Wonder if one could return the printer as no longer functional. Consumers have 6 year legal guarantee in UK (Scotland 5 years).

Imagine if your car no longer worked with supermarket fuel after a service.

They did this with the X476 / X576
A new firmware came along and stopped use of 3rd party cartridges. After a backlash they posted a firmware that disabled this, but it was buggy and still stopped the cartridges eventually.

I have the top of the range model of the previous generation of these (X576dw). It is the best printer I've owned, particularly as the model I have gets over 70ppm (!!). I have used third party cartridges no problem.

DRM for this type of hardware is crazy. I'll buy something else, and likely not HP.

Since we are talking about printer, I really need some advice pls guys.

I am looking a good reliable office laser printer (just black and white). Second hand is fine as along as it's running well. Where could I source for one apart from ebay?

£231 for a set of 4 http://www.cartridgesave.co.uk/HP913A-PACK.html still expensive. But a genuine set of Canon MB2050 cartridges are £43, on average you need 4 sets to print the same number of pages from the HP 913A cartridges.

This printer was on prime day warehouse came out at £76 however the cartridges are £100 each, the are ridiculously overpriced and you can't get compatible ones easily for it.

I though it was under EU law...still, that won't apply for long now anyway...

If you are looking for a 'cheap to run' inkjet, epson has launched thier EcoTank range, where in place of cartridges, there are ink tanks that you can refill from the bottles. Printer itself is more expensive, but cheaper in terms of ink.
Ive been using it only a few months.

After a printer that's little more expensive but cheaper to run take a look at http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/brother-mfc-j5335dw-one-wireless-printer-a3-duplex-was-rrp-199-now-129-99-argos-2746786 and it prints A3 too

Great deal - I purchased a couple of these. I have quite a competent printer already, but for the price and the cartridge capacity of 1500 pages - this works out marginally cheaper than buying new ink on my current printer.

I'll find some extra space for this in the study and use the 2 printers until they run out - then send them to a charity shop or something.

Sold cheap as you need to purchase genuine cartridges!
I believe it is one of the fastest inkjets due to the head design (the print head is the width of the page), that's about it's only good feature. Saying that if I didn't already have a plethora of colour printers I would consider purchasing this!

It is inkjet not laser.

This should be illegal

Wait... what?


£227 for a set of replacement "not inkjet, not laser" carts. No thanks!

:man:

If you think about how hot the £25 deals get, even though the starter cartridges contain almost no ink. This one includes 1500 page starter cartridges. It ought to be red hot, really.

I've ordered one, thanks. (Really ought to order another, just for the cartridge refills!)

Taken from the HP product website http://store.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=J6U57B&opt=A81&sel=PRN
"Dynamic security enabled printer. Only intended to be used with
cartridges using an HP original chip. Cartridges using a non-HP chip may
not work, and those that work today may not work in the future."

Still it's a cracking price :smile:

Can you also use this as a scanner?

sure. you can also use it as a coffee machine :smile: