Jamie Lokier wrote:
> 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
>
I had a HP600 that was a bit crap, but I'm with Mr Blackmore when it
comes to the the HP500. Mine was inherited from another OxLUG member
years ago - it still worked flawlessly despite being left in the pouring
rain when I was a bit slow in picking it up! Cue mutterings of "don't
build 'em like that anymore".
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