Refilled and ‘Compatible’ printer cartridges and the cunts that sell them.
I have an old but very trusty printer. A HP Deskjet 710c. Now, the black and white cartridges are easy to find. But you can’t get the official HP colour cartridges for love or money.
However,there are things called compatible printer cartridges. Which are old HP cartridges that have been cleaned out and refilled with ink. There’s a company that sells them,so I thought I would give it a go. Guess what? No fucking colour whatsoever.Not a single solitary fucking sausage. So, I complain (as politely as possible, you understand😉). So they send me a replacement colour cartridge.
Now, this one does print. Only thing is, there is no cyan/blue. One dud is a pain in the arse. Two is taking the piss. I have sent my rather heated complaints to the conning cunts who peddle this shit and I await their response. I will not say who they are here, because I have heard that they are right uppity cunts who value their ‘good name’ (my arse). No link for this. Only my very genuine and fire breathing fury.👿🔥🔥🔥
Nominated by: Norman
In the days when I was a useful member of society working and free of the spouse for 10 hours a day, my company bought Lexmark printers which were, to use the frightful Rayneresque expression, cheap as chips. You could buy a Lexmark for £15. The problem was to buy new cartridges would set you back £35/£40. I did find the refills offered by Cartridge World perfectly adequate, but I am not even sure that company exists today. Certainly the two branches near my place of business and near home closed down within a very short time of each other.
Often we didn’t need colour – why doesn’t somebody bring out a cheap, reliable non fussy monochrome printer for a fair price and cartridges equally as reasonable?
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Tried it once Norm, with a fucking inkjet – leaked the shite everywhere & never printed properly. Fuck that, I bought a HP colour laser (on the business) & never have any issues now, even with third-party toner cartridges.
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Yup…..laser jet all the way for me. Don’t use that fucking crap ink
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Buy a new printer Norman!
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New printers are absolute shite; you need to constantly be connected to t’internet or they won’t work.
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I’ve had similar bother with a Canon.
The business model reminds me of a dodgy market trader who flogged crappy screwdrivers which would turn but the screw wouldn’t. He gave full refunds, but the number of people who couldn’t be arsed to complain meant he made a shed load of money.
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There’s always some drill-all drill bits flogged on shopping tv, normally on a Sunday morning, which are supposed to be the bollocks. Drill through anything, stay sharp for ever- BUT if the ever do get blunt then they offer free lifetime replacements…all you have to do is pay the post and packing for which they charge you a fiver.
Must only cost them bulk to send replacements out for a quid, and this bits are another quid, so they are on to a good screw- £3 on each one returned, so these drill bits do go dull quick- no different than the cheap ones from B&Q, so you are awlays returning them for new ones. Good business set up that it.
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Blimey Norman.
Your printer is shite and worth less than a tenner.
Are you using Windows95?
Of course the ink cartridges are going to be expensive.
They have to be hand built by craftsmen.
That is now a dying trade with no youngsters coming through to learn from the old timers.
Buy another printer.
https://www.carousell.sg/p/hp-inkjet-deskjet-710c-84788768/
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And when you do bite the bullet and reluctantly fork out for a new printer, remember that they no longer accept ten bob notes or half crowns.
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Dammit I would have bought that if it had been anywhere near Kentish Town. At least they used firmer platic in those days.
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This is one woman who certainly needs a “grassy knoll ” moment
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Shouldn’t this comment be in the Meagain Markle nom?
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Tbh it does sound like Norman’s printer needs one too.
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Cancon and sEpson are in the ink business
Sealed cartridges that get smaller with each new model in the high end printers where colour reproduction is essential
Oh and on set up and priming of new printers could use half of the ink and if you run a cleaning the printer head process that uses a load of ink to purge you’ll be needing new cartridges pretty soon after purchasing.
There’s always a catch with specialized equipment
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Good Morning
The one thing I have learnt over the years is don’t stock up on ink cartridges as the time will come when your printer packs up (I am sure they have built-in obsolescence) and you won’t be able to buy the same model or one that takes your existing cartridges. The bastard print makers do it deliberately.
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l think the ones in many shops now are laser printers – requiring no ink. Trouble I have found here is, after a time the reciept becomes unreadable, meaning that if you buy an item with a guarantee, make sure it gets photocopied, or better still laminated.
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if you are referring to pdq and till receipts, then they are thermal printers. Which, as you say fade over time and yellow.
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Ink cartridges seem to be filled with liquid gold and as such are good value.
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I have no need to print anything these days but I remember a few years ago needing new cartridges and it was actually cheaper to buy a new fucking printer. Crazy.
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You need one of these, if I needed a printer one of these would be on the list of one! https://www.epson.co.uk/for-home/ecotank?cid=ps:google:etsem22-uk
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My advice to anyone would be buy an HP rather than an Epsom – they are all a load of old pony, but at least most HPs only take two cartridges, most Epsoms have at least 4 so you are paying far more.
Oh for the old Oki ribbons for dot matrix printers – they were good enough for inter-business use, and any outside communications could be dealt with by the trusty old Adler typewriter with Baskerville typeface keys. Bring back 1976 again.
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They may have 4 tanks but they are refillable and much much cheaper to buy ink for.
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Trouble I found with the one Canon we had was that there was double the risk of breaking the flimsy plastic thingmabobs that hold them in place – especially when my young assistant got her clumsy mitts on them. My favourite Lexmark was a model that took only ONE cartridge and printed colour, of a sort, and monochrome – the colour wasn’t good, but as I said didn’t norally need colour anyway – I used it for spot colour in red or blue £10 for a good refill from Cartridge World does anyone know if they are still around anywhere)? £10 my life already!c- you can see why the company was called Reuben Abrahams, can’t you?. I always ran a tight ship, already!
