[dba-Tech] HP 3820

Tina:

New one didn't work either.  Looks like my 7 year old gets to take apart
another printer.

Rocky


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tina Norris Fields" <tinanfields at torchlake.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues"
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 4:02 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] HP 3820


> Hi Rocky,
>
> There's something I recall about ink cartridges and HP printers (Canon,
> too, probably others) - the newer ones have some kind of "is this a new
> cartridge?" electronic recognition.  That's why refilling them doesn't
> work well anymore. (Yes, some of us really did do that - cartridges are
> expensive.)   So, the cartridge that came from the printer that is
> working has already given up its "new" status when it went into that
> working printer.  The printer not working may really need a new
> cartridge, and it just is not being fooled by the cartridge you borrowed
> from the working printer.  Try a really new cartridge and see if that
works.
>
> Otherwise, yup, you may have come to a moment of failure of some little
> component on the printed circuit board - and to repair it will take two
> or three bench hours of a skilled technician (if you can find anyone
> even willing to try), which will cost a bunch more than a new printer.
>  (I, too, will withhold my rant on the "disposable" attitude of our
> society - but someday, let's have a go at that one!)  Sorry.
>
> HTH
> Tina
>
> Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software wrote:
>
> >Here's a question that's pretty far off the beaten path even for this
list.
> >
> >I have two HP3820 printers.  One works, one doesn't.  The one that
doesn't has a blinking light which indicates that a new ink cartridge is
required.  So I took the cartridges out of the one that works and put them
into the one that doesn't, but the light still blinks.  I believe that it is
not 'seeing' one (or more) of the cartridges.
> >
> >The printer is too cheap to repair.  But I hate to just toss it.  It IS
an elegant piece of hardware.  (The rant against our disposable society I
will withhold, here.)   Maybe someone knows (or can speculate) on which
component might be at fault.  Maybe some ink got on a sensor?  Who knows?
(That's why I'm writing, of course.  To find out who knows.)
> >
> >Best to all,
> >
> >Rocky Smolin
> >Beach Access Software
> >http://www.e-z-mrp.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
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