HP DJ 1000 problems

I just returned my HP DJ 1000 and received a replacement. It seemed to work
ok. Then wanted a new mono cartridge. Snce then it is printing improperly -
skips lines, prints only portions of lines - skips ends of lines, complete
lines and prints only top half of some lines. Acts like it is getting bad
info but a Canon printer works fine with same software and documents.

I'm stumped. Any suggestions? I replaced the cart with the correct HP brand
cart. Not sure it's the cart - just guessing.

TIA for any ideas.


--
"Where there's smoke there's toast!" Anon

From: "KenK"

I just returned my HP DJ 1000 and received a replacement. It seemed to
work
ok. Then wanted a new mono cartridge. Snce then it is printing
improperly -
skips lines, prints only portions of lines - skips ends of lines, complete
lines and prints only top half of some lines. Acts like it is getting bad
info but a Canon printer works fine with same software and documents.

I'm stumped. Any suggestions? I replaced the cart with the correct HP
brand
cart. Not sure it's the cart - just guessing.

TIA for any ideas.


DJ - DeskJet or DesignJet ?

Does the printer have separate Print Heads to the ink carts. ?


--
Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

"David H. Lipman" wrote in
:

From: "KenK"

I just returned my HP DJ 1000 and received a replacement. It seemed
to work
ok. Then wanted a new mono cartridge. Snce then it is printing
improperly -
skips lines, prints only portions of lines - skips ends of lines,
complete lines and prints only top half of some lines. Acts like it
is getting bad info but a Canon printer works fine with same software
and documents.

I'm stumped. Any suggestions? I replaced the cart with the correct HP
brand
cart. Not sure it's the cart - just guessing.

TIA for any ideas.


DJ - DeskJet or DesignJet ?

Deskjet

Does the printer have separate Print Heads to the ink carts. ?


I dnn't know. It has separate plug-in carts - 61 black - color and black.

I'm wondering if my driver might need reinstalling.

TIA



--
"Where there's smoke there's toast!" Anon

KenK wrote in
:

I just returned my HP DJ 1000 and received a replacement. It seemed to
work ok. Then wanted a new mono cartridge. Snce then it is printing
improperly - skips lines, prints only portions of lines - skips ends
of lines, complete lines and prints only top half of some lines. Acts
like it is getting bad info but a Canon printer works fine with same
software and documents.

I'm stumped. Any suggestions? I replaced the cart with the correct HP
brand cart. Not sure it's the cart - just guessing.

TIA for any ideas.



Here's a better version of the above.

I returned my new HP DJ 1000 recently ($10 shipping!) and received a
replacement. It seemed to work ok on a couple of test prints. Then wanted
a new mono cartridge. Snce then it is printing improperly - skips lines,
prints only portions of lines - skips ends of lines (acts like it doesn't
see the CR and drops the remainder of the line), skips complete
lines, and sometimes prints only top half of line characters. Not what
appears on the monitor. Acts like it is getting bad info but a Canon
printer works OK with same software and documents.

I'm stumped. Any suggestions? I replaced the cart with the correct HP
brand cart. Not sure it's the cart - just guessing. Probably co-
incidence. BTW, the new cart was removed from the original printer
(installed when its original cart ran out of ink) before it was returned
where it had only printed a couple of documents. Who knows? I'm not about
to buy another cart.

Bad driver? Tried the drivers for the original printer install and also
the replacement printer install so I doubt it.

TIA for any ideas.

In case you hadn't guessed this is the last thing I'll ever buy from HP!
What a shame - they used to be a good reliable company.



--
"Where there's smoke there's toast!" Anon

From: "KenK"



DJ - DeskJet or DesignJet ?

Deskjet

Does the printer have separate Print Heads to the ink carts. ?

I dnn't know. It has separate plug-in carts - 61 black - color and black.

I'm wondering if my driver might need reinstalling.

TIA


It's a cheap printer. On HP its sells fo $30.00

It uses 1 x Black and 1 x Tri-Colour

One ink cart. is as much as the printer.

I would call this a throw-away printer if you are using new ink carts.

If the ink carts are new, eRecycle the printer and invest in a better one.



--
Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

From: "KenK"

KenK wrote in
:

I just returned my HP DJ 1000 and received a replacement. It seemed to
work ok. Then wanted a new mono cartridge. Snce then it is printing
improperly - skips lines, prints only portions of lines - skips ends
of lines, complete lines and prints only top half of some lines. Acts
like it is getting bad info but a Canon printer works fine with same
software and documents.

I'm stumped. Any suggestions? I replaced the cart with the correct HP
brand cart. Not sure it's the cart - just guessing.

TIA for any ideas.

Here's a better version of the above.

I returned my new HP DJ 1000 recently ($10 shipping!) and received a

snip

It is not a "better" version because the acronym "DJ" can mean DeskJet or
DesignJet and there is a BIG difference between the two families.

The DeskJet 1000 is a throw-away printer where the cost of the print is the
same as one ink cart.


--
Dave
Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk
http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

"David H. Lipman" wrote in
:

From: "KenK"



DJ - DeskJet or DesignJet ?

Deskjet

Does the printer have separate Print Heads to the ink carts. ?

I dnn't know. It has separate plug-in carts - 61 black - color and
black.

I'm wondering if my driver might need reinstalling.

TIA


It's a cheap printer. On HP its sells fo $30.00

It uses 1 x Black and 1 x Tri-Colour

One ink cart. is as much as the printer.

I would call this a throw-away printer if you are using new ink carts.

If the ink carts are new, eRecycle the printer and invest in a better
one.




Unfortunately, to me $30 is a fair amount of money. I had hoped it would
work for a couple of years - previous HP Deskjets did. And I'm hoping it
is fixable - seems like I might be doing something stupid to cause the
pronlem. Also, whatever I buy may be as bad - I recently bought a Canon
Pixma MG3122 for ~$50 and it's a piece of crap too. sigh





--
"Where there's smoke there's toast!" Anon

KenK writes:
"David H. Lipman" wrote in
:
From: "KenK"
/../ I recently bought a Canon Pixma MG3122 for ~$50 and it's a
piece of crap too. sigh

Hi, can you be specific about the problems with the Canon printer? I'm
interested because I develop drivers for Canon under linux, and while
these low-end MG series devices (using just 2 cartridges) are indeed
cheap, they have a nice feature in that one can print in black-only,
by choosing to use only the black cartridge (and removing the other
one if needed, since printing photos will ignore the cartridge
selection again---black-only works only for certain media: plain
media, non-photo postcard media, and envelopes).

If there is something you do not like about them, could you post it
here? I haven't got one of these latest devices myself, but it could
well be that your needs are not best met by this type, and I might be
able to recommend something instead.
--
Gernot Hassenpflug

Gernot Hassenpflug wrote in
:

KenK writes:
"David H. Lipman" wrote in
:
From: "KenK"
/../ I recently bought a Canon Pixma MG3122 for ~$50 and it's a
piece of crap too. sigh

Hi, can you be specific about the problems with the Canon printer?

Perhaps I'm being too critical but I'm just full up to here with printer
problems. Before now I've never had any, and that's been some 40 years -
since the MITS Altair and Radio Shack TRS-80!.

I'm
interested because I develop drivers for Canon under linux, and while
these low-end MG series devices (using just 2 cartridges) are indeed
cheap, they have a nice feature in that one can print in black-only,
by choosing to use only the black cartridge (and removing the other
one if needed, since printing photos will ignore the cartridge
selection again---black-only works only for certain media: plain
media, non-photo postcard media, and envelopes).

Wasn't aware of that. Does this work under Win XP Home too?

If there is something you do not like about them, could you post it
here? I haven't got one of these latest devices myself, but it could
well be that your needs are not best met by this type, and I might be
able to recommend something instead.

First problem was it would only feed paper if there were only a few sheets
- 5 or 10 or so - in the blank paper tray. Just yesterday I discovered and
tried the 'clean rollers' in the Maintenance menu. Today I can print with a
stack of paper in the tray. Hope it works through the whole stack and
continues in the future.

Second problem is that it sometimes doesn't print when I send it something.
Seems to be mostly a problem with my ancient Xnews newsreader which doesn't
use the usual dialog box to print - just does it. The Canon is selected in
Control Panel as default printer. Haven't quite sorted out everything -
seems to be a problem when used first after switching printers but not
sure. The problem is erratic and I need to have much more experience with
it. This morning tried printing from Xnews first thing with no problems!
shrug I've not used the Canon that much.

All in all, not that bad, but annoying after decades of no printer
problems.

Thanks very much for you kind offer of help.




--
"Where there's smoke there's toast!" Anon

Then wanted a new mono cartridge. Snce then it is printing improperly -
skips lines, prints only portions of lines - skips ends of lines, complete
lines and prints only top half of some lines. Acts like it is getting bad
info but a Canon printer works fine with same software and documents.

Most possible a glogged cartridge. Upload somewhere a scan of the printed
page (at least 150 dpi) and I will tell you for sure.