Comments on: Can You Read Me Now

By: susan

susan — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:20:29 +0000

i know what you mean about the cartridge scam…when three cartrideges cost more than a new printer you know something is amiss. i notice thou, some are coming down in price. i have a cannon ink jet and they use three color and i black…so i change when each one is in need plus at wal mart, they are like $14 a piece…now that i think of that, when you add it up…oh well…nice blog by the way. if you stop by mine and leave a comment you are sign up for a drawing to win some of my handdyed fabric.

By: Administrator

Administrator — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:50:38 +0000

OK, I’m definitely going to be shaking my toner cartridges before recycling. Thank you Jean!

Minka, that’s how I ended up buying the 2015! it didn’t print very well on the default settings and I almost returned it. After talking with the sales line I started tweaking everything on both machines and came up with the magical settings.

By: Minka

Minka — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:35:42 +0000

Thank you! My solutions was to buy a black and white laser printer but, I’m saving your directions because I still have the color printer! The price of ink is clearly where they decided to make their money — my color printer only add $10 to the cost of my computer!

By: Jean C.

Jean C. — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:25:33 +0000

Kathy, my SIL works for a firm as a computer tech… one other thing you might want to know; that when you get the msg. that says that your ink cart. is low… take it out and shake it really hard/both color/blk&wh and put them back. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve managed to make them last sooo much longer. My SIL mentioned that 9 outta 10 times when people go to replace/refill cart. they are still at least a third or more full, so if your refilling your paying to refill all the way and not getting your money’s worth. Also if you throw out the old w/out shaking your lossing out on a lot of ink!

By: Administrator

Administrator — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:54:14 +0000

I’m glad this info helped. Printers have definitely become all about the ink replacement and not about the cost of the printer itself. I remember paying $1,000 for our first HP laser jet printer almost 20 years ago. That printer ran for years and years and the toner only seemed to run out every 18 months!

As for the kids, both our printers are network accessible from any computer in the house. I changed the default settings for every computer in the ‘Printers and Faxes’ window so the printer comes up in the B&W mode, if you want to print color you need to override and set the color options in the Printer Properties for each document before printing.

By: kelly

kelly — Thu, 01 May 2008 10:33:21 +0000

i try to always remember to use the grayscale settings, it really does help. now ifmy kids would just play along. thanks for the other hints too. i am going to print those out and put them on my
printer. great info. my hp just died. the fuser went out and of course, it is way cheaper to buy a new laserjet than to buy a fuser.
it amazes me that toner cost as much as just buying the darn printer.

i am withyou….i live a simple life.

peace.

By: Alicia88

Alicia88 — Thu, 01 May 2008 08:42:44 +0000

I had just the same problemos.
After reading your post – it’s solved.
Thank you

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:30:20 +0000

I have the same printer. I use it for non-crafty work but do print a lot of b&w reports, etc. I’ll have to remember this-I’m sure it will save me…Thanks!

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:54:40 +0000

Thank you Kathy! What a helpful post, I’m glad I got a chance to look at your blog today!
Tiffany

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:35:59 +0000

My only advice I have for this issue is buy a laser jet printer that uses toner and on the few times you really, really, really need to print in color, go to Kinkos.
I have, however, saved your instructions for the people in my life who need them!
Beautiful pictures!