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Time to switch to the backup one.
You do have a backup printer right?
Similar problems with my HP OfficeJet Pro 8610. It had problems with the magenta ink cartridge which caused black and white printing to become tricky and now all of the colours look blue-ish, even the individual colour checks). No amount of head cleaning routines fix it completely. I'll look to replace it with something similar in the next few weeks. Having a photocopier is a must in the house, fax machine less so. Still I only paid £25 for it brand new as it was £125 with £50 off at John Lewis and a further £50 rebate from HP after owning it for a month. I've used non-HP cartridges from the get-go so it isn't related to that. It's done 5+ years of service with no other problems. *checks* 6157 pages printed (3947 of them in colour). Total amount I've spent on it, including the printer itself makes it come out at ~2p/page.
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Fucking printers, how do they know when you need to print something urgently so they can pick that exact moment to throw a shit fit and stop working.
Have a courier booked to collect a parcel from 8am onwards tomorrow, I have 6 printable postage labels left, I know the correct orientation and the exact size/dimensions the printable area needs to be set to for a perfect fit.
First print... printer decides to notify me after printing that the yellow ink is out, everything completely faded.
replace yellow ink and run a cleaning program to clear out the print heads.
second print... completely faded, error message "ink absorber near full"
google message, printer basically is end of lifing itself.
third print... run another clean on the black ink only, print in B&W... completely faded
message now states ink absorber now full, refuses to operate and cannot clear error message, reboot printer.
printer bricks itself completely, no longer powers on at all.
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am a gnats hair from recreating that scene from office space.