My printer just died

Quick question: how do you break an HP 900 series printer?

My 990Cse works great, and my father used it fgor 3+ years daily, think of a 20-page load every day for that long.

By the time I got it, the auto duplex function was munged, but that can be replaced easy from HP.

You're the first person I've ever heard of with a "dead" 900-series printer. They go on for fucking ages.
 
Try reading before replying, thanks.

1st, those refills fuck up the cartridges, 2nd my cartridge didn't run out of ink. I said that in the very first post.
Quick question: How do you break all of your electronic equipment?


I didn't break the printer; the electronics in the cradle for the cartridges went out. It was cheaper to replce than to repair it, which is what I've already done.
Mine has worked perfectly for 4 or 5 years now. Apparently 'fucking ages' is limited to about 5 years in my case. :tongue:

I'm pretty sure that's the case in my situation.Thanks for the suggestion. I haven't went that route yet because I don't print up enough things to justify the cost. The most I print up are emails and some occasional code. Everything else that I would print would be photos, but I have a separate printer for that.
 
yeah, that's kinda what i figured. i think it's a great route, regardless of the slightly higher investment, because of two major things: (1) you won't need to replace it any time soon (it'll outlive several broken inkjets) and (2) it will always work when you ask it to work.

i guess i err quite a bit on the side of that because i've been screwed several times by random failing equipment.

these days, i do my school stuff (for the classes i teach) and save all the material on my docked laptop disk, then i have a daily script that backs it up on two different drives within my PC and onto my fileserver, so there are at least 4 different disks carrying up-to-date material at all time. don't ask me why i started doing that; you wouldn't even believe the story that was my answer!

~ dan ~
 
Fuck that, get an IBM PS/1 dot matrix. The Proprinter. I had one, and it kicked ass.

SHRRRIIIIEKKK!

That was hooked up to my machine, a Dell 316SX, 386SX-16Mhz, 4MB RAM, 40MB HD, MS-DOS 5, and Windows 3.1 That was back in 1998.

Have fun with your Voodoo2's, I still have no clue what was in that machine.
 
MMMMMMm.... Old is good. I still have my original gameboy. Completely unrelated i know. I had an printer that did that, i think it was a lexmark. But honestly instead of buying new ink (i know thats not your problem), buying new printers is cheaper now a-days. Im not kidding.
 
I had an 8 pin and later a 9 pin. Soon, I converted to a HP Deskjet 400 back in the 90's. Lasted about 10 years until I lost the power adapter. Saw one for sale on e-bay for 99 pence, but the buyer wanted you to collect the goods from Essex...long story...I need a new printer real soon because I have lots of code to print out that needs condensing.
 
The ink issue is intense. Nowadays it's not the printer business, it's the ink business.

What is a good all round printer anyway? Something that lasts, that prints well and takes fairly affordable cartridges or uses less ink?
 
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