
If you hear something cracking, it's just the ink cartridge loosening up. Pop it out like you are opening a paint can.
Please don't. It's late and I thought this was funny.
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2