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[dewline]

Definitely new printer tomorrow.

I've had enough of problems with this one after five years.

Where's a good place in Ottawa to offload a used OfficeJet 7612? Other than Staples?

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[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Depending on the issues it has, perhaps a lo-fi chapbook club, a hacker|makers' space, Girl Guides Council or something I cannot as having never been to Ottawa realize would be a likely adoptive home for wayward electronics.

I'm hoping no professors are still running dot matrix printers to be sure their off hours work belongs to their university.

[dewline]

This is a thing?

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Which?

Yes, I have (in the distant past) seen typescripts submitted that were shadows of letters because the author had a word processor but didn't own a printer worth the name/didn't know where to get ink.

There certainly is a lo-fi photography fandom, they used expired film, polaroids, one shot cameras and any other means to Punk against the perfect realism airbrushesque etc etc. I figure there may be such a (niche?) that would consider your bane a lovely way to comment on late stage kleptarcracy or whatever their agitbonmot is.
I'm not up on modern Girl Scouts & Guides and I don't know how your printer is vexing.

[thewayne]

Just please don't buy another HP. They're getting even nastier with their ink rental program. Word is that Brother is probably the friendliest ink printer going.

[dewline]

For me, I'm likely to go with Epson today. WF-7840. Brother is out of price range for now.

[thewayne]

Good luck with it!  I'm just glad you're not going with HP, their change in their terms - literally overnight with no notice - have lots of people fuming.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Any thoughts about re-inking an older HP or daisy chaining an inkjet to a semi-21st century computer?

[thewayne]

As far as re-inking is concerned, my main suggestion would be to search the internet.  There's plenty of DIY re-ink kits, but if the cartridges that you have on-hand are too old, they're probably too crusty to re-ink and should be replaced. Are you talking a printer that is the old parallel port and you want to connect it to a USB-based computer?  There are protocol converter boxes that can do that, but honestly, if it's that old I'd seriously consider replacing it.

[dewline]

The unofficial rule in our house is one printer per computer, and while we do have at least one printer old enough to have parallel ports, it isn't too old to have USB ports as well, so that's not a problem at this household.

[thewayne]

We have six computers and one laser, and it isn't set up for sharing.  HP bought Samsung's printer business, which sucks as Samsung was highly regarded.  I can't get a Mac driver disk worth anything.  I should try to configure the WiFi side of the printer with my Win 10 laptop, just haven't bothered.