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Printer and printing problems

If you're not printing colour you'd be better off with a laser printer. I have an HP 1020 (no longer available!) which is fast, prints well and cheap to run - a compatible cartridge at around £10 to 15 lasts me over 12 months. Current HP wireless lasers are around £90.
 
With both my old HP and Epson printers I used compatible cartridges, the story that Epson blocked the use of third party cartridges is wrong there was a way around it, I never paid the full whack for genuine ones.

For my current HP Envy 5646 I have an 'Instant ink' supply contract, costs me £1.99 per month for 50 pages, the printer tells HP when ink is needed and it arrives in the post in good time to change, also has a prepaid envelope to send the empties back.

There are a range of price options if you need more pages and if you only occasionally need to go over 50 you can add ten more for £1.00
https://instantink.hpconnected.com/uk/en/l/
 
jukebox said:
If you're not printing colour you'd be better off with a laser printer. I have an HP 1020 (no longer available!) which is fast, prints well and cheap to run - a compatible cartridge at around £10 to 15 lasts me over 12 months. Current HP wireless lasers are around £90.
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Thanks ... I agree that a laser printer is best for documents but I already have two printers.

I've had an Epson XP332 wifi printer for about 4 years and I'm very satisfied with it apart from it's appetite for ink. I do occasionally use it's colour to print personalised birthday cards for the grandkids etc. When any one of the four cartridges is empty it refuses to print.

Someone then bought me a very nice Canon TS5000 wifi printer which has 5 cartridges which are expensive to replace. In addition to the usual cartridges, the 5th cartridge is an extra large black just for printing docs and this is the only one I replace. I can usually fool the printer into thinking the colour cartridges are full but not always ... :)
 
oldMohawk said:
These days I rarely print colour photos because I look at them on tablets or computers. I do print black and white documents so only need the black cartridge. I have Epson and Canon printers which refuse to print from a full black cartridge if a colour cartridge is empty. I can trick the Canon printer into thinking the colour cartridges contain ink but never managed it with an Epson.

My Epson printer sips ink even when it is doing nothing ... :rolleyes:
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OldMohawk, had the same problem with my Edson and they would not run with anything But Eason ink! Then the head drive servo went crazy and I had to keep tricking it to HOME.
 
I have only had two printers, one was part of an HP bundle (tower, printer and monitor with Windows XP)) when purchased in 2003. It was a PSC = printer, scanner, copier. My second - which I still use - is an HP Envy all-in-one. I never have had any issues with either but do find inks expensive. It seems they always have been. At one time some of the cheaper ones gave you the printer - it paid for itself in ink costs I guess. Only once did I buy for the PSC printer a 'compatible' ink. Not good- it had a tendency to fade. So I always stick to HP ink.
Fortunately I do not need to print a lot so ink costs are not a big factor for me.
 
mw0njm. said:
i tryed to refill hp ink.but had no luck. they would not work....... i have 10 hp 5524 new ink cartridges free to ever wants them. if they pay the p&p
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Apparently the reason it does not work is that there is some software in the cartridges that counts the number of copies that it does and then switches it off so the refilling does not do anything. Unless you can find a way to rewind the software to zero nothing will happen. This seems to be almost anti-competitive behaviour to me.

This pales into insignificance compared to John Deere tractor owners in America because when you buy one the company keeps control of the software so when they need to be repaired only an authorised dealer who has the diagnostic equipment can do the job. There is an ongoing court case in US to resolve this to force the company to release the diagnostic equipment to other repairers to break the monopoly.
Sorry for the rant.

Regards from Redruth

Arnold
 
Arnold Mason said:
Apparently the reason it does not work is that there is some software in the cartridges that counts the number of copies that it does and then switches it off so the refilling does not do anything. Unless you can find a way to rewind the software to zero nothing will happen. This seems to be almost anti-competitive behaviour to me.

