On 7 Jul 2004 02:27:15 -0700, (Orak
Listalavostok) wrote:

My HP OfficeJet d145 all-in-one printer suddenly reports:
Black ink old. Color ink old.
8 days to expire. 8 days to expire.
Printing will stop. Printing will stop.
Press enter to continue. Press enter to continue.

{Cross posting deleted}

I don't know the cure, but it frightens me a wee bit....

Ink jet cartridges do have an expiry date. just look at the box it
comes in.

OK, so they get refilled time and again.

The above 'Warning' message *may* indicate a very crafty move by the
manufacturers. Could cartridges themselves be coded with the 'use by
date' AND could the printer be reading the 'use by date'?

Is this the manufacturers fighting against refiling their
cartridges... Hammed!!!!

The ink isn't old. I replaced it just last week. Actually, since a
5-year supply of ink (for me) costs less than 20 bucks in bulk at
costco, I've been re-filling the four HP OJ 145 ink tanks (some call
them cartridges but the jets are separate) successfully since January
of 2003. Once a quarter or so, I refill the ink tanks with a few drops
of ink, always keeping the sponges wet and turning off the Hewlett
Packard paper-counting checks which HP uses as a lousy substitute for
ink level checking.

Questions for printer experts:
Q1: How do I bypass this "8 days to expire" HP ink tank setting?
Q2: Is an HP ink tank really timed to shut down in 18 months?
Q3: Do I just replace the tanks or do I have to replace the jets?

Please help,
Orak Listalavostok

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