Good printer economical to run??

lilacclery

Ok my hp 3 in 1 no longer printing because new updates won't allow it to print with fake cartridges. So on the lookout for something new I'm part time self employed and for that would be printing maybe 40-60 pages weekly.

A shop in Tralee are running a deal on a brother printer with 12 refills in the year for€150 following year ink costs €79 for the year.

Kodak printers claim to be economical to run also

Any recommendations?

yoyo

Could you not uninstall the new driver and revert to the previous one? If you have the Driver disc that's what I'd do anyways.

Nick

lilacclery

yoyo wrote: »

Could you not uninstall the new driver and revert to the previous one? If you have the Driver disc that's what I'd do anyways.

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Will try that in the am as far as we can figure out its happened to any hp printer that is connected to a computer that is connected to Internet

P. Breathnach

lilacclery wrote: »

Will try that in the am as far as we can figure out its happened to any hp printer that is connected to a computer that is connected to Internet

You will need to disable automatic updating of printer drivers.

lilacclery

P. Breathnach wrote: »

lilacclery wrote: »

Will try that in the am as far as we can figure out its happened to any hp printer that is connected to a computer that is connected to Internet

You will need to disable automatic updating of printer drivers.

Well deleted old drivers, reinstalled & printer now working.

Can't find where to disable automatic updates though : (

P. Breathnach

lilacclery wrote: »

Well deleted old drivers, reinstalled & printer now working.

Can't find where to disable automatic updates though : (

Don't look at me! I'm no techie.

With my HP4380, I can open Photosmart Essentials, click on the Settings button, choose the General Overview, and I can see an option to enable or disable software updates.

lilacclery

well you solved my problem I had clicked on the printer icon in printers folder and search everywhere there!
Printer is now accepting the remanufactured cartridges, thanks for saving me the price of a new printer/genuine cartridges!!

P. Breathnach

I'm pleased for you that things are sorted.

I'm pleased for me, too. Some of the regulars here may notice that I turned up in this forum only recently, looking for help. I got wonderful advice, for which I am very grateful. It's nice for me to be able to contribute to the general good.

lilacclery

aargh printed 4 pages and back to the same error again!! Will untick that box straight away this time & hopefully be ok then!!

P. Breathnach

Is it possible that the driver updated itself before you disabled the option? You might have to uninstall/reinstall again - staying offline until you have updating disabled.

lilacclery

P. Breathnach wrote: »

Is it possible that the driver updated itself before you disabled the option? You might have to uninstall/reinstall again - staying offline until you have updating disabled.

That's what I think must have happened so installing it again now and have Internet switched off-posting this from my phone at the moment ! Fingers crossed.

By the way you looking for advice on here I thought that was part of boards function for being??

P. Breathnach

lilacclery wrote: »

That's what I think must have happened so installing it again now and have Internet switched off-posting this from my phone at the moment ! Fingers crossed.

It must be difficult to post from your phone while your fingers are crossed!

By the way you looking for advice on here I thought that was part of boards function for being??

True. But the world seems a fairer place if people give as well as receive.

Nothingbetter2d

you could also block port the hp updater uses on your router too :P

yoyo

You could add 127.0.0.1 hp.com to your hosts file (look here), this will block any internet access from the HP site, that is, assuming HP updater is pulling updates from hp.com.
The only downside to this is even trying to go onto hp.com via your web browser will be blocked. Alternatively setup your firewall to block all HP software access to the internet, this would likely be the best method

Nick