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I bought an Ecotank at Christmas and it’s not bad but, even before that, I was using a CISS on my Epson printer, saved a shitload on ink. I don’t print much, mostly just a test page every couple of weeks to stop the nozzles from drying up and getting blocked.
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I have found the scam of printer ink enraging for many years. First the price is fucking outrageous and deliberate because the companies ‘lose money on selling printers’ but obviously fucking coin it on selling ink. Why the fuck does an ink cartridge has a microchip in it? Actually i know why -so it can stop working if it senses someone has broken it open to refill with cheap ink. I remember seeing some enterprising internet cafe owner had heath-robinsened big litre bottles for each colour ink. If you work out how much it costs to print just a single A4 sheet, its staggering. And yesh kvd had that ‘cant print B&W because theres no colour ink. Grrrrrrr. A fully justified cunting sir.
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Best move I made was to buy a laser printer. The brother one I bought hasn’t had a new toner in years. It’s only black and white, but going strong. Ink jet can get to fuck.
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I’m surprised they haven’t been renamed ‘Printers of colour ‘
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No, that wouldn’t fit because the printers work hard and are reliable.
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Mine sits around most of the time, doing fuck all, the scanner gets much more use.
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A slight digression from black ink. I hope the England cricket team continues to do well and stay all white.
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Mrs Fistula got me to buy this all singing and dancing laser printer. Fuck me… The replacement cartridges cost a fucking packet . All i use it for is to print the occasional document or travel ticket.
I bet ere indoors has a good laugh with her mates that she got her mug of a husband to part with his hard earnt 🤬
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Printer cartridges are one of the major pains of the modern world. You can buy a shiny new printer for £20 these days. But guess what, the cartridges cost £30 a pop and last for all of 15 minutes and 4 pages of print. To add to the pain, printers break and jam every 5 minutes and lose the Wi-Fi connection. You need to be a NASA engineer to reconnect my printer to the Wi-Fi.
Piles of junk.
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I would buy a cheap laser printer, either HP or Brother and dump the old inkjet…it will cost you a fortune to run it and you’ll get average results at best.
I still use on old Oki 24pin line printer and hope that Bubblejet will be the future but both work fine with my Dos 6.22 and OS2 Warp
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Similar to me, Spank.
I still use canon bubblejets from 30 years ago, built like tanks, cheap carts on ebay, utterly reliable, handle labels easily. Unlike modern printers which foul up and misfeed regularly.
Windows XP is miles better than later versions too.
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XP is still a great OS as long as you don’t require the Internet and all its social media horrors. Running it in a box or VM just doesn’t cut it.
I can still get decent results using Dos and Wordstar using my old 486 DX2 66 and 8MB memory.
Of course, the 486 does not work on Spankbang which is a disadvantage.
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I have a laser printer that is refilled by a cheap large syringe of toner. Love it!
The HP Neverstop.
Before that a $20 ink jet that lasted about 20 years. I said a few words in honor of the faithful unit as I threw it away. It still worked too.
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And when a cartridge is a crappy one that doesn’t work, it totally fucks up the printer and it takes ages to get it back to normal again. All the lights start flashing at the same time. A total cunt….
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Printer woes. Ugh! Three tales of shite come to mind.
1) Back in the day, I had a Citizen 120D dot matrix printer. This thing was evil. If you watched it, it worked almost every single time. If you didn’t (i.e. left the room for some reason), the paper feed would mess up and jam and cause an almighty mess, wasting a ton of ribbon in the process. It was a bastard and I did eventually put it to death.
2) Had a trusty HP Deskjet 1012 printer. Worked great for years and years. Then Windows decided it wouldn’t support it anymore (Windows 7 I think). Instead of printing what you wanted, you got a witty one liner “Unsupported personality PCL”. There was a workaround by installing a different printer driver that functioned like it was a 1012, but you’d still get this message about 1 in 3 or 4 prints and would have to power off/on the printer to get it to work again. Thanks Microsoft.
3) HP can be cunts. For a while several years ago (I don’t think they do this now due to the customer backlash), HP sold their own branded laser jet cartridges with an expiration date burned into the firmware. Customers would buy in bulk and some time later would replace a cartridge with a brand new one, fresh out of the box. Only to then be presented with a message telling them the cartridge had expired. If memory serves, there was no way around this.
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No sympathy IY, it’s your own fault for using Microsoft Windows. There hasn’t been a decent version since XP.
There used to be a huge banner in the Microsoft Campus developers office in Reading where I did a brief contract once (I quit after the first week because I couldn’t take their bullshit). The banner read :
“REMEMBER THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD IS IN YOUR HANDS TODAY”
One night someone sneaked in with a red felt tip and added “We’re fucked then”
Never met such an arrogant bunch of incompetent tossers that came even close to the fuckers…
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only use black ink so when it complains the colour is empty i just take the colour cartridge out and click it back in again, it then shows as full, havent bought a colour cartridge in years only a cheapo black
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Does the black ink cartridge stab the other ink cartridges?
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Black is good
Coloured is good
Only white is bad…
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Excuse the advert, but I’ve used Cartridge People online for years. Only ever had one duff one which was replaced 1st class post with 2 replacements and a handwritten note of apology…
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