To fucking hate printers? (A rant about HP Instant Ink)

[QuestionableMouse]

Trying to print a returns label with my shit goblin of a printer. It's black and white and the black cartridge is full. The colour one has an issue apparently and so I can't print anything.

I also can't get a replacement cartridge from Instant Ink until I resolve the problem yet I've ran through all of the steps at least three times without them fixing anything and the problem only started with the cartridge they sent me. I've given in and ordered a new colour cartridge because I'm so frustrated.

Why are printers so fucking frustrating?! It's one black and white page ffs!

We had a printer-scanner some years ago and it would stop functioning unless all the ink cartridges were branded and full. We couldn't scan anything or print black and white if for example yellow was out. Then we dared to use a universal ink and it just totally stopped working ever again.

I have to vent....

We had a fucking printer that just used to disappear off our network. Every time you wanted to use it, you had to reinstall the software.

Eventually we bought a new shit Epsom and that was shit too. So we bought the old one back into use. And... and.... and, the shit big printer appeared on the network as long as the shit cheap Epsom was on.😖. We binned the shit Epsom.

Changed from BT to Vodafone and printer is always on the network😲

Worst fucking household ornament ever. Takes up space, requires fucking dusting all the time on account of its “attract all of the shit” casing, ask it to do something and it just fucking whines and groans. I get more sodding productivity and less bloody noise from the fucking hideous shelf-dwelling, shell owl my husband’s grandparents bought from Torquay in 1960.

My printer is a bellend too, so I had to phone HP in the summer and had brilliant service from a man working from home in Miami. No problems at all since then. I think he put my printer into 'does as it's told' mode or something.

I haven't had a problem with my HP printer so far, but what boils my piss is the fact that the Instant Ink package won't go through my letterbox so if I'm out when it arrives (not an issue at present, admittedly, as I am working from home) I have to traipse up to the delivery office and queue to collect my oh-so-convenient delivered-to-your-door cartridges.

He he he.

Just found this on the thread someone linked to.

‘Printers are teenagers’

My teen ‘hates living in this house’ and ‘you’re so stressful’ every 5 minutes. Just awkward for the sake of if

I see the connection🙄

HP instant ink has gone gone downhill massively.
I am on the special scheme but the i k dries out as I don't use it much, and then I have to go through the rigmarole of getting a new one dispatched the replace the faulty one, but it takes weeks at a time.

They told me they use cheap parts now, which explains it. But it's put me right off buying another hp, or maybe it's just the instant ink scheme that's the problem.

[quote SisyphusDad]Obligatory link to the Cat vs Printer YouTube clip: [/quote]
SisyphusDad:

Cat vs Printer. That was my first thought as well.

Been a long time since I watched that but it always makes me smile. Thank you.

And let's not get into un-jamming a printer or error massages that say call service company....

Fuck printers. Whether they're the home kind or the big office ones, printers just hate me. I'm sure the tech support team at my old office used to groan when they saw me calling yet again about not being able to connect to the printers.

My worst printer disaster happened when I was very skint and couldn't afford the expensive cartridges. I bought one of those refill kits, put down newspaper and very carefully tried to follow the instructions. The bloody thing just... burst. I have no idea what I did wrong, but it quickly soaked through the layers of newspaper and onto the carpet. So, we ended up losing some of our deposit when we moved out for professional cleaning.

In the end, it was cheaper to buy a new printer in the sale than new cartridges.

What is even the point of them I think I need a new cartridge every time I go to print something out.

I fucking hate printers, I have a brand new one still in the box under my stairs which I'm loathed to take out as I know within minutes it will give the rage.

I've now lived without a printer for so long I don't actually think I need one....

@QuestionableMouse

Trying to print a returns label with my shit goblin of a printer. It's black and white and the black cartridge is full. The colour one has an issue apparently and so I can't print anything.

I also can't get a replacement cartridge from Instant Ink until I resolve the problem yet I've ran through all of the steps at least three times without them fixing anything and the problem only started with the cartridge they sent me. I've given in and ordered a new colour cartridge because I'm so frustrated.

Why are printers so fucking frustrating?! It's one black and white page ffs!

I had this.

Physically take out the colour cartridge and then it will print in B&W.

I dont get it. The one at work beeps when it needs paper, beeps when it runs out of ink, and otherwise behaves perfectly.
The home one is spawn of satan. Do I just need to spend a shittonne and get an office one? Why are home ones so temperamental?

As a student on one of my first summer jobs In witnessed a very senior manager throw a printer out a window five floors up from the yard it landed into. I was shocked, many years later I understand why. Printers hate me.

I managed to get through to HP instant ink support on the phone and they were really helpful. Sent me new cartridges no fuss (I had lost them).

Mines out of colour and won't print a b/w document grrr

@Ozgirl75

I love the idea of your printer sitting there in a scarf but refusing to work unless you warmed it properly

I dread to think how many work hours are lost where I work from people battling printers (a lot less now while most people are working from home I suppose)

Another one recommending an elderly HP laser jet. I used to work from home fairly regularly 15-20 years ago. These days it can get sulky if it has a day of printing 100+ pages but you can usually coax things through.

Our 5 year old colour printer/scanner has "issues", so DD usually uploads her school work and says the "cyan was out and my parents were busy".

Laser printer.
It's a game changer - I would not go back to ink jet if you paid me.

This happened to me. HP will send you a new cartridge to replace the faulty one at no extra cost. Try their web chat, I got it sorted straight away. I also believe printers are the devil. Good luck!

I had a tantrum with mine as it I'd pressed print 5 times, and nothing. I then realised it had linked to dds plugged in under her bed. She want impressed I'd done 5 full colour a4s on her ink 😫

You are absolutely not unreasonable. They are evil and we're put on this earth to force human beings into submission by an alien race just before they land here and exterminate us all.

A few years ago my daughter needed to print out 11 pages of a project for school. We started at 8pm. By 2am she was in bed and I was on my knees begging the bastard to print the final 2 pages.

My newly bought hp printer is fucked. Router is down and colour cartridge has given up. Can't fix either things.