HP just burned out, with malice aforethought, the head on another 
black ink cartridge on my G85 printer. Nice job they do. ALL inkholes 
are thermally welded shut. No black ink will ever pass its lips again. 
On any gear where they don't want it to happen HP are masters of 
detecting and limiting damaging thermal overload. In situations where 
they deem it likely there is a refilled ink cartridge present they 
gleefully crank up the power and destroy the head.

It's very likely the last cartridge of mine that HP will ever have the 
honour of destroying. On this G85 or any other printer I ever buy. 
I've heard all the arguments advanced previously about various 
marketing models etc but none make enough sense to me to justify 
staying with HP. By all means use your printers and be happy. By all 
means be enslaved to their gold plated ink supplies. I'm off to see 
the world and seek my fortunes in other brands. Quite possibly I'll 
slink back into the fold whipped and whimpering a few years from now - 
but at present Canon and their refillable tanks looks like a much 
better bargain. While I value photo printing capability I'll not be 
going for the super swish 6 ink versions. Y M LM C LC B. I'm happy 
from reading advanced tests that the gains are minimal if they exist 
and the refilling issues sway me to a M C Y B scheme. Borderless 
printing, dual auto selected paper trays, inbuilt duplex and more, at 
an amazingly low price are enough.

Meanwhile, I still pledge my allegiance to the light side of the 
renamed HP force.  Even if their Luxeon LED mounting schemes are 
deficient :-).

If anyone wants to buy a bargain G85 printer / scanner / fax / copier 
with new black cartridge plus quite a few calidad colour refills, see 
me :-)



        RM




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