No More HP Printers For Me

[calliopes_pen]

Thanks to a firmware update from HP that was pushed yesterday, I believe I can safely cross off HP printers from my list of potential printer purchases.

Basically, the update blocks all non-HP ink from functioning correctly. There weren’t that many from HP that I had included on my list just yet, thanks to everybody's recommendations and advice (thank you for it, by the way) along the lines of Canon, Epson, and Brother.

This merely narrows the field a little more for me.

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[calliopes_pen]

The free one never could see the paper that was in the tray, I know that much. Is it entirely full? Nope, sorry, out of paper. Put more in to the point that it's overflowing and insane? Well, it saw one sheet of it. Occasionally, just to be random, two.

Just put in the ink? Nope, sorry, out of ink. Or you would get one good line, and then the rest of it was odd. It was just the top half of every word, even when it was aligned correctly. (And I checked so many times.) Finally, one day, it wouldn't even do that much, and just shot blank sheets of paper at me. Even if I switched to a newer cartridge. I gave up on it.

All these months later, into the trash heap it went. It was a long time coming for the thing.

...and of course now the one I'd bookmarked on Argos to compare with other printers is coming up as "we can't find that page". So that's going to be a return to the drawing board...

I've hit a few printer recommendation pages like that as I search, too. Either long out of date, or the page is no longer there.