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    From David@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 9 12:34:17 2022
    My HP colour laser printer is running out of black.

    I couldn't remember quite what I did in October 2018 so I now have to hunt through and see if I changed all the (small original) cartridges or if
    there is anything left in anything.

    Possibly I swapped out everything and held the partly used ones as spare;
    I have a vague memory of running out of blue because of all the blue
    themed documents I printed.

    The printer certainly filled its remit of occasional large double sided
    print runs and long periods of no printing without gumming up (as previous inkjets did).

    I'm now wondering how to tell how full the other cartridges are because
    they were not direct from HP (which would have cost significantly more
    than the printer).

    The immediate decision, I think, if should I just buy black or should I go
    for the full kit?

    So long since I had to do anything that I've taken the printer for granted
    and will have to relearn how to fettle it.

    Cheers



    Dave R

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to David on Sat Jul 9 13:46:27 2022
    David wrote:

    I'm now wondering how to tell how full the other cartridges are

    If the printer is ethernet connected, it will almost certainly have a web page telling you that, otherwise trawl through the front-panel menu to find how to print a status sheet that will tell you ...

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  • From David@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Wed Jul 13 15:14:25 2022
    On Sat, 09 Jul 2022 13:46:27 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

    David wrote:

    I'm now wondering how to tell how full the other cartridges are

    If the printer is ethernet connected, it will almost certainly have a
    web page telling you that, otherwise trawl through the front-panel menu
    to find how to print a status sheet that will tell you ...

    Control panel and printed status report say there is still toner left.
    However there are faint patches over part of the black printout.

    I have tried gently shaking the toner cartridge but this doesn't seem to
    have improved things much, if at all.

    Cheers



    Dave R


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  • From Adrian Caspersz@21:1/5 to David on Thu Jul 14 12:03:42 2022
    On 13/07/2022 16:14, David wrote:
    On Sat, 09 Jul 2022 13:46:27 +0100, Andy Burns wrote:

    David wrote:

    I'm now wondering how to tell how full the other cartridges are

    If the printer is ethernet connected, it will almost certainly have a
    web page telling you that, otherwise trawl through the front-panel menu
    to find how to print a status sheet that will tell you ...

    Control panel and printed status report say there is still toner left. However there are faint patches over part of the black printout.

    I have tried gently shaking the toner cartridge but this doesn't seem to
    have improved things much, if at all.


    Have a dig around this YouTube channel

    https://www.youtube.com/user/viandant5


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  • From Abandoned_Trolley@21:1/5 to David on Thu Jul 14 15:55:13 2022
    On 09/07/2022 13:34, David wrote:
    My HP colour laser printer is running out of black.

    I couldn't remember quite what I did in October 2018 so I now have to hunt through and see if I changed all the (small original) cartridges or if
    there is anything left in anything.

    Possibly I swapped out everything and held the partly used ones as spare;
    I have a vague memory of running out of blue because of all the blue
    themed documents I printed.

    The printer certainly filled its remit of occasional large double sided
    print runs and long periods of no printing without gumming up (as previous inkjets did).

    I'm now wondering how to tell how full the other cartridges are because
    they were not direct from HP (which would have cost significantly more
    than the printer).

    The immediate decision, I think, if should I just buy black or should I go for the full kit?

    So long since I had to do anything that I've taken the printer for granted and will have to relearn how to fettle it.

    Cheers



    Dave R


    Long ago and far away ....

    there used to be a very helpful web site called fixyourownprinter.com

    ("helpful" = meaning that it helped me fix my laser printer)

    The web site has disappeared, but it looks like the owners may have
    turned it in to a FaceBook page. I cant make any comment on it because I
    am not a FaceBook user, but it might be worth looking at ..




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