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| Thread ID: 147957 | 2019-06-02 04:43:00 | HP OfficeJet 4650 - free to a good home | decibel (11645) | PC World Chat |
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| 1461160 | 2019-06-02 04:43:00 | I have a 3? year old multi-function printer which has been great EXCEPT for one thing. I have used refilled ink cartridges from Cartridge World with good results. (when installing each new cartridge, a message would appear saying something like "Non-standard cartridges detected" but this is cleared by clicking "OK") However, in the last few months, that message has changed to "Incompatible ink cartridges" and this message cannot be clicked away. As a result, I got peeved off with HP and went out and bought an Epson printer with giant ink-tanks. So, I now have sitting on the floor of my man-cave a no-longer used HP printer. I am confident that if you put genuine HP cartridges in it, it will carry on working very well. If you are happy to pay that extra expense, then the printer is yours for $$ZERO ! You just have to pick it up in Carterton. support.hp.com |
decibel (11645) | ||
| 1461161 | 2019-06-02 21:45:00 | Shudder.....never again. The thing I found with my last HP was all the inks would run out at the same time, regardless of using much colour or not. A class action suit was ongoing in the US at the time over that. Canon or Epson. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1461162 | 2019-06-03 00:25:00 | I know the feeling, my last HP Inkjet ran out of ink so being a real cunning guy, I bought a $98 Brother laser printer thinking I would just print on that and use the HP as a scanner. That was until a couple of weeks later finding that unless there are usable ink cartridges in it, the bloody thing wont scan. Ken :mad::annoyed::waughh::( |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1461163 | 2019-06-04 00:54:00 | HP use regionalised Ink carts on some machines .... to stop you buying cheaper genuine HP carts from overseas :badpc: That can also throw up those errors . |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1461164 | 2019-06-04 01:13:00 | I have an Epson which has just decided the inks I have used for 3 years+ are now "not recognized " Have tried everything, but will now buy a new printer. Looking it up gives many many returns saying exactly the same thing! - Never again will I have an Epson.... (mind you, I didn't actually buy that one - was given to me lol) |
bevy121 (117) | ||
| 1461165 | 2019-06-04 01:25:00 | print head issue probably. It happens | piroska (17583) | ||
| 1461166 | 2019-06-04 02:53:00 | I just got tired of the ink prices and consigned my inkjet to dust gathering duty on a shelf. It's better at that than printing anyway. Probably too old to even give away now, originally got it for printing on CDs mainly. My great frustration with the inkjet, I want to print something only to discover I'm out of 1 or more ink colours, so I go buy some new ones and do some printing. Then I forget about the printer for 6 months and the whole thing happens again. Seems like I was getting maybe a dozen pages from a cartridge with the rest just vanishing over time, and this with 6 cartridges that cost nearly $30 each for genuine epson ones, or $8 each for generic ones. So I bought a brother laser printer, still using the toner it came with years ago. Much better for infrequent printing. If I want a photo printed I'll do that at a store somewhere. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1461167 | 2019-06-04 03:25:00 | So I bought a brother laser printer, still using the toner it came with years ago. Much better for infrequent printing. If I want a photo printed I'll do that at a store somewhere. My solution exactly Dugimodo. Brother B&W laser and if I need colour or large size the local Warehouse Stationery has a lot better equiptment than I could afford. In fact with most of my business done by email I find that I rarely need to print anything nowadays anyway. |
CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1461168 | 2019-06-04 22:27:00 | I just got tired of the ink prices and consigned my inkjet to dust gathering duty on a shelf. So I bought a brother laser printer,. It's not ink vs toner. It's how many pages you get from them. Regardless of ink cartridge or toner. There are tons of cheapie lasers out there that do bugger all pages per toner as well. Son was given on from work to use. It's gone back and he uses my old Epson ink, I always check that when buying a printer. A)How many pages will you get B)What is the cost of that cartridge or toner Then do your sums and see which is worthwhile and which isn't. generally if it's cheap, it isn't. A toner costing $300 that only does 1000 pages is a piece of **** printer. Like the thing they gave son. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1461169 | 2019-06-04 22:42:00 | Toners can be cheaper in the long run, depends on how much printing you do. Been to many peoples places where they are complaining about ink prices, as they have put in a new cartridge only done a couple of prints, come back a month later and the Inks all evaporated. Toners don't evaporated, ink can. Also depends on where you buy the toners from. Don't buy them from the manufactures they always cost more, for an example one toner at Brother is $79.95, same toner at a different place $63.19 Approximately 1,000 pages @ 5% coverage. On My Brother Mono Laser, the toners are approx $112 , Approximately 2,600 pages @ 5% coverage. That's a Whole Carton of Paper (5 Reams). |
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