The HP G85 printer, which caused me to start this thread a few weeks 
ago just snuck through my screens and gobbled up another colour 
cartridge. The HP el-cheapo someone-has-refilled-my-cartridge detector 
strikes again. The Force is strong with this one. Cloaking seems to 
still be effective on the black cartridge which started all this but I 
know what the printer is thinking. I happened to have a spare colour 
cartridge evenings's colour printing won't be excessively damaged.

So: That's it. Enough. Gone next week. To be replaced probably by a 
Canon, but I'll have another good look at latest offerings from 
others.

That's the last HP printer I expect to buy in this lifetime, and there 
will be a few other people who I persuade not to buy them as well long 
the way. Unless Agilent stage a successful takeover bid for HP and 
bring them back to the Light side.

Other HP products I'll take on a case by case basis. But the power of 
the dark side is pervasive and tends to permeate their other products, 
if only by association. At least there's still Agilent to carry the 
original flag.

HP MAY just live on as a fax machine and occasional black only 
printer - at least until I use up the cheap black ink I have or until 
it works out how to kill the black cartridge. And it's OK as a 
scanner.


            RM 

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