HP OfficeJet 145 Black/color ink old. 8 days to expire. Printing will stop.

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Does anyone know if setting the printer date to the past will solve the
Two approaches will easily defeat almost any HP ink expiry date.
1) Cycle 3 HP c501x ink cartridges (even epired cartridges work well).
2) Remove the CMOS battery from the MPU board; short; reinstall.

The first method entails momentarily replacing the existing expiring
HP c5010 & c5011 officejet d145 ink cartridges with an existing ink
cartridge (this second HP ink cartridge can be expired or not); then
cycling the power on the Hewlett Packard Office Jet d145 all-in-one
printer. Repeat with a third HP c5011 & c5010 ink cartridge (expired
or not). Replace the original after the obligatory cycling of the
power on the HP OfficeJet d145 all-in-one printer.

That stuff about print heads being destroyed by running out of ink is
pure unadulterated HP FUD (hey, he filled the ink - it never ran the
ink dry so dry print heads is not of concern in this excellent ng
thread).

The second method entals repairing the HP Office Jet d145 printer by
removing the restriction on date altogether. Simply disconnect the MPU
board CMOS battery (just remove it from the clips momentarily); short
the terminals of the MPU board battery connector (with the 120v power
off, of course); then re-connect.

The HP OfficeJet d145 boot-up sequence (which normally occurs only at
the factory) will go through a series of questions such as:
- What is the current date & time?
(change it by a year or two but not three!)
- How many sheets of paper for the B&W ink low-ink message?
- How many sheets of paper for the color ink low-ink message?

This proves HP is counting paper sheets - not ink drops or ink
levels!.

These methods have worked for thousands of successful HP printer
homeowners to eliminate the Hewlett Packard illegal restriction on
refilling HP printer ink cartridges. They will work for you too!

TT
 
The HP OfficeJet d145 boot-up sequence (which normally occurs only at
the factory) will go through a series of questions such as:
- What is the current date & time?
(change it by a year or two but not three!)
- How many sheets of paper for the B&W ink low-ink message?
- How many sheets of paper for the color ink low-ink message?

This proves HP is counting paper sheets - not ink drops or ink
levels!.
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It does not prove any such thing. The printer does count drops, which may
correspond to a certain number of "standard" pages for calibration purposes.
Real printing varies widely on the amount of ink per page and counting pages
for a low on ink indicator would be a very unsuitable approach. For example, a
photo will use perhaps 10x the ink per page as a web page with small bit of
color.

It is much easier to type "800 pages" than "1039680000 drops" but the printer
counts the drops to estimate the level of ink left.

- Bob Headrick, not speaking for my employer HP
 
It is much easier to type "800 pages" than "1039680000 drops" but the
printer
counts the drops to estimate the level of ink left.
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My question is a little different... Why does my printer - which has both
black and multiple color resivoirs - use color ink up from time to time when
I only print B&W?
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Joe - V#8013 - '86 VN750 - joe @ yunx .com
Northern, NJ
Ask me about "The Ride" on July 31, '04:
http://www.youthelate.com/the_ride.htm

Born once - Die twice. Born twice - Die only once. Your choice...
 
the expiration is enforced to protect the
printhead.
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bull


--
-john
wide-open at throttle dot info

~~~~~~~~
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining
- JFK
~~~~~~~~
 
If you do not print much
you should probably get a different printer. The PSC 2210 or 2410 or Officejet
6110 may be a better fit for your needs.

Regards,
Bob Headrick, not speaking for my employer HP
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HP sucks, and they lie to their employees and their customers.
My scanner (Photosmart S20) supposedly supports Windows 2000, but it broke
when I udated with SP4. HP tech support ws clueless about this - at first I
thought the hardware was going south - turns out it is the crappy drvers. It
works fine in Windows98 SE.
What irks me is: they flat out lied about OS support.

Oh yeah, I still have an old deskjet too, and the NT drivers are crap. I
have to buy and install third party software, like fine-print, in oorder to
realize the same functionality that WAS there with Win95/98, under NT4/2k/XP


Screw them. Screw them and their lies, and their inconsistent, buggy
engineering. I'll buy Epson from now on.
I have less sympathy for their employees than I do for burger-flippers.

They DID make good some calculators, back in the '70s - I'll give them credit
for that.

For more on the subject, see:
http://tinyurl.com/5vmcq



--
-john
wide-open at throttle dot info

~~~~~~~~
Power is, power does, and power slips away.
It's so easy to abuse. - Kris Kristofferson
~~~~~~~~
 
Two approaches will easily defeat almost any HP ink expiry date.
1) Cycle 3 HP c501x ink cartridges (even epired cartridges work well).
2) Remove the CMOS battery from the MPU board; short; reinstall.
Click to expand...

