buckeyefarmer
Epic Contributor
I have a friend we call hutch, so there’s another type. His last name is Hutchinson, I forget his real first name.
60 degrees going for a sunny 76 today; doesn't hardly seem like Winter, but I still like it. But what I DON'T like is problems with a computer printer. It's an HP Envy 5660 only 4 years old this month and I guess for nearly a year I've been getting emails from HP telling me that there is no service for this obsolete model and I should buy a new printer.But I figured as long as it's working, why change. It uses a tri-color HP 62 print cartridge and a black HP 62 cartridge. I've always kept spares on hand to change as needed. Well, I bought two new cartridges yesterday to have when needed, AND I installed the two that I've had on hand since March. No matter what I did, it just kept refusing to work and saying a cartridge was improperly installed. So I finally figured out that it was the black ink cartridge, so I opened the packaging on the new one; same result. Now it's simple to replace the ink in this thing and I don't see how you could make a mistake, so I began to think maybe this printer was dying. But I tried putting the old cartridges back in and it worked just fine. The old and the new tri-color works right, and the old black works,, but I've got 2 new black cartridges that DO NOT work. I've never had such a thing happen in the past. These are both genuine "Original HP Ink" cartridges from Walmart. One shows to have been made in Malaysia in MAR 2022 and the other in Malaysia in AUG 2022.