HP 2000c Workaround

[Rich]

I've got a couple of HP 2000c printers which I love, except for the chip
on each ink cartridge which is encoded with a "do not use after" date.

Thought about using a print server, but concluded THAT wouldn't get
around it.

I'm now thinking of trying drivers from a different, non-chipped, HP
printer. I know that some drivers will work with other printers; for
example, if I forget and send something to my HP2000c using my Laser Jet
II drivers, it prints very well indeed! (except it is in black and
white, of course).

So, any suggestions for a similar quality HP printer, that doesn't have
a chipped cartridge? It would be easy for me to download drivers and
try them on my HP 2000c printer.

Rich

 

[missingdata]

I have my 2000c on a print server [a little hawking box with a
centronics connector on one side and an rj45 on the other], and have
been using both outdated heads and inks [from ebay] just fine [and I
LOVE the printer -- even for throw-away photos after having used
colorvision to build a custom profile for it]. It just goes and goes
and goes.

I'm not even sure you need the server though. It's been a while since
I had it direct-connected, but I'm sure I was using outdated carts even
then too -- but I think I'm using the 2500 driver without
bi-directional enabled on the port and without status monitoring. Not
sure which one of those keeps it from knowing the date on the PC, but
whatever it is, it has never rejected a cart as outdated.