it feels good to be a gangster.

that needs to be taken care before I can print, so I usually decide to hell with it. It won't print in black even with a new cartridge

when you've spent an hour on the GD phone with the printer manufacturer.....and contacted MS....

it's probably a hardware problem that cannot be fixed unless you want to gut the thing and replace the innards. Nope, not worth it to me.

Good luck with your printer!

the minute you buy it. I had an expensive multifunction printer that did everything but make coffee, but I seldom used it and never took full advantage of all the features, but I had to buy it. It was still brand new, but it couldn't be upgraded to match all the new developments on my computers so it became a very large paperweight. It makes me have a panic attack to toss things away when my inner frugal self is screaming they should still be functioning.

My latest, only the chip-containing cartridges sent in the mail from HP work in my HP printer, because they let the company know when I'm running out of ink. They are counting the number of pages I've printed via Wi-Fi. Can't use off the shelf ink. Me smells a rat. Printer doesn't tell me I'm out of ink, but I get an email from HP. ??????

Have stated time and time again that they could actually give printers away if they could force you to buy the ink just from them...

unpredictably, spend an hour or two going through all the Troubleshooting runarounds, then 45 minutes with Tech support, and nothing works. Then the NEXT DAY, turn on and voila it's working (for the time being).

I don't print much, but when I need it right now, it's NOT connected. It's 7 months old and am ready to take a bat to it like in the O.P.

download file to flashdrive and take to kinko's, and get printed off there...just a thought...thanks for the laugh and good luck w/ printer

My new printer will arrive in a week, print the damn thing out, mail it back, bingo, I'm all good.

Thanks again

Think Office Depot will as well. If you can save it to a thumb drive, take it to 'em. My printer's B&W, but when I need a color print, I go to UPS store.

...Walgreens has a Canon 3 in 1 Wireless Printer MG3620 for $40.
You need a store loyalty account.

I just went through this with an Epson photo scanner that does film. It would work with documents and pictures but nothing with slides or film. Try all the downloads, Epson tech support for almost 2hrs...from Japan and windows tech support another two hours. Zip...nothing. This worked perfectly fine for years and a couple months ago. Apparently there is some glitch in the software the would not allow Epson menu to open. When I Googled about the problem apparently there are lots of people out there with the problem. In the end I bought new software from a private vendor works like a charm. i think something in one of the windows 10 updates corrupted the software.

I have an old HP Multi-function printer/fax/scanner my employer bought them back in 1997. Mine is the only one still in use. I had an electrical spike that killed it back when it was 6 months old. HP wanted 250 to just look at it. Our IT Dept. was going to check around so I brought it back home, left it sit for a few weeks. Before I was going to take it to the recycle place I plugged it back in, it powered up it has worked ever since. I do sometime have to unplug the connection from the computer and replug it. Something about the Port on my new Dell Desktop.

Try generic printer settings to the computer. Of course the Windows 10 Tile for printer also wants you to choose your printer, if it setup.

I have never had a problem with them.
Mine is wired to the router/modem.
I love the fact that the toner is cheap compared to ink. We print out alot of documents. I usually get a new one when the drum needs replacing.



I also have a scanner/printer color/inkjet that is wireless. That thing gives me grief. I have to run the printer every so often or the ink will clog the jets. I bought a new printer when I could not unclog the jets. Disruptions in internet/power will kick it offline and then it takes forever to set it back up again.

runs and runs. It's an extraordinarily simple printer, nothing fancy. It's the ONLY printer I've ever had that did not eventually stop or fall apart, it even works with Linux drivers. ... other than my prehistoric ribbon type Epson dot matrix printer, a real workhorse, but the dot matrix head is a little slow on web pages LOL!!! I think I got the Samsung about 2004.

.tumb

I used to have an HP-5M monochrome laser printer and it was the same. Just ran and ran, and I forget why I got rid of it. I think it was because HP would not update the drivers for Windows 7.

the same Chinese factory.

Anyway, I'm on my second Brother in maybe 10 years and the only reason I got rid of the last one is a dropped it down the stairs.

Toner cartridges are dirt cheap for these things. Too bad my local OfficeMax closed-- they were the cheapest.

toner cartridges. I get the cartridges off eBay now for a fraction of the old cost way back. They're of good quality and last. I have a Brother on another system here, one of the newer ones, that looks like this one, the one with the ink cartridge separate from the drum. So far it's been working extremely well. It's also wireless, but I've never used it, just plug it into USB.

It was like double or better in price compared to those other pieces of crap but the peace of mind and saving me time is worth it alone. I think it's going to be more economical too. It comes with the ink bottles to fill it up. I have used mine a lot and probably would have used about three black cartridges and the black ink level on this new one is only down about a tenth of a tank. I got an okay deal from Amazon, the local office stores wanted like a hundred or more dollars extra for it.

The large ink capacity was my reason for the purchase (about 8 months) but have been surprised because I haven't once had to clean the head yet.
Maybe I will do that now just to be on the safe side