Printersd

[Dick7Access]

Ok printer wizards, straighten out my brain. My two Epson ET 3830 were great printers, for a year and a half. Then it seems the nozzles get clogged. Nothing I try works to unclogged them. I even tried dynamite. I am looking for a better way. Looked at other brand ink tank printers and maybe going back to the cartage printers. Cartages have a built in code to make them go dry one minute after the stores close. It’s been so long since I used cartridges printers, so I don’t remember what trouble I had with them. I am assuming, (but dont know for sure) that the cartridges are just the reservoir, and they thus still have nozzles and would be prone to getting clogged. One I looked at was HP Officejet Pro 9125e. has anybody had good or bad luck with it? Any other advice you might have would be helpful.

 

[June7]

I have old cartridge printers: Brother MFC-J1410W and HP Envy 7645.
The Brother cartridges don't appear to have any electronics, just a reservoir as you noted.
The HP cartridges have what looks like electronics, maybe why they are so expensive.
I am going to try refilling cartridges.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

HP cartridges have enough electronics to know how old they are and will politely decline to work after a while. My most recent HP printer got to the point that the print heads were streaky and left blurs here and there on the page.

I'm a little bit surprised that the Epsons buggered up on you. There are at least two "flavors" of ECO-tank ink, though. It should not have allowed you to use the wrong ink, but I guess if something contaminated the ink it could do that for you. Had you stored the ink near something hot?

 

[Dick7Access]

HP cartridges have enough electronics to know how old they are and will politely decline to work after a while. My most recent HP printer got to the point that the print heads were streaky and left blurs here and there on the page.

I'm a little bit surprised that the Epsons buggered up on you. There are at least two "flavors" of ECO-tank ink, though. It should not have allowed you to use the wrong ink, but I guess if something contaminated the ink it could do that for you. Had you stored the ink near something hot?

Doc, what is meant by cartridges having electronics.
No I only used Epson Ink
Of course they were near something hot, but I cant change who I am.

 

[June7]

Here's what the cartridges look like.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

As I understand it, it is not at all uncommon for a cartridge to have its own built-in heads so that when you replace the cartridge you get new heads. However, for the ECO-tank system, that doesn't happen. I've got an EPSON 4700 series machine and it behaves itself pretty well.
Though perhaps I'll run a low-level cleaning on it tonight.

 

[Gasman]

I used to have an inkjext for my SSAFA volunteering. However I rarely printed and used more ink cleaning the nozzles when I came to use it.
I did not really need colour so went to a cheap laser printer.

I now have a Brother MFC-2700DW laser multi function device. No longer volunteering with SSAFA, so gets used even less, but works when I need it, without any hassle.

 

[Dick7Access]

I used to have an inkjext for my SSAFA volunteering. However I rarely printed and used more ink cleaning the nozzles when I came to use it.
I did not really need colour so went to a cheap laser printer.

I now have a Brother MFC-2700DW laser multi function device. No longer volunteering with SSAFA, so gets used even less, but works when I need it, without any hassle.

Thanks but I print every days when I am home. Absolutely need color so they can see my smiling face