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Hi Friends
The HP Deskjet I stopped working and I find that only a new cartridge
will work. The old one is stamped 2005/05/13 and does it mean that the
cartridge will not work even if it has ink in it?
Not sure what you mean. If you mean that refilling the old cart wont
work , yeah a lot of makers do that. They have a chip etc in the
cartridge that prevents you from refilling and using unless you reset
it.
You can buy resetters for some brands. HP - theres a few sites that
show you how to do the tape trick which works sometimes. You have to
cover some of the circuit on the old cartridge and then put it in and
then take it out and then put it in again.
For me - I tried it and it worked sometimes but other times I had
problems so instead of going through all that hassle I just bought
another printer. Unless you have a great photo printer then I would
just chuck it and get another printer. Of course if you did have an
expensive photo printer you probably would want to buy the proper
cartridges anyway despite the ridicolous prices for ink.
However if you dont ---- get either a cheapo laser printer for
documents in B&W. Its way way cheaper per page. Or get one of the low
end Canon printers. I got the 470i but they have phased that one out.
They have the pixma line now as low as 49 bucks everywhere.
Does it print first class photos ? Of course not. But it does an OK
all around job and the black ink is $8 everywhere and you can fill or
buy clone cartridges for far cheaper in bulk check Ebay and the usual
zillion ink sites online. The color is around 18 bucks at Offce
Depot, Compusa etc and far cheaper if you check ebay and the usual
clone ink places. I think I paid $12 around there for a Black ink
cart and color at one Clone place with a slight discount they added to
the price. The big difference is that Canon printers dont have the
head in the cartridge, its just an ink well. Also all ink jet cart
are also notorious for being tiny - many of the low end HPs are not
only expensive but small. The canons are also small but like I said
you can refil easily or buy in bulk at a really cheap price.
Youll end up paying at least 50 bucks or more for two HP cartridges
for your printer so paying $50 for a Canon 1500 pixma gets you the
printer and ink. They often have super rebate sales so you might be
able to get a higher end Canon for super cheap if you look around
possibly during the July 4th sales coming up.
You can also buy remanufactured HP cartridges but they tend to be more
so you end up spending maybe $25-30 instead of the usual $50-60 for
both cartridges and Ive read the color HP color cartridges can have
problems.
