Time for a new printer… [Filler]  by rhoing

Time for a new printer… [Filler]

I can print through this screen, but I cannot make it go away, so I cannot even get to the home screen. Can’t scan from it anymore. Printers…
» A 365er’s recent printer experience: Swillin’ Billy Flynn

Looking back
  1 year ago: “Fetching things from our lockers”
 2 years ago: “Plate [Filler]”
 3 years ago: “Tulip [Filler]”
 4 years ago: “‘Bird’s nest fern’ [Filler]”
 5 years ago: “Our ‘Cleveland Select’ pear tree”
 6 years ago: “Probably Platanus occidentalis (Sycamore)”
 7 years ago: “More signs of spring…”
 8 years ago: “Chocolate lasagna!”
 9 years ago: “Spring blossoming”
10 years ago: “Blue door”

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I feel your pain. My ink cartridges cost me an arm and a leg - consequently, I don't print much anymore.
May 17th, 2021  
@marlboromaam We don't get the newspaper delivered anymore; it's ridiculously expensive. So we get the e-paper, I download the puzzle page and edit out the crossword puzzle (Clare) and Sudoku (me) every day. That's 3 pages every two days.

Don't need color for the puzzles. There will be a future post from trying to replace this printer… HP tech support was worthless. Two hour call because they (1st-level tech and escalation tech) were convinced the spec sheet had to be correct (it's not). Done with HP forever.
May 17th, 2021  
@rhoing I've heard great things about the Epson Ecotank. Haven't looked into yet. Not when I may need a new iMac shortly.
May 17th, 2021  
@marlboromaam Had an Epson before. Daughter & SIL have a Brother they like and that's the brand of laser printer I bought.
Yeah, I need a new grill (one burner out); I want to swap my long rowing shell for a more maintenance free one; and my laptop's video card has been dying a slow death. Right now I'm working files on the external hard drive…
May 17th, 2021  
Today,I printed nearly 600 pages with hardly a hiccup on my HP printer that must be 5 years old by now.
May 18th, 2021  
Wow! I'm surprised you all are printing that much.
May 18th, 2021  
@danette I presume your 500–600 pages was business-related printing. This isn't still the 8600, is it? I can't justify spending the money on a 500+pp/day printer when I only print ~60pp/*month*. My first printer was $1,300 in 1991 and it was a beast: http://hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=348 Lasted a long time. That was back in the day when we had separate printers and scanners; remember SCSI connectors? But I digress. I guess my beef is this: HP can make a reliable printer for [small] business usage. If they can't make a comparably-reliable AIO printer for home usage, then they shouldn't be in that market. I bought another HP this month and promptly took it back because it couldn't do what its spec sheet said it could do. Neither could two-plus hours on the phone with a tech and an “escalation tech” get it to do what its spec sheet said it could do. So the spec sheet was wrong OR two techs were incompetent. So it went back and so far I'm happy with a competing brand laser printer. No more color ink cartridges for me.
May 18th, 2021  
@thewatersphotos 8 crossword puzzles and 8 Sudoku puzzles (on 4 sheets) per week from the e-edition of the local paper. So that's approximately 50 pages/month. I'm also occasionally printing some other logic puzzles I received on small cards, 3¼×3¼" — https://professorpuzzle.com/products/puzzles/brain-training/daily-cranium-iq-workout/ — but the cards are too small to work out some of the puzzles. Everything else is simply “occasional,” so I'm at 50–60 pages per *month*, while Danette is at least occasionally printing nearly 600 pages in a *day*. Clearly, Danette and I do not require the same printer, so we are in different printer markets.
May 18th, 2021  
@rhoing yes, still my HP 8600! Chugging along. I do also have a separate high speed scanner. A laser? Sounds nice!
May 19th, 2021  
@danette BTW, I should find some excuse to relate the details of our older daughter's recent house listing-and-sale in the Boston-area market. The worry now is whether they'll be able to afford at least as much house as they're giving up, even if they move farther from the city. Our younger daughter is in the same market. She & her husband bought their house a year ago; she says they couldn't afford the same house now, a year later.
May 19th, 2021  
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