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16 Apr 19
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With my last printer, scanner, copier I got regular messages saying "You are using non standard Epson ink"....
Well who would pay £36 for just one set of 4 when
compatible ink can be bought for less than £20.00 for 4 sets of 4 plus extra black?
Despite their protests, I just soldiered on, till the relented!
Unfortunately on the last occasion, it was a lost cause so face with paying £36 for Epson or buying a new printer for £29.99,
it wasn't a difficult decision.....
so I bought a new printer...
I printed 7 x A6 "Grayscale" and five x A6 Colour....Hi res on gloss photo paper.....
Then I got the message "Time to buy more Epson ink"!
I printed 3 more x A6 colour and that was it....
I'm sure the provided ones couldn't have been 100% full
Initially I thought "screw them" but then thought I could be wasting money, if they won't recognise them!
Looked at Epson ink, and a "Multi Pack" was £35.59 so picked them up from Argos, and was more than a little displeased, to find only 1 set of 4!!!
Is all of the above typical with all other printer manufacturers?
Well who would pay £36 for just one set of 4 when
compatible ink can be bought for less than £20.00 for 4 sets of 4 plus extra black?
Despite their protests, I just soldiered on, till the relented!
Unfortunately on the last occasion, it was a lost cause so face with paying £36 for Epson or buying a new printer for £29.99,
it wasn't a difficult decision.....
so I bought a new printer...
I printed 7 x A6 "Grayscale" and five x A6 Colour....Hi res on gloss photo paper.....
Then I got the message "Time to buy more Epson ink"!
I printed 3 more x A6 colour and that was it....
I'm sure the provided ones couldn't have been 100% full
Initially I thought "screw them" but then thought I could be wasting money, if they won't recognise them!
Looked at Epson ink, and a "Multi Pack" was £35.59 so picked them up from Argos, and was more than a little displeased, to find only 1 set of 4!!!
Is all of the above typical with all other printer manufacturers?
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With so much propaganda about recycling etc, it is amazing how these printer manufacturers have been able to get away with selling the hardware at such low prices and the
consumables at such high prices. If I was in charge of this country it is one thing I would sort out. |
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It's an insalt
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epson are the worst sometimes genuine ink gets the error message, I have a canon one which had an ok amount of ink in it to start and the replacements are not horrendous
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That’s nothing.
Greenhalgh’s £2.10 for an, admittedly rather good, potato and meat pastie. I reckon things have gone to their head with the vegan sausage roll episode. Company doing very well apparently. |
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Printer ink more expensive by weight than saffron.
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It's loss leading. Sell printers at a loss and recoup on overpriced consumables, they've done this as long as inkjets have been sold.
Get a laser printer, they are dirt cheap these days and far superior unless you are printing photos or something. |
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I pay 1.99 per month for up to 4 replacements per year with Instant ink. Good value imo.
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mmm....don't get me started on HP...they are a disgrace as far as the UK customer is concerned!
In the USA, where they pay some 30% less for a laptop, they get sensational treatment! All we get is contempt! |
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You could try this, it works on some Epson printers:
Start by installing the cloned ink cartridge, and automatically the printer will issue a prompt “an ink cartridge cannot be recognized”. Proceed to “Start”, then “Control Panel” on the computer and double click on the “printer”. Look for the icon on the “Epson Printer” and right press and select “Printer Preferences”, regularly found at bottom of the dialog box. Click on the tab showing “Speed and Progress” and look at the Epson Printer monitor box. Turn off the ink monitor by checking off the “Disable Epson Status Monitor” found within a box. And lastly, click “Save” and close the window. That’s about it the printer and the cloned ink cartridges can now start printing operation. |
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Lady Faye, that has always been the case imo.
I can remember buying CDs in the US in the 80s and 90s for about $7-8 when they were £10-14 in the UK. And we would always be told “CDs are expensive because of the manufacturing process” bollo-x by record companies. |
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Same now. For easy comparison look at apple products. Same in USD as GBP.
£1=$1.31 exchange rate. |
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I bought a polo shirt from America which cost $18 but they charged $25 shipping. When I told them it would cost me $12 to send same package to USA, they said that postage was dearer in America.
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Hewlett Packard are exactly the same - they make it difficult to print using non compatible ink - but you can persevere and bypass it. Legally they have no case so they just try to make it difficult hoping you'll give in and use their half empty cartridges
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HP....
Bought my daughter an HP Pavilion which was just over £600.00 Can't remember if it was 17" or 19")... It went "Blue Screen" just two weeks out of warranty.... I found the e-mail contact and fired one off... It was Sunday, so didn't expect any reply, but in less than two hours they responded! It was a known problem and they would send a postal bag for a "one time only, out of warranty repair").... YEEEESSSSS!!!! NOOOOOOO!!!!!! They hadn't realised I wasn't in the US but had forwarded it to the UK. Come Friday I had no response so spoe again to the US who assured me it was sent the same day! Managed to get hold of them and they said they wouldn't repair it.... Then they would, and then they wouldn't!!! What they would do is attempt a repair for £250.00 but, if unsuccessful they would keep the £250.00! Next I asked if, out of goodwill, would they sell me one at cost... No they wouldn't, so that was the end of it! The big mistake was not referring it to "Watch Dog" who would have crucified them! In the US this model was circa £400.00! |
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Blue screens are often software problems, might be nothing to do with HP, they can be anything from a configuration fault in windows to a failed update to like a memory stick failing. Majority I've seen are software and nothing to do with the manufacturer.
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Nope.....
It was the Graphics Card, that is integral with the Mother Board, on this product! |
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As I said originally, it was a known fault that HP had acknowledged!
It's a bloody expensive repair, for the purchaser to get fixed themselves.... |
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Printers. Do you really need one? Since mine packed up, I've not replaced it and have had to ask friends to print things for me just two or three times in the last 18 months or so.
OP sounds like photos are being printed, and you'd get better quality on the high street. |
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Lady Faye Verrit • April 17, 2019 1:51 PM BST
As I said originally, it was a known fault that HP had acknowledged! You should have returned it to the place you bought it, on the grounds of not fit for purpose, requesting a repair, replacement or refund. |
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No offence, but anybody that pays £600 for an HP printer, when you can get better ones for FREE, must have too much money.
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Decent printers, inkjets or laser, colour or black & white, FREE.
You just have to agree to purchase a complete set of inks or drums when picking your FREE printer. Still huge savings on the printer and most use cheap compatible cartridges no problem. |
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There appears to be some confusion here....maybe my fault by talking of problems with HP!
This was not a printer, but a laptop...HP Pavilion! You will need to read back from the start, to see how this went off topic! As I said, I was responding to someone who talked about HP, so hence the confusion! |
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No offence, but anybody that pays £600 for an HP printer, when you can get better ones for FREE, must have too much money
It wasn't an effing printer for Christ's sake! I paid £29.99 for the printer, scanner and copier! |
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 Thanks for clarifying that .... My mistake, apologies.  |
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If you don't print much, it's another reason for a laser. Injkets love to dry out then you have to mess around trying to clean them with cotton buds, get new cartridges, or throw that damned thing out. Lasers don't suffer that problem. No wasting 1/2 the ink to "clean the nozzles" and it not working. Unless I'm printing photos on photo paper I'll never get an inkjet again.
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actually I've had two HP laptops and they have been great, one is still working after 12 years (but the battery doesn't charge and when I use it a mysterious beeping occasionally occurs) and the other still fine after after eight years - I'm using it as we sp
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