This pales into insignificance compared to John Deere tractor owners in America because when you buy one the company keeps control of the software so when they need to be repaired only an authorised dealer who has the diagnostic equipment can do the job. There is an ongoing court case in US to resolve this to force the company to release the diagnostic equipment to other repairers to break the monopoly.
Sorry for the rant.

Regards from Redruth

Arnold
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Arnold, most vehicle manufacturers in the US and elsewhere control their software to their dealers or authorized agents. For safety and emissions reasons (that's the story). I know that BMW & MB, Honda & Toyota do the same or they make the diagnostic equipment so expensive to buy that most small shops cannot afford to. there are some third party software's that can do some of the analysis.

What Epson does on their ink is have a chip imbedded and if the printer cant read it is will not run. i tried that and had Epson support on the phone and they were able to tell which color cartridge was not genuine Epson.
 
Eric Gibson said:
With both my old HP and Epson printers I used compatible cartridges, the story that Epson blocked the use of third party cartridges is wrong there was a way around it, I never paid the full whack for genuine ones.

For my current HP Envy 5646 I have an 'Instant ink' supply contract, costs me £1.99 per month for 50 pages, the printer tells HP when ink is needed and it arrives in the post in good time to change, also has a prepaid envelope to send the empties back.

There are a range of price options if you need more pages and if you only occasionally need to go over 50 you can add ten more for £1.00
https://instantink.hpconnected.com/uk/en/l/
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thats sounds good to me
 
Arnold Mason said:
Apparently the reason it does not work is that there is some software in the cartridges that counts the number of copies that it does and then switches it off so the refilling does not do anything. Unless you can find a way to rewind the software to zero nothing will happen. This seems to be almost anti-competitive behaviour to me.

Arnold
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you can but a tool to rewrite the chip, but they are mega wonga
 
If your printer is consuming too much ink during the printing, try these solutions:

1- Make sure you selected the correct Media Type setting in the printer driver that matches the paper you loaded in the printer.
2- Lower the density of ink in the Paper Configuration menu in the printer driver.

If this doesn't help, try buying a new Lexmark printer ink because they are the best in terms of quality, performance, and price. Thanks!
 
oldMohawk said:
I looked in Tesco a few weeks back and saw the price of a complete Epson print pack had gone down to £29.00 - half the cost of my printer.
A week later I reluctantly decided to buy a pack, but the price had shot up to £34.97.
I've decided to stop printing...:)
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me too phil sinse they now made the ink start to evaporate as soon as you open the new packet.also it is more expensive than champagne, grrrrr
 
EmmaHayner said:
If your printer is consuming too much ink during the printing, try these solutions:

1- Make sure you selected the correct Media Type setting in the printer driver that matches the paper you loaded in the printer.
2- Lower the density of ink in the Paper Configuration menu in the printer driver.

If this doesn't help, try buying a new Lexmark printer ink because they are the best in terms of quality, performance, and price. Thanks!
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Thank you Emma, welcome to the Forum. Enjoy the folks and the sharing of great information!
 
I think I mentioned before the HP 'Instant Ink.' deal that I joined, the printer tells HP when new ink is needed and it's delivered before it runs out, together with a prepaid label to send the empties back.
Costs £1.99 per month for a fifty sheet deal but for users needing more there are other deals.

Ps, Sorry Emma can't agree about the Lexmark stuff. ;)
 

Epson XP-352 Printer​

have been given this printer (new) but I cannot get it to print address labels, any ideas to help to be able to print them? Thanks
 
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What happens?
Are you trying to print addresses from a spreadsheet or similar. I guess the labels on a sheet will all need to be different i.e. for sending out Christmas cards?
 
jukebox said:
What happens?
Are you trying to print addresses from a spreadsheet or similar. I guess the labels on a sheet will all need to be different i.e. for sending out Christmas cards?
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Yes correct I print out address labels for Xmas cards. I could do it on my HP printer which I gave away (duh). Its on a Word document.
 
As it worked OK with the old printer it suggests the problem is in the printer properties or printer preferences. Check both. Or perhaps update the driver.
 
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