Groups | Search | Server Info | Login | Register

Groups > comp.os.linux.misc > #37409

Re: Dumb Pinter Question

From "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Dumb Pinter Question
Date 2023-03-04 13:57 +0100
Message-ID <errbdjxa8n.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> (permalink)
References (3 earlier) <9FKdnSx-aYhJ5pz5nZ2dnZfqn_WdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <ttscvk$279gm$61@dont-email.me> <mPednQDuEtC4aJ_5nZ2dnZfqnPWdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <ttv6pf$urec$1@dont-email.me> <ttv7an$279gm$77@dont-email.me>

Show all headers | View raw

On 2023-03-04 11:42, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 04/03/2023 10:33, Mike Scott wrote:
>> On 04/03/2023 07:36, 28A.I873 wrote:
>>>    Anyway, this is all why I don't rec inkjets anymore.
>>>    If you aren't printing all day the heads WILL gum up
>>>    and you'll have to go thru 10 "purge" cycles (there
>>>    goes most of yer expensive ink) to MAYbe clear all
>>
>> A sad story: years ago, I had a nice printer, Canon IIRC. Fairly 
>> speedy, duplex, print onto CD. separate cartridges for colours and 
>> black. Yes, nice.
>>
>> One day, the yellow, I think it was, ran out. I replaced it, and the 
>> printer ran its load/clean cycle. Now the magenta was out... You can 
>> see where this went..... I ended up putting a complete set of 
>> cartridges in purely because one had run out, and now yellow was low 
>> again. £50 down the drain in short order.
>>
>> I scrapped the printer (refused even to give it away) and bought a 
>> laser. Yes, I miss colour on the very odd occasion, but almost all our 
>> printing is in b/w and the running costs are so much lower. And no 
>> gumming up just because it's been idle for a week.
>>
>>
> My HP color laserjet runs on 3rd party cartridges at around £200 a full 
> set, but does about 1000 color pages for that. More if its just a bit of 
> color - like documents with a few illustrations
> It came with cartridges that do around 200 pages and the whole shebang 
> was not much more than £200
> 
> 
> 
> Generally only one cartridge runs out at a time. I had one issue with a 
> bad cartridge that went stripey way before it was empty, A new one fixed 
> it.

I also had a Canon inkjet printer (BJC4200, I think), and I got tired of 
it. The colour cartridges were expensive (50€, maybe), and did not last 
long. I learned how to refill them relatively cheap, but that non 
original ink tended to clog. Cleaning was easy in theory, just remove 
the cartridge, put a few drops of alcohol on the head, wipe it, then 
blow a bit with my mouth with the heads on a paper tissue. Repeat till 
the three colours came out. And refill. And clean cycle, test.

This meant that every time I needed to print something important after 
two weeks of not using the printer I had to waste an hour or two till 
the thing would work and work well.

Eventually I bought an HP colour laser printer. Toner is expensive, yes, 
but it works every time I power it up, even after months of not using 
it. Considering the number of ink cartridges I wasted, I'm not sure the 
laser is more expensive.

And my heart health improved, no more swearing :-D

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

Back to comp.os.linux.misc | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar

Thread

Dumb Pinter Question pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> - 2023-03-01 23:22 +0000
  Re: Dumb Pinter Question Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2023-03-02 01:59 +0000
    Re: Dumb Pinter Question "28A.I873" <28A.I873@noabzba.net> - 2023-03-01 22:45 -0500
    Re: Dumb Pinter Question Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> - 2023-03-02 07:04 +0100
      Re: Dumb Pinter Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-02 09:58 +0000
    Re: Dumb Pinter Question Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.nl> - 2023-03-02 10:34 +0100
    Re: Dumb Pinter Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-02 09:53 +0000
  Re: Dumb Pinter Question "28A.I873" <28A.I873@noabzba.net> - 2023-03-01 22:40 -0500
    Re: Dumb Pinter Question John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2023-03-02 05:17 +0000
      Re: Dumb Pinter Question Michael Uplawski <michael.uplawski@uplawski.eu> - 2023-03-02 07:14 +0100
      Re: Dumb Pinter Question Michael Uplawski <michael.uplawski@uplawski.eu> - 2023-03-02 13:56 +0100
        Re: Dumb Pinter Question John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2023-03-03 05:34 +0000
      Re: Dumb Pinter Question "28A.I873" <28A.I873@noabzba.net> - 2023-03-02 23:47 -0500
        Re: Dumb Pinter Question John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2023-03-03 05:52 +0000
        Re: Dumb Pinter Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-03 09:00 +0000
          Re: Dumb Pinter Question "28A.I873" <28A.I873@noabzba.net> - 2023-03-04 02:36 -0500
            Re: Dumb Pinter Question Mike Scott <usenet.16@scottsonline.org.uk.invalid> - 2023-03-04 10:33 +0000
              Re: Dumb Pinter Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-04 10:42 +0000
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-04 11:30 +0000
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-04 11:56 +0000
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-03-04 13:57 +0100
              Re: Dumb Pinter Question "28B.I874" <28B.I874@noabzba.net> - 2023-03-04 20:58 -0500
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2023-03-05 08:16 +0000
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-05 13:32 +0000
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2023-03-06 08:36 +0000
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question Mike Scott <usenet.16@scottsonline.org.uk.invalid> - 2023-03-05 16:47 +0000
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2023-03-06 08:16 +0000
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question "28B.I874" <28B.I874@noabzba.net> - 2023-03-06 00:20 -0500
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2023-03-06 16:03 +1000
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2023-03-06 08:44 +0000
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question "28B.I874" <28B.I874@noabzba.net> - 2023-03-06 08:46 -0500
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-03-07 08:58 +0100
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2023-03-07 08:36 +0000
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-03-07 11:39 +0100
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2023-03-08 08:09 +1000
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2023-03-08 08:13 +1000
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2023-03-08 05:42 +0000
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2023-03-08 16:09 +1000
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question "28B.I874" <28B.I874@noabzba.net> - 2023-03-08 01:38 -0500
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2023-03-08 08:25 +0000
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2023-03-08 19:28 +1000
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-08 10:24 +0000
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2023-03-09 08:23 +1000
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-09 10:02 +0000
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2023-03-10 08:16 +1000
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question "28C.I874" <28C.I874@noabgba.net> - 2023-03-09 20:46 -0500
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-10 11:25 +0000
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2023-03-08 15:02 +0000
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2023-03-07 07:45 +1000
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question "28B.I874" <28B.I874@noabzba.net> - 2023-03-06 20:20 -0500
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> - 2023-03-07 02:11 +0000
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question "28B.I874" <28B.I874@noabzba.net> - 2023-03-07 00:54 -0500
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-07 10:45 +0000
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-07 10:31 +0000
                Re: Dumb Pinter Question John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2023-03-06 08:30 +0000
            Re: Dumb Pinter Question Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> - 2023-03-04 18:46 -0500
    Re: Dumb Pinter Question Rob van der Putten <rob@sput.nl> - 2023-03-02 10:44 +0100
      Re: Dumb Pinter Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-02 09:56 +0000
    Re: Dumb Pinter Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-02 09:55 +0000
  Re: Dumb Pinter Question Joerg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.ch> - 2023-03-02 07:04 +0100
    Re: Dumb Pinter Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-02 09:57 +0000
      Re: Dumb Pinter Question Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2023-03-02 21:50 -0500
        Re: Dumb Pinter Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-03 09:03 +0000
  Re: Dumb Pinter Question Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2023-03-02 16:44 +1000
    Re: Dumb Pinter Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-02 10:00 +0000
  Re: Dumb Pinter Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-02 09:50 +0000
    Re: Dumb Pinter Question Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2023-03-02 21:56 -0500
      Re: Dumb Pinter Question Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2023-03-02 22:14 -0800
      Re: Dumb Pinter Question The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-03-03 09:08 +0000
  Re: Dumb Pinter Question "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2023-03-02 14:44 +0100
    Re: Dumb Pinter Question pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> - 2023-03-02 17:52 +0000

csiph-web