My inkjet is elite. It will do a perfect nozzle check several days in a row, then when I actually need to print something the next day, the black is clogged.
Mine will wake up everyone in the postcode with it’s clonk-a-donk thwap brrrrrrrrzrzrzrzrzrzrzcrack fwip-rrrrrrr-fwip at any time of night but not even try to get an address from DHCP.
Once I accidentally found that printing in photo mode doesn’t use black ink. So I can get a dark enough colour for documents by telling the printer it’s using photo paper. (Except one time when I printed on matte sticker paper ond it decided not to print any of the black.)
I thought it was because the black had pigment ink, but even after a thorough manual flush before switching to dye ink, I still get clogged nozzles. I never had this much blockage on the old family Epson, so who knows, maybe this one just hates me.
The only reason I haven’t switched to laser is because they just don’t compare to the res of inkjets and I mostly use my printer for miniatures and other art projects.
I just couldn’t get this level of detail on a laser :(
Such a plight. I sadly still have to do this on occasion for family. But I usually get a free dinner out of it.
9/10 it has been the printer got a new IP from DHCP and the idiotic phones/laptops still used the previous one. I’m hoping a DHCP reservation will keep me a bit more sane.
Its a WiFi inkjet printer you say? You haven’t used it in six months you say?
Please Shoot!
My inkjet is elite. It will do a perfect nozzle check several days in a row, then when I actually need to print something the next day, the black is clogged.
Mine would always refuse to print this black and white texture again because it was out of magenta.
Mine will wake up everyone in the postcode with it’s clonk-a-donk thwap brrrrrrrrzrzrzrzrzrzrzcrack fwip-rrrrrrr-fwip at any time of night but not even try to get an address from DHCP.
That’s why you just reset the chip manually.
Once I accidentally found that printing in photo mode doesn’t use black ink. So I can get a dark enough colour for documents by telling the printer it’s using photo paper. (Except one time when I printed on matte sticker paper ond it decided not to print any of the black.)
I thought it was because the black had pigment ink, but even after a thorough manual flush before switching to dye ink, I still get clogged nozzles. I never had this much blockage on the old family Epson, so who knows, maybe this one just hates me.
The only reason I haven’t switched to laser is because they just don’t compare to the res of inkjets and I mostly use my printer for miniatures and other art projects.
I just couldn’t get this level of detail on a laser :(
Such a plight. I sadly still have to do this on occasion for family. But I usually get a free dinner out of it.
9/10 it has been the printer got a new IP from DHCP and the idiotic phones/laptops still used the previous one. I’m hoping a DHCP reservation will keep me a bit more sane.
But don’t get me started on ws-print bullshit.
Got tired of that stuff when my wife was working from home. Brief power outage and everything got new IP addresses.
Ended up putting the IP info on the printer manually to an address outside DHCP scope