I've read that HP's ink was the only thing keeping the company profitable. They obviously sell their printers as loss leaders to get you hooked on the ink. I never found, despite looking, 3rd party ink cartridges that worked well in their printers. HP has killed the goose that laid the golden egg with their shoddy printers. The legacy of Carly whats-her-name (I shudder to think what she would have done to California as its Senator...).
--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > > On 07/22/2011 05:37 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "whynotnow7"<whynotnow7@> wrote: > >> When you need to replace that HP printer, you may want to go with > >> the Brother brand. I had three HP printers, each one worse that > >> the last. > > > > I've owned exactly two printers in the 18 years that I've been a computer > > user, both HP. The first was their portable inkjet, and since I do very > > little printing, the printer would sit there getting all gunked up, and it > > would never work right when I'd go to use it. I swore that I would never > > again own a printer that uses liquid ink. In 1998, I bought a LaserJet 6L, > > and it has been working flawlessly ever since. With the demise of parallel > > printer ports, I had to get a USB adapter so I could use it with my current > > machine. What's great is that Windows supports it natively, no drivers > > needed, because HP is notorious for making bloatware printer drivers. > > > > Petra has two printers, a small Samsung monochrome laser printer that kicks > > ass, and a color, all-in-one, fax/scanner/copier/printer from HP that a > > friend gave her, and IMO, it is a whoreanus piece of crap. > > In 1989 I bought an NEC laser printer probably for $1800. Never ran out > of toner while I used it. I needed faster output for printing source > code. My current printer is an HP Photosmart Plus wifi printer. I went > with HP because they've always support Linux, probably because they sold > Linux servers. Thing runs like a Model T. And yup, eats ink or times > out when they want you to buy ink again. It didn't like a third party > black cartridge and refuses to tell me the level. A year later wifi > printers were half the price. And I don't do much printing anymore > either but it is annoying when I go to do one of my custom birthday > cards for a relative and one of the cartridges is dry. With the wifi I > don't need a host computer and it will even print from my Android devices. > > The ink thing reminds me of my refrigerator. I don't drink the water > from it all that often nor use ice that much but 6 months after I put in > a filter the light says time to change it. I don't until I taste the > chlorine. There is no sensor to tell how well it is filtering just a timer. >
