Is it just my bad-luck, or has the quality of new HP inkjet cartridges and the refilled-ones on Ebay and Amazon gone to hell?
I've been an HP-exclusive printer-user for over 30-years, and it used to be that you could buy a new one HP factory-cartridge and get months of refills out of it before the contacts in the back wore-thru, or the inkjets became irrevocably-clogged. I used to buy HP94 cartridges for my HP 9800 printer-plotter and it would plot many reams of 11x17" paper before it finally failed to work after refilling. Recently I've been getting maybe one ream or two before the cartridge failed, and a greatly-reduced number of pages out of a fresh factory cartridge before the first-filling. Sometimes I could go nearly a year between having to purchase a new HP factory-cartridge. Now it's barely a month or two. Recently new factory HP92 cartridges for my HP6320 printer/copier now barely survive two, maybe three refills. I'm starting to suspect that HP is recycling cartridges and selling them as "new".
The "re-manufactured cartridges" I've tried from EBay and Amazon have down-right sucked lately. They either come with barely-enough ink for 100-pages, or more often recently have been arriving "light" and empty -- or are incapable of working after a first-refill. Of the last 10-cartridges I've purchased through Amazon, 7 were "light" empty cartridges that refused to print even after refilling. An addl. 2 worked out of the packaging, but refused to work after refilling, and the last one last only 3 refills. The last 4 from Gigatoner were all empty non-functioning duds right out of the sealed packaging.
Several of the big-box office-supply stores have been offering the Epson Work-force WF-7620 11x17" printer-plotter-scanner for about $200, I'm going to buy one tomorrow. Apparently the Epson print-jets are part of the printer itself instead of disposable, and you just replace or refill the ink-reservoirs. The WF-7620 has two paper-trays so I don't need two printers anymore, and it can copy and scan 11X17" (yay!!)
I'm fed-up with being an HP inkjet cartridge victim...
I've been an HP-exclusive printer-user for over 30-years, and it used to be that you could buy a new one HP factory-cartridge and get months of refills out of it before the contacts in the back wore-thru, or the inkjets became irrevocably-clogged. I used to buy HP94 cartridges for my HP 9800 printer-plotter and it would plot many reams of 11x17" paper before it finally failed to work after refilling. Recently I've been getting maybe one ream or two before the cartridge failed, and a greatly-reduced number of pages out of a fresh factory cartridge before the first-filling. Sometimes I could go nearly a year between having to purchase a new HP factory-cartridge. Now it's barely a month or two. Recently new factory HP92 cartridges for my HP6320 printer/copier now barely survive two, maybe three refills. I'm starting to suspect that HP is recycling cartridges and selling them as "new".
The "re-manufactured cartridges" I've tried from EBay and Amazon have down-right sucked lately. They either come with barely-enough ink for 100-pages, or more often recently have been arriving "light" and empty -- or are incapable of working after a first-refill. Of the last 10-cartridges I've purchased through Amazon, 7 were "light" empty cartridges that refused to print even after refilling. An addl. 2 worked out of the packaging, but refused to work after refilling, and the last one last only 3 refills. The last 4 from Gigatoner were all empty non-functioning duds right out of the sealed packaging.
Several of the big-box office-supply stores have been offering the Epson Work-force WF-7620 11x17" printer-plotter-scanner for about $200, I'm going to buy one tomorrow. Apparently the Epson print-jets are part of the printer itself instead of disposable, and you just replace or refill the ink-reservoirs. The WF-7620 has two paper-trays so I don't need two printers anymore, and it can copy and scan 11X17" (yay!!)
I'm fed-up with being an HP inkjet cartridge victim...