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I have a spare newly-supplier-serviced HP Color LaserJet 5550dtn with three A3 trays, though it prints A4 quite happily. Duplex. Ethernet. Fully expanded memory. Colour. 5000+ pages of toner installed. £300 if you fancy a drive into Cornwall to collect it. It sits in a corner and purrs quietly when I send it a print job. The 5550 doesn't take a scanner head, I always thought that was an omission. It would be just at the right height to not have to bend if it existed. On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 16:11, Brad Rogers <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 15:53:53 +0100 > Neil <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello Neil, > > >I have had this printer for nearly 8 years, and have never had problems > >with any black cartridges before. So I did not realise that there could > > Same. Until recently ( a year or so ago). I suspect something flaky in > the really cheap carts. > > >be a problem. I of course thought that I had not inserted the black > >cartridge correctly, but the chap in the shop said it was fine. > > First time I thought it was me, too. > > >Oops, just had a call from the shop, and the printer itself has gone > >wrong somewhere. For the cost of replacement parts I could buy a new > >one. No brainer. So, here we go again, > > Bugger. Sorry to hear that. Despite the issues with carts (non-OEM > admittedly), I still prefer HP printers over others - they seem to offer > better connection options for a start: wireless & wired, rather than one > or t'other, as standard. Of course, I could be wrong and other firms do > the same now. > > As we all (probably) know, most printer manufacturers sell their printer > at or near cost, making the real money on ink cartridges. After all, it > can cost over £300 a litre. No wonder there's such a competitive > non-OEM market. > > Last time I had to buy a printer, I bought the same model as I had > previously. It got killed due to a lightning strike. Can't blame HP > for that. Took out printer, telephone master socket & network card in > computer. We were lucky - one of our neighbours lost over a grands > worth of electronic (TV, audio & computer) gear. Ours amounted to £80 > quid for a new printer and ethernet card (BT supplying new master socket > for free, of course). > > -- > Regards _ > / ) "The blindingly obvious is > / _)rad never immediately apparent" > Down the stairs no one cares, he who wins is he who dares > Disco Man - The Damned > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > https://mailman.dcglug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dcglug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq