Most of the low ink won't print is down to the "legal" ink waste of it's modern hidden printed fingerprint, printer brand, time, wifi id, image filename & more gets embedded in qr style dots in the printout, that's designed for preventing fake money printing, but it wastes ink every single printout.
I was ready to toss mine the other day when it wouldn’t align the printer with non-HP ink cartridges. I just carried on without the alignment. Will probably replace at the end of this ink order.
Guess I’m lucky. Only had HP printers and they’ve lasted years with no issues. Signed up for the print program and get new cartridges before I run out of ink.
Don’t make ewaste, just ignore the ink empty warnings and buy a refill kit. Most modern printers/HP can be refilled simply by just dripping ink on to the foam pad. Then buy a toner printer after if you print often to save tons of money.
I know, right?! I swear I'm not a shill, but I had a bunch of ink printers, then 19 years ago(!) I got a Brother HL-2040 and well, that was that. By now I print like 20 pages a year, and it's great, it just works. I don't even *know* how old my current cartridge is, but 10 years easily.
This. A neighbor upgraded to a wireless one and tossed their old one...figured I'd at least have to buy toner for the monster...that was 5 years ago. The fuser went on the last one before it ran out of ink.
Pro tip: if you run out of black on a dot matrix printer you can give the ribbon a few squirts of wd40 and rotate it around a couple times and it'll reflow the pigment and give you another few hundred or thousand pages from the ribbon. Dot matrix printers are incredibly cost effective, too.
I've got 4. They're basically free. And ribbons cost less than $20 on average, print millions of characters. Some fantastic folks also reproduce color ribbons for the apple imagewriter ii! Also, they're great for printing tattoo stencils on spirit paper, don't even need a good ribbon then.
My kid used to have to turn in school papers printed in all green sometimes. 😕 Current printer sometimes refuses to acknowledge a cartridge like a dog spitting out a pill.
This has a probability of working only if the printer has a separate black cartridge dedicated for text. For printers with just the four CMYK cartridges this trick does nothing.
If it's a toner, giving it a good beating actually works. The powder gets a little stuck and a few good snacks with the hand shakes it up. It doesn't need to be too hard. I think shaking works too, but it doesn't let my anger against the printer out as effectively.
Another tip: don’t allow your printer to do automatic updates. If you use third party ink/toner, it will eventually brick the device until you use the name brand. Even Brother started doing this. Turn off updates!
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You have to heat up the paper to read it…
https://inksaver.co.za/blog/how-to-bypass-the-low-ink-warning-on-your-inkjet-printer/
So I don't think this is going to work.
But it's not like their used market will ever die.
Got to love those verge articles, 'the best printer is whatever brother laser is on sale'
I can see why corps push inkjet so hard cuz brother's consumer-grade lasers don't seem like a sustainable business model??
If someone told me I'd never have to clean clogged cartridges or deal w sketchy 3P ink to save $ again...
Laser printers are the dogs of inanimate objects.
HP was great once.