I don’t usually have a rant, but this time I think it’s appropriate. Maybe not, you correct me if needed. I suppose we’re all entitled to an opinion.
This is me loosing it at the printer
I was tearing my hear out. But what happened to lead to this? Well, I’ve been using inkjet forever, or at least since I found a need to print in colour. I’ve had a laser printer before. It died one day and I was covered in black shit. No, It didn’t die a violent death. After it had stopped to work I just tried to find out how it works. I ended up in a monumental mess. But I learnt a lot from it.
Back to my inkjet issue I had. It stopped to print in black. No big deal. Just change the cartridge and be done with it. Ah, not this little puppy. I’m outraged at the price of ink cartridges. You buy a printer with $100 and that seems to be an expensive entry level printer. Once the ink in it’s tiny reservoir has depleted, you’re staring at $100 worth of replacement ink. What? The ink is almost more expensive than the whole unit itself?
I found a solution. Went online and searched for replacement ink that is cheaper than stock. I cam across some refillable ones. Tops i thought, lets try it out. That was a number of years ago. I kept refilling the cartridges. At first it was all fine until the printer started to complain. It made me feel like a criminal. It accused me of using counterfeit cartridges. I just dismissed the messages.
For years it worked fine. Until the cartridges were getting a bit old and I started to replace them. The printers messages became more aggressive. It told me that the warranty is void if I continue using these counterfeit cartridges. It also will hold my goats hostage until I install genuine cartridges.
Stubborn me didn’t want to give in that easily. We were at loggerheads. I refused to install genuine cartridges and the printer refused to print in a straight line and clear. Until it had enough and said it can’t print because there is no connection!?
Like an old mule it just stopped. I could scan and read my memory card from the printer, so there WAS a connection, but it refused to print!
I had no choice. It was about to abduct my goats and cut it’s hooves off one by one if I don’t give in and install genuine cartridges. Luckily I had an emergency pack in the back. I think the printer knew this. I ditched the counterfeit cartridges and installed a brand new set of genuine HP inkjet cartridges and guess what:
It works!
That little piece of shit had it his way. How come that we have to install genuine ink that costs so much? I rather pay more for the printer and get my ink cheaper. This would be like buying a Ferrari for $1000. bargain, right? Yeah, until you need to fill ‘er up. $100 per litre of unleaded, thanks. So you just buy a new one and chuck the old one in a hole in the Australian desert.
Ridiculous!
Rant over.
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