3) Reverse-engineer, patch, and recompile the driver. ;->

The first method entails momentarily replacing the existing expiring
HP c5010 & c5011 officejet d145 ink cartridges with an existing ink
cartridge (this second HP ink cartridge can be expired or not); then
cycling the power on the Hewlett Packard Office Jet d145 all-in-one
printer. Repeat with a third HP c5011 & c5010 ink cartridge (expired
or not). Replace the original after the obligatory cycling of the
power on the HP OfficeJet d145 all-in-one printer.
Click to expand...

Too much monkey business. Patching DLLs is more fun, anyway. ;-)
That stuff about print heads being destroyed by running out of ink is
pure unadulterated HP FUD (hey, he filled the ink - it never ran the
ink dry so dry print heads is not of concern in this excellent ng
thread).
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I concur.
It is a marketing ploy.
I guess the "logic" is : user can afford high end printer = user can afford
to waste ink at his/her own expense. Manufacturer is happy to sell more ink.

I've been refilling _deskjet_ cartridges for years, and they have integral
print heads!

The second method entals repairing the HP Office Jet d145 printer by
removing the restriction on date altogether. Simply disconnect the MPU
board CMOS battery (just remove it from the clips momentarily); short
the terminals of the MPU board battery connector (with the 120v power
off, of course); then re-connect.

The HP OfficeJet d145 boot-up sequence (which normally occurs only at
the factory) will go through a series of questions such as:
- What is the current date & time?
(change it by a year or two but not three!)
- How many sheets of paper for the B&W ink low-ink message?
- How many sheets of paper for the color ink low-ink message?
Click to expand...

Chop! I love it!
Beats hacking code, too!

This proves HP is counting paper sheets - not ink drops or ink
levels!.

These methods have worked for thousands of successful HP printer
homeowners to eliminate the Hewlett Packard illegal restriction on
refilling HP printer ink cartridges. They will work for you too!
Click to expand...


Recorded and noted.
This article will be saved to text file
(and printed on my my 7-year-old Deskjet). <g>



--
-john
wide-open at throttle dot info

~~~~~~~~
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining
- JFK
~~~~~~~~
 
It's an 882C. When printing a photo it chugs along properly for 3" and
then prints a 3/4" band of photograph with a distinct purple cast. Then
it goes along properly for another few inches (these distances are
pretty much random) and then prints another 3/4" band. Sometimes it
will print a whole photo properly, sometimes with one band, sometimes
with two or three. Occasionally it will print an entire page with one
of the rows of dots lagging behind, which really looks cheesy. This may
have stopped when the cartridges were replaced last time, but perhaps
not.

A third failure mode: consider a photo of a flat wall lit from one
end. The wall will shade evenly from light to dark across the picture,
right? That's what happens most of the time. Every once in a while,
such a picture will exhibit stair-stepped blocks of color, as if the
resolution were suddenly cut to 1/4 or 1/8 the proper value. Especially
annoying when it's a person's face instead of a smooth wall or the sky.
A second attempt at printing the same picture may or may not print
properly. Likewise with the purple banding. All intermittent.
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Reinstall the driver.


--
-john
wide-open at throttle dot info

~~~~~~~~
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining
- JFK
~~~~~~~~
 
Couldn't agree more. After fighting my 3rd POS inkjet printer buying
ridiculously priced cartriges and learning the messy art of filling
them,
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Toner is just as bad as ink, if spilled down the front of you. :-)
I gave up on color to get a cheap laser printer. Now I get page
after page after page of cheap troublefree pages.
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How can I print my color photos on a monochrome printer?


--
-john
wide-open at throttle dot info

~~~~~~~~
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining
- JFK
~~~~~~~~
 
~^Johnny^~ said:
Toner is just as bad as ink, if spilled down the front of you. :-)
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It washes off easily.
How can I print my color photos on a monochrome printer?
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With great difficulty. Fortunately, crayons are pretty cheap.

--
Cheers, Bev
###################################################################
"Johnston [Island] was the home of a U.S. chemical weapons disposal
facility for 10 years before operations ended in November 2000.
The island was turned into a wildlife preserve."
© 2002 The Associated Press
 
~^Johnny^~ said:
Reinstall the driver.
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I had wondered about that. Do you have a specific reason for saying
that, or is it just the "Reformat your hard drive and reinstall all your
software" standard prescription for windows problems?

