"I have never owned a printer that I liked." You could do worse than look at the Epson L series. Integrated (Epson) ink tanks, good size bottles of ink that mean you never get air in the printheads. May or may not be available in your country; may need to get one smuggled in!
My A4 (L355) went two years on the ink that comes with it. > > > > > > Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer > [email protected] <javascript:> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/fluxstreamcommunication/ > http://www.facebook.com/FluxStringer > https://www.youtube.com/user/fluxstringer > http://www.linkedin.com/in/fluxstreamcommunications > > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Bob Whiton <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Weeks later, half a box of 4x6 photo paper and $25 worth of ink wasted, >> and the verdict is: It’s Hosed. >> >> I copied every printer related file I could find on my backup, and none >> of it worked. The printer driver version number shown in the printer prefs >> never changed, even though I copied a CUPS driver with an older version >> number into the proper folder. >> >> Looks like I’ll have to be careful to never update software on my laptop >> and use it for photo printing from now on. >> >> Isn’t technology supposed to improve over time? >> >> Bob >> >> On Jan 26, 2016, at 5:56 PM, Google <[email protected] <javascript:>> >> wrote: >> >> > >> >> On Jan 26, 2016, at 10:00 AM, Bob Whiton <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi All - >> >> >> >> I recently made the mistake of letting Software Update nag me into >> installing new printer drivers, and now I’m paying for it. Here’s the set >> up: Aluminum iMac running OS 10.9.5, downloaded and installed the HP >> Printer Software Update 3.1. Now my Deskjet printer misaligns photos and >> borders. Spent a week on the HP support forum, uninstalled/reinstalled >> printer driver, reset printing system, no joy. Tried printing from my >> Macbook with the old driver, worked fine. Ergo, new driver bad. Neither >> HP or Apple has the old driver available for download. Someone on the HP >> forum sent a link to a third-party software download site for the old >> driver (3.0), but I’m hesitant to install software from an unknown third >> party (more than hesitant, actually). No help yet from Apple support forum >> either. >> >> >> >> I do have a backup made a few weeks ago which should have the old >> driver installed. So, is there a way to extract the old driver from the >> clone? Another way to recover the old driver? (Since this is 10.9, i >> don’t have an install DVD to load the driver from) >> >> >> >> [software update rant omitted] >> >> >> >> Bob >> > >> > Bob, >> > >> > Boot your iMac from your backup clone made a few weeks ago. Open up the >> contents of the backup clone hard drive. Go to the Library folder (not the >> Library in System or Users). Click on the Library > Printers folder, then >> drag and drop it on the icon for your iMac’s internal hard drive. Then >> double-click the iMac’s hard drive icon to display its contents. Find the >> Printers folder you just dropped, click on it and drag it to the Library >> folder. Choose “replace” in the dialogue window that opens. >> > >> > That will replace all the critical printer drivers with the old ones >> that worked. Close everything, then shut down and reboot to the iMac’s >> built-in hard drive. Your printer should be working correctly again since >> you’ve replaced all the new drivers with the old ones. >> > >> > If not, or if there are still issues, reboot to your old backup media, >> then do the same drag and drop process for (backupdrive) > System > >> Printers and (backupdrive) > Users > (your user folder) > Library > >> Printers. You can make your Users Library appear by clicking on your user >> folder, then holding down the Option key while selecting Go from the Finder >> menubar, then finally selecting Library from the Go spilldown menu. >> > >> > If there are still issues, do the same drag and drop with the relevant >> HP folders found in (backupdrive) > Users > (your user folder) > Library > >> Application Support. There also might be something lingering in >> (backupdrive) > Users > (your user folder) > Library > Preferences. >> > >> > Printer applications, as with many others, stick stuff all over an >> operating system. I’ve followed the steps above several times over the >> years to get rid of a printer update that did a FUBAR on my printers. >> Simply replacing the (iMac hard drive) > Library > Printers folder with a >> known good one should do the trick. But you may find that HP has stuck >> stuff elsewhere that also has to be replaced. >> > >> > If your backup clone is a Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper clone, then >> the above also can be done piecemeal using those applications. Also, if >> you’ve got a Time Machine backup, you can go back in time and retrieve your >> old printer stuff that way too, but it’s more difficult. >> > >> > There are other ways to revert your printer software back to the setup >> that worked, but these are my recommendations. >> > >> > CAUTION: Whatever you do, make sure all of your personal data contained >> in your user folder has been backed up separately from your “backup clone >> made a few weeks ago.” Why? If all else fails, you can re-clone your old >> backup onto your iMac, then import your current personal data from the >> current separate backup. >> > >> > Hope this helps. >> > >> > Jim >> > >> > >> > -- >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a >> group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. >> > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our >> netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:> >> > To leave this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:> >> > For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist >> > >> > --- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "iMac Group" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a >> group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. >> The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our >> netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:> >> To leave this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "iMac Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. 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