I'm a college student that has an HP C5180 mainly to print papers. I've extremely rarely used the color ink in the printer. Somehow, the blue ink has run out. Fine, it still let me print in black and white. A little while ago, however, it suddenly won't let me use ANYTHING ON THE PRINTER until I replace the blue ink. What gives?
It literally will not let me scan a document, because I don't have blue ink. I can't print black-and-white, because I don't have blue ink.
I don't want to buy blue ink just to print in black and white. Also, how did the blue ink die when I had never used it?
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My only comment is that you understand nothing about the wondrous rip off of ink jet printers.
What the hell is wrong with you, as you ask what is best for me, when you should be asking what you can do to pad the profits of HP. You were fool enough to buy a HP inkjet,
why should you not have the courage of your brand loyalty conviction's?
To start out with, every time you reboot your computer and inkjet printer, regardless if you subsequently opt to print or not, a small cleaning operation is preformed that runs a small amount of ink of all colors through the print head. That in all likely hood is where your blue ink is going and soon, the same will happen to all your other colors even if you only print in text black.
To some extent you can minimize that every boot ink waste by unplugging your HP inkjet printer from wall power until you need printing, but still, the only good thing that can be said about HP inkjets is they may be marginally smaller rips offs than lexmarks.
I may be somewhat irresponsible in saying the best solution for you is to get a B/W laser printer, but for $50.00 or so such Laser printer would save you a small fortune and you would be well advised to turn your HP printer into a flower pot or just throw it away, But you could be so heartless as to throw that HP working inkjet printer away? Its like your family pet, how could you let it starve to death? You so owe it. This message brought to you by HP. Personally I am racked by guilt as I have let a few inkjet printers die a death of slow tortured starvation, and will certainly burn in hell when I die. Every night, I hear their cries, how could you do this to me? But on the upside, my wallet is far fatter.
But as someone who has a laser and inkjet, it is indeed possible to beat a laser with an inkjet on economy, but one can only do so with some Canon and Epson inkjets, and it gasp takes some knowledge few will bother to learn.
Bottom line, just buy a B/W laser and you will be many dollars ahead at the speed of light.
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