Tip #3823 - Ink Warning!
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Ink
Warning!
If you own an HP DeskJet
3900 printer or if you're considering buying an HP 3900 printer, I would
like to share a problem with you that I experienced with remanufactured
ink for these particular printers. (If you are not familiar with remanufactured
ink cartridges, they are cartridges from which the ink has already been
used up and then the manufacturers go in and refill the ink again, in
the same cartridge. You can look at it as an old cartridge with new ink
in it).
Here it goes. My printer
was printing fine until I put a remanufactured ink cartridge in it! The
HP DeskJet 3900 printer is not compatible with remanufactured ink cartridges.
There are ink companies that are selling remanufactured ink for these
printers, but the cartridges are knocking the printers out of bound. This
ink is supposed to be tested and safe to use in your printer, but that’s
certainly not the case in this situation.
Now, my printer will
not print any of my documents. The documents will come out either blank
or everything will be scattered all over the place. It causes the paper
to jam and rip as well. It also resets your printer. This picture below
shows what it continues to reset my printer to and it’s still doing
it! It resets it to an AGFA – Acco/Setcc v52.3 setting, which is
just wrong.
Here is a picture of what I have to reset my printer to every time I need
to print. I have to manually set my printer back to an HP DeskJet 3900
Series every time! If I forget to do that, it will not print correctly
and I then have to turn the printer completely off and try it all over
again.
Now, this is only
one type of remanufactured ink cartridge that’s out there. The cartridge
will usually have the company's initials on it as well.
This is what I usually
get (the OEM Hewlett Packard (HP 22) Tri-Color Ink Cartridge), which comes
directly from the HP company itself. This ink works fine in my printer.
Even though the remanufactured
ink is a little cheaper than the brand name ink, it’s not compatible
with the HP DeskJet 3900 printer. So, remember, don't get the one on the
left, but get the one on the right.
I'm not sure
how other remanufactured inks are working with other printers, but I know
this type of remanufactured ink isn’t working with the HP DeskJet
3900 Series printers. I know not all of you use this type of printer,
but I wanted to give a word of warning for those of you who do.
All in all, just make
sure you pick the best ink for the HP DeskJet 3900 printer, which I have
found to be the OEM Hewlett Packard (HP 22) Tri-Color version. I know
sometimes we try to save money, but in reality, the cheaper item is not
always the best item. Therefore, just get the best ink for your printer
and you will save yourself from a lot of headaches!
~ Tweety Dimes
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