[PLUG] Another reason to NOT buy HP

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 24 Sep 2016, King Beowulf wrote:

>> HP just made it impossible to use third-party ink in its printers
> --snip---

> Also, over the decades, I've had mixed experiences with 3rd-party ink.
> For lasers, in an FDA CGMP regulated pharmaceutical lab, HP cartridges
> on good archival paper were always superior. The front office used
> cheaper generics where the fused ink tended to flake off the page. For
> inkjets, generic cartridges tended to clog more often and the ink tended
> to bleed on the page.

   FWIW, I buy refilled HP laser cartridges for both the LJ-5 monochome and 2550L
color at Cartridge World and they've all worked great for me. My inkjet
experience (with an large format HP deskjet) was not happy because I used it
infrequently and the print heads would clog. Heads and color cartridges were
separate and cost $75 each; that's an expensive replacement cost.

   Ed's correct that many of us print infrequently. I'll stick with my old HP
laser printers as long as I can.

Rich