I have pretty much sworn off HP printers because they just up and quit printing for no reason or start acting flakey in other ways. My most recent one started falling apart after about 4 years of use, and then the feeder stopped taking paper in, so it still prints but you have to baby it.
So now my new office printer is an Epson ET5850, which I really liked, for the first two months. It's a fairly expensive machine but I figured, I've had it with cheap printers, I went with a higher-end one that's had glowing reviews. A couple weeks ago it started "sometimes" recognizing that I had put a form into the feeder, but not always. Now the last couple of days it has started doing a thing where if I ask it to print something, it spits out two perfect blank pages and then claims it is jammed (but it's not). I have to cancel the print job, and then print the job again, and it prints perfectly. Then if I want to print something else a minute later, it does the exact same drill again....two blank pages, "paper jam," cancel print, perfect print. It does this about three out of four print jobs now. Of course this problem does not appear in the troubleshooting section of the manual. I have rebooted the computer, rebooted the printer, I guess the next thing is to reinstall the software, but why can't these sons-a-bitches just work the way they are FREAKING SUPPOSED TO!?!?
So now my new office printer is an Epson ET5850, which I really liked, for the first two months. It's a fairly expensive machine but I figured, I've had it with cheap printers, I went with a higher-end one that's had glowing reviews. A couple weeks ago it started "sometimes" recognizing that I had put a form into the feeder, but not always. Now the last couple of days it has started doing a thing where if I ask it to print something, it spits out two perfect blank pages and then claims it is jammed (but it's not). I have to cancel the print job, and then print the job again, and it prints perfectly. Then if I want to print something else a minute later, it does the exact same drill again....two blank pages, "paper jam," cancel print, perfect print. It does this about three out of four print jobs now. Of course this problem does not appear in the troubleshooting section of the manual. I have rebooted the computer, rebooted the printer, I guess the next thing is to reinstall the software, but why can't these sons-a-bitches just work the way they are FREAKING SUPPOSED TO!?!?
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