27 Jan
2002
27 Jan
'02
4:04 a.m.
On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 01:17:55AM +0000, Tony Duell wrote:
No, in Germany - I just translated all the prices to US $ because I
guess that most folks on this list are from the US of A. I'm living
in Germany and located (and bought) all the HP ThinkJet stuff there.
That might also depend on the storage conditions. All the ink cartridges
for the ThinkJet that I have are - as far as I can tell without actually
putting them into the printer - in perfect condition. Just stored dry
and at room temperature.
It says "Owners Manual" on the front.
I found some
sources of the ink cartridges on the net, but most were
selling them at rather high prices (around $25) - but you might get
And presumably that's in the States, so I'd have shipping to pay on top
:-(. lucky on Ebay.
Just recently I managed to get a set of 8 ink cartridges
for $15 on ebay.de - together with the two I managed to get there
earlier I now have a reserve of 10 ink cartridges, which should last me
I've seen these cartridges fail in storage (even unopened) -- the
aluminium (?) front of the 'printhead' section corroded away (large hole,
relatively, in it). So it may not be a good idea to stock up too much. quite some
time. I even found the manual for the printer there for
$1 ;-)
User, or service manual? The first part of the former is all pictures with almost no text. It took me a _long_ time to
figure out what some of
It _does_ contain quite a lot of pictures, especially in the first half
of the manual. But the second half of it is a reference manual which
contains things like the escape sequences needed to control the printer
and basically everything I need should I feel the urge to write a custom
driver for it.
Regards,
Alex.
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