Re: ot Printer found with time set for Atlantic Ocaan

In alt.home.repair, on Sun, 02 Jan 2022 23:49:25 -0500, micky
<[email protected]> wrote:

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>Ink jet.  It's very nice, HP OfficeJet 4360.  
>....
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>Also, I haven't tried but it also lets you print directly from your cell
>phone, and probably to scan into your phone.  Plus get this, you can
>register at HP for an email address for the printer, send an attachment
>from anywhere and it will print that.  I suspect/hope the PC doesn't
>even have to be on if the printer is wifi connected to a router,
>although I'll never have any use for this.  If you're a traveling
>salesman, or someone who travels for business and wants a paper record,
>it would be great.  Any other uses? 
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>The big problem seems to be the cost of the ink.  They are about $37 for
>a black and a tri-color.  Unlike the Espson and the Brother I have,
>which I was surprised to see work fine with cruddy 3rd-party ink, HP is
>really insistent on their ink.  One of the printer utilities with 6 tabs
>includes warnings about ink in 4 of them, encouraging notifying t heir
>fraud department if you end up with counterfeit cartridges. 
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>Another tab has a way to keep your cartridges from being used in another
>printer.  Were people stealing cartridges?   But at least you can print
>with only one of them if you take out the empty one. 
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>You can buy an ink and syringe set that costs only 18 dollars and they
>say is good for 5 or 10 fillings, probably 5 because there was something
>about air being left in the cartridge, but that's still 1/10th the
>price.  However if you let the cartridge get empty, it knows about that
>and cancels itself.  You have to refill before it gets empty, and even
>then I think it threatens  you that the level indicators may not work
>after that. 
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>But the other problem is that I'm connected to the PC control panel, the
>ink level indicator, probably printing, but not for scanning. It won't
>scan (and this one has no SD slot in it so it can only scan to the PC,
>not to memory).  When you even start to scan it says I'm not connected,
>and eventually it hints that I should register with HP!   I wonder if
>this is so they can send you threatening emails if you use bad ink
>cartridges.   But even registering didn't work yet.  I'll see if it
>works after restarting the PC and the printer.   One of the instructions
>for something (not this) was to unplug the printer for a while. (For
>this they wanted you to uninstall everything, at 3 places, and reinstall
>it all. Maybe later. (and of course I already have a good Brother
>all-in-one. ) 
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>Another annoyance is their stupid webpages that have one or even two
>pop-up boxes that interfere with reading the page, and they show up
>every time for every page, even I think if you looked at the tab before
>and it reloaded when you came back.  I wrote to them last year when I
>got an HP computer about how annoying this is but they haven't changed
>it.  I wrote a firmer message this time. 
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>Also installing  the software looked simple, one big .exe to do
>everything, but then they came up with something else and I think a
>second thing.  One was software from MS.  It was confusing. 

It's still confusing.  It didn't work until I restarted windows, which
it did not say to do. 

And even though everything works now, I think, hpinkins still says "Your
installation is not complete" and refers me to the CD, which I don't
have, or to Support. It links there but doesn't say or link to whatever
it thinks I should install.   

And a box came out on the lower right that said I was no longer
connected to scan, even though I scanned with no trouble a few seconds
later.  Of course this software is 12 years old. Maybe they've gotten
rid of these bugs. 

OTOH, good things, it displayed the scanned image in miniature and let
me adjust the the brightness and contrast before saving it.  I increased
the contrast and it looked much better. The Brother and Epson didn't
have this.

It already had black ink in it that works, but I'm out of color
according to the monitor.  I came across an unopened package of NCR
Universal Color Inkjet Refill Kit that someone gave me 10 years ago!!!
I forget who, or maybe I bought it at a hamfest. Yes, I think that's it.
It still has a little label, $5, and initials, that showed who he was
selling it for.  It's still liquid and each container is full. I wonder
if it will work?  Again, I have almost nothing to lose. Pretty good
packaging, at least.  Maybe the ink is good too.   (Still for sale, $23
for color, 20 for black, only on ebay, probably as old as mine.) 

It says it has 2-sided printing also. I wish I had something that
neeeded printing. 

>(I had to install on the laptop software for the Brother printer, and
>that really was simple.) 
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>This printer may predates win10, but i'm sure that's not the problem. 

Right.  It works with win10.   The manual is copyright 2012.  So it's
doing pretty well for 9 years old.  It's worth keeping for the scanning
alone.