Re: [OxLUG] Mono Laser Printer

M.Blackmore wrote:
> I've still got an HP500 deskjet in the loft and a heap of old cartridges
> and am toying with bringing that down to use up the cartridges, it was
> only taken out of service last year when networked the laser which has
> energy saving feature the old DJ500 lacked... and I've found that nearly
> 20 year old cartridges still work fine when unwrapped for those inkjets,
> which says something for the quality of manufacture changing over the
> last two decades. I still keep and use an old laptop companion portable
> dj300 purchased second hand in ca 1990-91, running the cartridge under
> the tap to wetten dried ink always seems to revive the cartridge that
> is in use despite often a couple of years unused. Try that with an Epson
> inkjet!

My counterpoint is I had two HP inkjets, and they were both utter
crap. Couldn't feed paper properly, couldn't print a straight
vertical line (curved - due to dodgy paper feeding), couldn't print
properly, colours bleeding, nozzles getting clogged too quickly, and
the second one got into a state where every page printed was followed
by it feeding a blank page - no amount of resetting, power cycling, or
HP tech support was able to stop it!

HP inkjets: never again.

-- Jamie