On Thursday, April 2, 2020 12:49:11 AM CEST Dale wrote: > antlists wrote: > > On 01/04/2020 22:46, Dale wrote: > >> I still haven't bought it yet. I ordered some toner cartridges a while > >> back for my printer. The site said that the ones I ordered fits my > >> printer. Well, it appears they found out that was a error because they > >> removed that page and relisted it but did not include my printer model. > >> So, I had to order a whole new set, at about $100.00 each for high > >> yield. Needless to say, I'll be paying on that for a while. I'll try > >> to sell the wrong ones later. I only opened one color so the others are > >> still sealed. > > > > I know you're not UK, but under European rules you'd be able to return > > that opened cartridge at their expense - "not as described" and it's > > their problem even if you had to open it to find out. > > > >> BTW, next time I'll find a printer that allows refilling and such too. > >> I don't like that chip thing. It counts against my page count on color > >> even if I print a black and white page. Still, printer does a awesome > >> job. Beats those ink jet thingys by a country mile. > > > > My HP laser is like that. Mind you, my colour cartridges "ran out" at > > about 1900 pages. They're still going fine (well, the yellow got > > replaced) at 4000 pages. But HP do say that a cartridge running empty > > won't damage the printer - all the vulnerable parts are in the cartridge. > > > > Cheers, > > Wol > > I did try to contact them but have not heard back, either way. They may > be closed or something tho. No idea. Some businesses are closed due to > the bug thingy. It may be that later on they allow me to return it. > > From my understanding, when it reaches zero pages, it stops that > cartridge from working. In other words, even if there is toner in the > cartridge, it won't feed it into the printer. It may be a Lexmark > thing. HP may do it differently. I looked to see if I could find a > replacement chip and some toner but not for my printer, yet anyway. > Maybe in a year or so.
I use HP and don't have that issue. Otherwise it would have stopped printing months ago :) -- Joost