--
Cheers, Bev
###################################################################
"Johnston [Island] was the home of a U.S. chemical weapons disposal
facility for 10 years before operations ended in November 2000.
The island was turned into a wildlife preserve."
© 2002 The Associated Press
 
~^Johnny^~ said:
Toner is just as bad as ink, if spilled down the front of you. :-)
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I understand that it is worse, if you try cleaning up using a
vacuum cleaner.

[snip]

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Computerese Irregular Verb Conjugation:
I have preferences.
You have biases.
He/She has prejudices.
 
~^Johnny^~ said:
Toner is just as bad as ink, if spilled down the front of you. :-)




How can I print my color photos on a monochrome printer?
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sure, if you like B&W.

making a slideshow CD that can be viewed on most DVD players is easier.

another option, if you *need* hard copies of prints (xmas cards, etc) is
costco...

4x6 @ .18/ea (youd need to print 1000 to break even on a $180 printer,
and *still* have to factor in the ink and paper costs for 1000 prints)

5x7 @ .69/ea

8x10/8x12 @ 1.99/ea

11x14/12x18 @ 2.99/ea (try printing something this big on a regular
photo printer!)

all done in their 1 hr photo labs.
 
Toner is just as bad as ink, if spilled down the front of you. :-)


How can I print my color photos on a monochrome printer?
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Take more shots of penguins - or polar bears.
 
I had wondered about that. Do you have a specific reason for saying
that, or is it just the "Reformat your hard drive and reinstall all your
software" standard prescription for windows problems?
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No, I'm serious.

Both my old Radio Shack DMP-310 dot matrix printer, and my current printer,
started printing funny ... skewed lines and such .. weird aberrations in the
output .. and I had to reinstall the drivers. Device drivers, in the
software realm, can take on a mind of their own. Please trust me in this!

Reinstalling a printer driver is HARDLY as drastic as reformatting, or even
rebuilding the HAL (which I have had to do, in Windows 2000).

Just reinstall the printer driver. It's not drastic, and it's admittedly a
shotgun approach, but it's NOT DRASTIC enough to worry about.

Reinstall the driver. It's not a big deal.




--
-john
wide-open at throttle dot info

~~~~~~~~
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining
- JFK
~~~~~~~~
 
It washes off easily.


With great difficulty. Fortunately, crayons are pretty cheap.
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LOL!

{{{{{{{{ Bev }}}}}}}}}


--
-john
wide-open at throttle dot info

~~~~~~~~
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining
- JFK
~~~~~~~~
 
Take more shots of penguins - or polar bears.
Click to expand...


Very good!

I like penguins.
At least, the Linux bird...
--
-john
wide-open at throttle dot info

~~~~~~~~
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining
- JFK
~~~~~~~~
 
another option, if you *need* hard copies of prints (xmas cards, etc) is
costco...

4x6 @ .18/ea (youd need to print 1000 to break even on a $180 printer,
and *still* have to factor in the ink and paper costs for 1000 prints)

5x7 @ .69/ea

8x10/8x12 @ 1.99/ea

11x14/12x18 @ 2.99/ea (try printing something this big on a regular
photo printer!)

all done in their 1 hr photo labs.
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Can I take my =digital= images into Costco®?

The ones I have so laboriosly processed in Photoshop?

Check!
Your move...




--
-john
wide-open at throttle dot info

~~~~~~~~
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining
- JFK
~~~~~~~~
 
~^Johnny^~ said:
Can I take my =digital= images into Costco®?

The ones I have so laboriosly processed in Photoshop?

Check!
Your move...
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in .jpg format, and either on a card, or cd? sure! give it a shot- you
might be really surprised. id be interested in seeing how they turn out
as well. and the higher the resolution, the better the picture.
 
~^Johnny^~ said:
No, I'm serious.

Both my old Radio Shack DMP-310 dot matrix printer, and my current printer,
started printing funny ... skewed lines and such .. weird aberrations in the
output .. and I had to reinstall the drivers. Device drivers, in the
software realm, can take on a mind of their own. Please trust me in this!

Reinstalling a printer driver is HARDLY as drastic as reformatting, or even
rebuilding the HAL (which I have had to do, in Windows 2000).

Just reinstall the printer driver. It's not drastic, and it's admittedly a
shotgun approach, but it's NOT DRASTIC enough to worry about.

Reinstall the driver. It's not a big deal.
Click to expand...

All I have to do is find the CD that came with the printer. I'll give
it a shot, though. It certainly sounds reasonable.

--
Cheers,
Bev
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"The way England treats her prisoners, she doesn't
deserve to have any." --Oscar Wilde
 
Can I take my =digital= images into Costco®?

The ones I have so laboriosly processed in Photoshop?

Check!
Your move...
Click to expand...


Sure you can. Costco has a CD drive for just that purpose.

Next time play a game you know something about.
 
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