Since the electrical internal date stamp tells it “break” since even though I bought them new just a few months ago, the cartridges have an expiration date of about one year ago (as of this posting). So now I can expect to get half the use (if I’m lucky) of literally HUNDREDS of dollars of INK bought recently!

The printer won’t even LET ME print when IT decides “oh… you’re out of ink now.” It doesn’t even TRY. At least the old ones TRIED. I should google a solution but I’m betting there is no way they’d engineer an override for this cash cow!

What amazes me is that these “engineering wonder cartridges” can’t have a warranty longer than a two years! (Sealed hermetically with the jets covered safely) when I received them they were nearly already past their expiration. The FINE PRINT says “limited warranty expires six months after the install date.” Thus my May 2009 airtight sealed ink cartridges will decided to “break” if I don’t use as much color ink as possible in the precious three months I have (or less according to the wording) after the install date.
That would make one “mad as h*ll and not want to take it anymore.” I figured I was doing them a favor upgrading to their new printer. It turns out I was better off with their old clunkier system. (Still a ripoff but not with such OBVIOUSLY BLATANT PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE! Sheesh! I had no choice of printer, the school chose for me. I spend my OWN money often on the ink.

I can see all 3 primary colors coming out of the jets when pressed to paper. I have not played with the contacts it just decided to stop working. What a waste. I could have printed on full color since now what is a perfectly good cartridge has literally “broken itself.”

A POX on HP. Yep, hook us on your printers and hook us on your overpriced ink like junkies in need of an ink FIX (pun intended because THEY decide when the ink is “broken”.)

They make nice computers but, sheesh, doesn’t it occur to marketing that we’d likely buy MORE ink and use MORE ink (out of out of PURE convenience) to PRINT more if it the price of ink wasn’t so close dang high? I’d rather drive to a store for old technology photographic PRINTS than use their overpriced ink to PRINT a picture (the former is more stable and looks better). I try to conserve color. You can print a couple of 8 x10s with JET INK for FAR MORE $$$ than the cost of real photographic prints made with expensive chemicals not just magnetic colored water!

Yep, that’s it is pure greed.

I will be looking at other brands once that expensive ink (I spent a lot of SCHOOL $ on a VERY few cartridges.) is all used up. At this rate that should only be a month or two more and I will have a LOT of ink sloshing in outdated cartridges. What a waste! H.P. gets their $$$ and I don’t even GET the INK for which I already paid so DEARLY. My money has no expiration date but their “high tech” cartridges can’t be built to be dependable for longer than just a year or two?????
Oh, the PRINTER can stand up for 4 or 5 years but not their little tiny cartridges? That is absurd! It is wasting the taxpayer $$$$ while H.P. laughs all the way to the bank! Then when I read the post about ditched the R&D on cancer I realized how evil greed can be.
Finally there are very few printer choices that don’t follow the “disposable”/ recyclable (often junk!) cartridges. I bought a few “guaranteed” refilled types and found that sometimes they work but often they don’t! Yes I should send them back but they’re hoping it’s too much bother which it is if you figure the cost of your time and shipping.
Meanwhile they happily ask you to send them back for refills. If they’re so dang fragile how can they be so EASILY refilled? Oh yes, they just put in more ink and reset the time stamp chip! (hopefully they never got clogged as many actually are after purchased.)
Yes, we’re foolish to buy cheap printers but they don’t have to charge nearly so much for a bit of high tech plastic and so little ink. Why not knock off $25.00 and you’ll STILL make a profit in the long run. Oh, right but not AS MUCH. Gotta serve that great deity….PROFIT. (Oh… it’s for the *shareholders*… many of which own half the company.)

Since the electrical internal date stamp tells it “break” since even though I bought them new just a few months ago, the cartridges have an expiration date of long ago. So now I can expect to get half the use of literally HUNDREDS of dollars of INK bought recently!

The printer won’t even LET ME print when IT decides “oh… you’re out of ink now.” It doesn’t even TRY. At least the old ones TRIED.

What amazes me is that these “engineering wonders” can’t have a warranty longer than a two years, when I received them they were nearly already past their expiration. The FINE PRINT says “limited warranty expires six months after the install date.” Thus my May 2009 cartridges sealed in airtight plastic with a cover over the ink jets will just “break” if I don’t use as much color ink as possible in the precious three months I have (or less according to the wording) after the install date.
That would make one “mad as h*ll and not want to take it anymore.” I figured I was doing them a favor upgrading to their new printer. It turns out I was better off with their old clunkier system. (Still a ripoff but not with such OBVIOUSLY BLATANT “ENGINEERED IN” PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE! Grrrrr.

I can see all 3 primary colors coming out of the jets when pressed to paper. I have not played with the contacts it just decided to stop working. What a wasted. I could have printed on full color since now what is a perfectly good cartridge has literally “broken itself.”

A POX on HP. Yep, hook us on your printers and hook us on your overpriced in like junkies in need of an ink FIX (pun intended because THEY decide when the ink is “broken”.)

They make nice computers but, sheesh, doesn’t it occur to marketing that we’d likely buy MORE ink and use MORE ink (out of out of PURE convenience) to PRINT more if it the price of ink wasn’t so close dang high? I’d rather drive to a store than use their overpriced ink for a picture. I try to conserve color. You can print a couple of 8 x10s with JET INK for FAR MORE $$$ than the cost of real photographic prints made with expensive chemicals not just magnetic colored water!

Yep, that’s it is pure greed.

I will be looking at other brands once that expensive ink (I spent a lot of SCHOOL $ on a VERY few cartridges.) is all used up. At this rate that should only be a month or two more and I will have a LOT of ink sloshing in outdated cartridges. What a waste, they have their $$$ and I don’t even GET the INK for which I already paid so DEARLY – funny my money has no expiration date but their “high tech” cartridges can’t be built to be dependable for longer than just a year or two????? Oh, the printer can stand up for years and years but not their little tiny cartridges? That is absurd! It is wasting the school’s and the teacher’s and other individual’s $$$$ while H.P. laughs all the way to the bank!