Russell McMahon wrote:
> 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.
> 
<snip>
> 
> 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 
> :-)
> 
As several others have mentioned, Canon. Our HP died recently and we
replaced it with a Canon ip5000. Given all the bad press, here and on
other groups, I was a bit suprised to see Consumer Reports rating the
HP printers so high in their latest review.

Jim

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