I just got a parallel port printer (HP Deskjet 500) working, and I don't feel like paying $40 for a new cartridge direct from HP...
So... for anyone who has tried this... what are the odds of me getting screwed over by buying an expired cartridge off Ebay? I've seen expiration dates of unopened cartridges from 1995 to 2004!
Also- using printers from DOS is before my time, so can anyone tell me whether it's normal for the printer to not Feed Out the page when I redirect output from DOS to PRN (example: 'dir > PRN' prints the directory listing, but doesn't send the page out until I manually force it or power off)?
It seems as if printers are one of the few computing peripherals that has stayed consistent or increased in quality- this Deskjet manages to irritate me as much as my network printer- and then some! Why couldn't they get inkjets right WITHOUT the paper jams and stalled/dropped jobs?
So... for anyone who has tried this... what are the odds of me getting screwed over by buying an expired cartridge off Ebay? I've seen expiration dates of unopened cartridges from 1995 to 2004!
Also- using printers from DOS is before my time, so can anyone tell me whether it's normal for the printer to not Feed Out the page when I redirect output from DOS to PRN (example: 'dir > PRN' prints the directory listing, but doesn't send the page out until I manually force it or power off)?
It seems as if printers are one of the few computing peripherals that has stayed consistent or increased in quality- this Deskjet manages to irritate me as much as my network printer- and then some! Why couldn't they get inkjets right WITHOUT the paper jams and stalled/dropped jobs?