Driver for HP printers for 3rd party ink

[Diggs]

HP is notorious for breaking printers that use third party ink and they say they reserve the right to do it again - (Another printer discussion goes here....)
https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/255957-hp-breaking-printers-killing-ink-cartridges?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+ziffdavis/extremetech+(Extremetech)&utm_content=FeedBurner+user+view

In turn they make a driver available that will accept third party ink cartridges (go figure....) and I like the OfficeJet series of printers -
https://support.hp.com/us-en/produc...ies/5367603/model/5367606/document/c05308850/

I'm trying to decide if I want to grab all 15 of them before they're deprecated.

 

[Your PCMD]

I generally use LD Products for all my ink and laser toner. I have ran into an issue only twice in the years I have used them. Both times, it was a simple call to them to get replacement cartridges that work with HP's new coding. They send out how ever many I have along with a RMA slip to send then ones that don't work back.

 

[Diggs]

+1 on LD Products. Been using them for many years.

 

[brandonkick]

I don't like or really use HP printers. It can largely be a matter of personal preference, but I've had bad luck with HP and it seems they not only suck ink fast but they are expensive and HP seems to be on point about making sure you either can't use or make it very hard to use non OEM ink. Well I'm sorry, but $50 + worth of ink at a pop is a little ridiculous.

I had quite a few brother printers, going back to my Brother MFC 240C and that thing was a BEAST. Gave pretty decent print quality, and I had a a refill kit that I bought on eBay for like 10$ that came with 4 big bottles of ink and other stuff with instructions. I had to have refilled those carts at least 10 times, never one problem and never saw any difference between that and OEM. Sadly it sat unused for a few years, and the print heads dried out on it. Oh well, I got my $60 worth (about ten times over).

I think it's kinda crappy on their part, to make ink so expensive when the printer itself isn't cheap. I know for SURE those ink carts don't cost anywhere close to $25 each to make.... probably closer to a dollar or two. The markup is crazy, if it weren't I'm sure a lot of people would just happily buy OEM.