On and On and On
With all the recent controversy surrounding the amount of ink left in printer cartridges when the printer tells you that they are empty we are conducting an interesting experiment here at Stinkyink Towers. We have a HP colour laserjet Multi Function Machine which we use as the office Fax/Copier and general colour printer. We have had a message on the little screen saying order supplies and indicating that the black, cyan, yellow and Imaging Drum all need replacing. These have been on screen for six weeks now and guess what? - it just keeps right on printing!. We’ve got the stock of consumables here so I’m just going to let it keep going until it actually stops printing. It will be very interesting seeing how much extra we get out of the toner cartridges
July 25th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Hi,
with reference to the test you are running to see how long the cartridges last after they say they are empty. I have been doing what you do since I had a HP, at least 6 years, and you are right, the cartridge will go on printing for ages, I have had one go on for 2 months! like you i always wait until they really are empty and have saved a fortune.
July 26th, 2007 at 9:05 am
It has just run out!!!, yesterday the 24th of July the Black cartridge stopped printing and flashed up to change it. It has been running on empty since March!. I still have Cyan and Yellow and the Drum unit showing empty, but still printing. I’ve put a compatible toner in and will be interested to see how that performs against the HP in terms of the usage monitoring (the actual print quality is as good as the original)