OT HP printer help ? OT

===================== Used several HP printers and 3n1s over the years and they were all junk, as were their branded CD burners (which I paid extra for). The current HP is not the same company that developed and manufactured the premium electronics and test equipment that I, and most likely you, used years ago.

Suggest you buy another brand. When my last HP died, I got a Brother on sale which has been very satisfactory, and the ink cartridges are very inexpensive.

Check with the office supply chains in your area for sales. examples from amazon

[80$ free shipping]

Depending on your print volume, you can pay for the printer with the ink cartridge saving.

I think my laser printer is a Brother - too bad it's still in Memphis . Cartridges cost , but they last like forever - but it only prints black . I print photos often enough to need a color printer ... this situation ends up with HP sending me a new one for all the time and trouble , plus Walmart (the wife works in that department at our local WM) is going to swap this one . But the next printer I buy won't be an HP ... because as you say , they ain't the same as they useta be .

My antique HP 970 is still going strong. It's getting harder to find ink but I have some good ink and stored print heads to refill. I may convert a few over to bulk feed one of these days. I had a Canon that was bulk feed, it was nice going a couple years without any issues.

================= The Amazon Brother example is a color inkjet, with very good appearance, esp. at high dpi. If you are going through 3 HP ctgs per year, you can get the suggested printer and the pack of aftermarket color/black ctgs for less than the HP ctgs alone cost.

Another area where American industry shot themselves in the a**. Consumer inkjet printers were largely a HP development....

Make sure the tape is off the front face of the cartridge so the contacts and printing holes are exposed.

Just an idea - might be dirty or taped.

Go into the correct socket ? Hope HP got that one figured already.

Mart> I just got a new black (61XL) cartridge for my HP 3510 all-in-one , after

I don't use HP but on some of the Canon printers I've had there was a specific series of buttons, and hold times, to press to reset the ink reservoirs. A HP might be similar

Buy low priced HP and Compaq product and you get crap. If you buy their premium product, you pay big money and get half decent product. Their premium products can often be purchased used/reconditioned for a decent price - still more than most "cheap" equipment - and it will outlast and outperform the low end new stuff.

Brother does build some decent stuff, and the price is pretty good. Did you know Brother invented the dot matrix printer? An offshoot of their embroidery machine business.

My Canon ip4820 is bulk fed. Works pretty good.

"Howard developed a personal relationship with his neighbor, Max Hugel, the founder and president of Brother International, the United States arm of Brother Industries, Ltd., a manufacturer of sewing machines and typewriters. A business relationship developed when Centronics needed reliable manufacturing of the printer mechanisms-a relationship that would help propel Brother into the printer industry."

In the mid 80's I helped develop a color ink jet printer designed by the former Centronics engineers. They contracted Juki to build it in Japan since they said the growing regulatory and union burden had made manufacturing impractical in the US.

I dampened Japanese bragging that Nihongo is the only language with a word for 10,000 (ichiman).

-jsw

The Chinese word for 10,000 is "wan" (falling tone). It's also used generically for any large number like we use "thousand" or "million". Since that's the mother language for most of the other languages in the region the quaint local dialects like Japanese and Korean have variations on it.

Indians have words for 100,000 (lakh) and for 10,000,000 (crore)- you'll see them fairly frequently even in Indian English.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

That was one of the in-your-face ego-boosting fabrications that circulated in the 1980's, like the claim that Egyptians in general and Cleopatra in particular were Black (she was Greek).

The point was to 'prove' that English was less sophisticated because it lacked such a word. A high-ranking Mitsubishi engineer repeated it to me so I showed him 'myriad' in his own dictionary, in private to spare him embarrassment, and never heard or read the claim again.

I acted the humble electronic lab tech until someone underestimated and tried to snow me with their intellectual superiority. Then they received an unexpected lesson. In R&D one needs to be able to filter the slick pretenders from the genuine talent.

-jsw

LOL Good on ya.