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General => Technical Help => Topic started by: Calverley Lad on Saturday 13 May 23 11:14 BST (UK)
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Following a software update all HP inkjet printers have now stopped working!
Only solution is to use HP inks.
[Daughter currently using a HP printer]
Brian
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Disgusting - but I must remember as I've got an HP Deskjet!!
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I saw that yesterday. Luckily I don't have an HP printer
This link
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/hp-rolls-out-new-update-26900223
Other reports are on paywall sites, etc.
Add
Not all HP printers have dynamic security enabled. The feature is typically found in certain inkjet printers and laser printers. HP provides information on their website and packaging to indicate which printers have dynamic security enabled.
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Can you not ask the computer to go to an earlier back up date and see if this gets round the problem and then do not update the drivers to the printer?
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There was an article about this in the Times this morning. Strangely, I’m about to buy a new printer and I was looking at an HP. Guess what I’m not going to buy now!
I’ve always had a feeling that printers are sold cheaply as the manufacturers can sell ink/toner at silly prices and often wondered how the stuff compares price wise, weight for weight, with other valuable materials.
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By shopping around and looking for special offers, I pay a similar amount for a large capacity Canon colour ink cartridge (15ml) as for one of the less exclusive bottles of single malt whisky (70cl), so the ink is around 45-50 times more expensive. Admittedly the ink lasts longer than the single malt, but not 45 times longer ;D ;D ;D
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By shopping around and looking for special offers, I pay a similar amount for a large capacity Canon colour ink cartridge (15ml) as for one of the less exclusive bottles of single malt whisky (70cl), so the ink is around 45-50 times more expensive. Admittedly the ink lasts longer than the single malt, but not 45 times longer ;D ;D ;D
What a superb comparison ;D
Not a fan of whisky myself but I wonder how the printer ink compares with Belgian Chocolate
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What a superb comparison ;D
Not a fan of whisky myself but I wonder how the printer ink compares with Belgian Chocolate
On this occasion the ink will last MANY MANY MANY MANY etc. etc. etc. times longer :o
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No idea about the chocolate but apparently the price is seven times that of the finest champagne.
I have an HP printer, I only once used a non genuine cartridge and the print quality was rubbish so I've stuck to the real thing.
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According to Which in a published review there were 28 different HP printers which used this technology although they also found that a number of Epson printers also flagged up the use of third party cartridges.
PS they estimated that printer ink worked out to be about £1300 per pint
https://press.which.co.uk/whichpressreleases/pint-of-printer-ink-thatll-be-1300-please-which-reveals-the-eye-watering-cost-of-branded-printer-ink/
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I finally got fed up with inkjet colour printer jets clogging through infrequent use of the colours, realised that I don't actually need a colour printer anymore and went for a monochrome laser printer instead. It's perfect. I'll never buy another inkjet printer.
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Exactly the reason why I’m looking for a new printer; although I want a colout laser.
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Exactly the reason why I’m looking for a new printer; although I want a colout laser.
Some good information on here:- scroll down below the advertised printers.
https://www.printerland.co.uk/printers/laser/colour
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A barristers thoughts on this.
Well worth watching if you own an HP printer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQnRrhgR68c
Fisherman
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There is a huge tendency these days for companies to try to control the things we buy and the way we use them.
The business model goes back to King Camp Gillette, who sold his razors for peanuts and made a fortune from selling the razor blades, at least until other companies made them too.
These days technology makes it feasible to check exactly what is happening to the things they sell.
Car manufacturers install features which they disable unless you pay your monthly subscription.
Have a doorbell with a camera so you can see who is outside? It won't work unless you pay your subscription, or in some cases buy a replacement because the manufacturer has declared the unit "too old", though it was only bought last week.
A treadmill or exercise bike from that company which does a lot of telly ads? Without a valid subscription the brakes are locked on. No pain, no gain, so they make sure that you feel the pain in your wallet.
Mobile phone makers refuse to let you repair their handsets. Of course you can send it off to their "repair centre" for a month to have £30 worth of parts fitted for "only" £600, and it will be returned with all your precious photos destroyed, but these days you are not a "customer", just another stream of revenue. They will do their best to get that broken phone into landfill and sell you a new one.
So it is not surprising that HP (and others) are taking the opportunity to try to increase their revenue. You may need to keep copies of the original ads to fight them. If the ad said "HP recommends HP Inks" or some such, that implies that other inks would work, and they have stolen that advertised feature from you.
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And there was I worrying about the future use of A.I. Seems the future is already here in a different guise.......
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I have always had Epson printers and bought compatible inks online and although a warning flags up, they have always worked, however, having recently bought a new model I haven't needed to buy cartridges yet. The other models always had five cartridges but the one I have now, takes six.
Carol
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Have a doorbell with a camera so you can see who is outside? It won't work unless you pay your subscription
Mine works perfectly well, the sub is only if you want to save all recordings.
Debra :)
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So glad that I changed my long-term habit of having HP printers last year when I was thoroughly fed up of the overcomplications that they'd added to basic printers.
Swapped to an Epson ecotank which is a more expensive printer but it's a revolution in ink! No cartridges! Very economical ink usage - I still haven't re-filled it.
Print quality is Ok but not brilliant, and its a bit slow but otherwise very cheap to run!
kn
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When it comes to printers I have 2.
1 hard wired (no wireless connection) to my desktop.
2nd wireless printer purchased to be used by my 2 laptops.
Both printers are Epson and no problems using compatable inks, other than a brief message on my wireless printer telling me the ink carts are not genuine Epson.
Brian
I have used HP printers in the past, stopped using when inks started getting very expensive.
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After we moved house I had a tussle with the HP printer I`d bought only a few months earlier, partly my fault as I forgot to get the BT engineer to connect it online for me, it ended up being thrown out!!
I bought a cheap Canon printer ( hard wired), prints are fine but copying not so sharp. I`ve just bought a new black cartridge from a company I`ve used before, the one I bought the printer from wanted twice the price !
I`ll see how long this cartridge lasts.