Dear friends, sorry for the long delay, but I haven't made a decision yet. I am torn between your hints and a printer I could get for nothing (HSBC Rewards). I will tell you about the outcome!
Off-topic: yes, I am loyal to HP even before they produced printers and x86 computers, even before my HP34 calculator. The very desktop I am writing this with is a heavy HP-Compaq D530, working since 2006, my wife had an identical one until a lightning stroke killed it. But through your opinions...
Redbrickman, The Hat: the Canon Maxify MB5150 seems to be a heavy duty machine, for office use, and prices I found abroad (it doesn't exist here) are more than twice the local price for a HP or Epson. My need is modest, occasionally a few pages a day. And when the cartridges eventually cease to...
The Hat, Redbrickman, Flyboy, many thanks for your points of view! My very 1st printer was a Canon 1000, worked good but that *particular* model accepted one black OR one colour cartridge and simulated black by mixing CMY.
When the cartridges wore out I purchased a HP4180, keeps working like...
Hi! I am about to purchase this machine and wanted to know comments from other owners.
My main interest is in knowing how friendly it is about being syringe refilled by myself.
I previously owned a HP4180 (21 & 22 cartridges) and a DJ3050 (122 cartridges), and noted the 122s required quite...
A final comment: a short time after thoroughly cleaning the carriage contacts, the problem appeared again. It was just by chance it has been apparently corrected by the cleaning, may be it was a false contact. So I took the printer to a service shop (I am an electronics engineer but I couldn't...
PeterBJ, the document covering the Tap 41 Diagnostic Test stated that an "Incompatible" error could not be bypassed in order to be able to diagnost the cartridge. So I emptied my savings account and purchased one more tricolor. The error remained!!! And I was sure I had set the region correctly...
As the Black 122 did not last enough after refills, I installed a continuous system myself.
- Tired of not being able to avoid the 'carriage jam' I had it reinstalled where I bought it, with new cartridges.
- Printed Ok 6 sheets, turned it off, turned it on 2 days after and now always shows...