You\u2019ve got to love HP Printers. Slight crisis at the Sheep Pen when the smallest Sheep in the household needed to print out her homework. Of course, the black ink cartridge chooses that moment to run out, and homework has to be in tomorrow and the shops are shut. Having located a spare cartridge, I note that the \u201cinstall by\u201d date is sometime in 2003, but carry on regardless.<\/p>\n
A couple of cleaning cycles and the output, is to say the least, streaky, and it looks like nothing is getting printed tonight\u2026 however, a rinse under the tap, a few rubs with some tissue to get the ink going, and\u00a0 a print run later\u2026 the output isn\u2019t perfect, but it\u2019s better than nothing.<\/p>\n
Many years ago, at work, we dug out an old HP Deskjet (possibly a Deskjet II, that\u2019s how long ago) from a dusty store cupboard where it had sat for at least 4 years, stuck in a fresh cartridge, and away it went.<\/p>\n
Maybe you can get something cheaper,\u00a0 maybe you can get something that printers higher quality. But, they do seem to work even after being ignored for years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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