HP re-manufactured cartridges 'sudden death'

[John Marsh]

For over a year, I have been using retail re-manufactured cartridges in an HP Deskjet D1470 printer. Last week, it stopped working with them: constant blinking from the LED in the power button; 'printer busy' message on PC. This occurred both with a re-manufactured cartridge that had been working OK and with a fresh re-manufactured cartridge from a major high street retailer.

I tried powering printer and PC off->on; also disabled the ink level warning on the PC end.

Interestingly, my other HP item, a Deskjet F380 similarly refuses to accept the re-manufactured cartridges.

More tales like this are reported here.

The HP problems occurred just when I needed to make copies of important documents!

I have now converted to Canon. Their Pixma MP280 series is more refill-friendly.