I turned it on a couple of days later, and it worked, for a while. The printer worked as expected for the setup and installation. Broken or faulty pixels? In a scanner that had never been used? Most of the page was okay, but there were a few lines of gibberish (noise?) across the page. Noticed the print quality was pretty poor (banding, obvious dithering) like something from the late 90s. I dug the Epson out, unboxed it, set it up. Never used it as I subsequently got a cheap HP and their Instant Ink programme. I would hope they'd be stable, but who knows what kind of chemical decomposition might occur over many years in the witches brew of pigments, dyes, and solvents that we call printer ink.įunny this article turns up today. I'm less familiar with out-of-date cartridges of the box-of-ink variety. My guess would be that the use-by date was in part related to how soon HP and Canon expected their cartridges to self-destruct, with a reasonable safety margin. Three to five years after the expiration date the flexible circuits leading to the head started to de-laminate on still sealed cartridges. I also picked up half a filing cabinet full of expired and near-expired cartridges.ĭrying out doesn't seem to be the only problem. 20-odd years ago, in a desktop support role, I rescued a number of HP and Canon and Apple-branded HP and Canon inkjets that were destined for landfill because their users had just got shiny new affordable laser printers. I'm intimately familiar with out-of-date cartridges with built in print heads.
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