[Malvern] HP Printer Cartridges

[Andrew Morris]

I've had one of those days ... I'm due to start a new job next week ... 
repairing PC's ... contract ... needed to print out a load of guff from 
the company ... and this is the day after I spent an entire day trying 
to install a new video card in my son's PC ... in the end I had to nick 
the one out of my main Linux PC for AGP compatibility ... now the one 
thing about Linux where M$ beats the crap out of it is running up an 
existing system with a new graphics card ... Linux has to reload ... I 
had to resort to a Knoppix Live CD ... and I can't get my wife's email 
out of the Linux machine because the directory is locked and Knoppix is 
unable to override the permissions ... so my temporary operational 
machine is now a laptop, which is Vista, due to be Linux after we have 
backed-up all my son's stuff ... and today it gets an HP update from 
November 2006 for the scanner/printer that came from work (as did my 
son's new PC ... 5 years old and due for a quick recycle at the end of 
my contract) ... and on the first page to print after the update ... 
both cartridges lock out to error codes ... printer now won't talk to 
the PC ... it's too much of a coincidence that this happens right after 
a driver update ... and to think of it, November 2006 is when the damn 
machine started playing up on XP and stopped scanning ... and both 
cartridges are remanufactured ... or am I just being paranoid?

Does anyone have a use for a pair of part-used Black HP 56 and almost 
full (bought last week) colour HP 57 cartridges ... because I 
sure-as-hell don't have a use for them now! Or the d**m printer.

I'm off the PC World for something that works with Linux and is 
"inexpensive".

Life? Don't talk to me about life!!


Cheers,

Andy (yes ... I've had the tears of frustration) Morris