[Clinging Bitterly]

> They are at the top of the price range

I agree that the old HP stuff was pricey but very good.
In 1989, I bought a DeskJet Plus for something like $800.00, but that darned thing still works just like new.
Had a Laserjet IIIp at the office that died just last year.
Got a pair of big Lexmark network lasers two years ago through Dell, and they are very fast, but one of them has had a fair bit of downtime. The toner cartridges for those babies will set you back about $300.00 a pop (but they print something like 50,000 pages of our somewhat sparsely inked invoice forms - we have been told the cheaper refills would not come close to that, and we haven't tried).

Back to the old DeskJet, I got about 400 pages from the original standard size water based HP cartridges (either new or self refilled) that you can no longer buy. The new "high capacity" HP cartridges still give me about 400 pages at 50% higher cost. NCR refills and self refills on those seem to get me about 50 pages before they spontaneously dump their remaining contents all over the inside of my printer.

Dave in Eugene

[11th Earl of Mar]

The new "high capacity" HP cartridges still give me about 400 pages at 50% higher cost. NCR refills and self refills on those seem to get me about 50 pages before they spontaneously dump their remaining contents all over the inside of my printer.

The same just happened to me. I tried to clean it out but it still won't work. Any ideas?