I had a similar problem with MS turning off my Word and Office functions by remote after I had purchased a full licence & demanding blackmail, er.. more money to turn the software back on. What it came down to for me was this: If I write something in MS Word who owns the intellectual property rights? I think MS does. So, I switched to Libre Office.
Blessings, Paul W On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > On Sat, 24 Sep 2016, King Beowulf wrote: > > >> HP just made it impossible to use third-party ink in its printers > > --snip--- > > > Also, over the decades, I've had mixed experiences with 3rd-party ink. > > For lasers, in an FDA CGMP regulated pharmaceutical lab, HP cartridges > > on good archival paper were always superior. The front office used > > cheaper generics where the fused ink tended to flake off the page. For > > inkjets, generic cartridges tended to clog more often and the ink tended > > to bleed on the page. > > FWIW, I buy refilled HP laser cartridges for both the LJ-5 monochome > and 2550L > color at Cartridge World and they've all worked great for me. My inkjet > experience (with an large format HP deskjet) was not happy because I used > it > infrequently and the print heads would clog. Heads and color cartridges > were > separate and cost $75 each; that's an expensive replacement cost. > > Ed's correct that many of us print infrequently. I'll stick with my old > HP > laser printers as long as I can. > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug