[NBLUG/talk] Printers

[Omar Eljumaily]

HP printers very often claim they're out of ink when they're not, 
sometimes even with genuine HP cartridges.  Does it really refuse to 
print, or does it just complain?  My home printer warns of an impending 
apocalypse if we print with refilled cartridges, but we do it anyway.

Omar


On 3/4/2015 11:29 AM, cecrops at sandwich.net wrote:
> My mother's printer must be one of those HP models with the circuitry rigged to
> refuse to print anything after a time period and claim she is out of ink even
> though she does not use it that often, and it says the replacement cartidges she
> got in a 4-pack of replacement cartidges are all out of ink, and she's about ready
> to throw it out a window. So being the techie in the family, I'll be recommending
> and probably buying a new printer.
>
> Looking into printers is a good opportunity to get up to date on the status of
> printing protocols and Linux compatibility where I don't know anything about the
> subject other than the fact that cups replaced lpr a while ago, and zeroconf looked
> like the new network discovery standard ten years ago but everyone stopped talking
> about it.
>
> This looks like the protocols information that I was looking for.
> http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/doc-2.0/network.html
>
>
> Questions:
>
> 1. Can someone recommend a good and affordable general-purpose printer/scanner combo
> that doesn't chip the cartidges and rip you off?
>
> 2. Are there any printer vendors that are known to NOT be Linux compatibile and
> should be avoided if Linux compatibility is an issue?
>
>
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