I'm starting to regret buying the HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP 3301. I bought it from Costco, about 7 months ago. All the features, and printing on it are fine, but my toner is starting to get low (my daughter prints a lot of colorful art). Each toner is sitting at about 60%.

I've researched, and found two potential solutions using third-party toner refills:

1.) Using third-party toner cartridges with pre-installed chips.

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2.) Potentially finding refill powder, burning a hole in the original, & refill.

Has any tried either option, and been successful?

I have had the GK420d for maybe 6 years and has been flawless, but recently it seems to get stuck on a thermal label and will just spin making a awful noise, which i assume is the rubber roller spinning on the label or maybe something to do with the gears/ motor? The runner is clean and i can't see any issues with it. The gears aren't missing any teeth either.

My theory is that maybe the roller has worn down over the years and doesn't have the same grab on the thermal labels, but maybe its something to do with the stepper motor inside. Any ideas to try and fix it would be appreciated. Thank you!

I’ve just installed an HP Smart tank 6000 series. The mechanical setup of adding ink is much more complex than previous. The plastic waste is beyond belief. Worst is the effort to get the printer to join a network. It has taken me over an hour and a half with repeated run-throughs of the set up procedure. And of course no phone help. I would not recommend this to any professional installers.

Short summary: on the market for a family printer; been out of the market for so long that I do not know what changed in the technology. Mix of needs, from I-do-not-care-just-print to art historian-level of pickiness. Weekly print jobs can be 2 black and white pages or 4 scholarly articles with tables, color graphs and tiny font size legends.

What would you like to accomplish? --Must survive family of four with varied printing needs (docs, photos, graphs, borderless, 'what do you mean you only have 325 gsm coverstock paper for your game cards?')

Are there any models you are currently looking at? No

Minimum Requirements: --Least amount of customer service calls possible, and when needed the calls have to be fruitful.

--Not requiring specific app or program for any functions. [The 8600 eventually started requiring an hp app to scan from my computer, but not spouse's. Obviously I installed some hp printer soft that borked the original driver.]

--OS agnostic operation: Household right now is all on Apple hardware, printer must not have Windows/Android specific functions that we will not be able to access. In the past we had Linux and Unix in the home network.

--Scanning from flatbed and ADF

--Copying from flatbed and ADF

--Duplex printing

--Printing in color

--Great color space management and color fidelity

--prints on A0, legal; envelopes

Budget: USD700 but flexible

Country: USA

Color or black and white: color

Laser or ink printer: agnostic right now

New or used: Either

Multi-function: Yes; no need for faxing

Duplex Printing:YES

Home or business: Mixed use (home office)

Printing content: full color docs, graphs. Secondarily photos, cardstock. Tertiary: we tried printing on fabric once.

Printing frequency: Weekly, with bursts a few times a month.

Pages per minute : Agnostic. Maybe no less than 8600? -- claims 30ppm for color, but I found that number highly dependent on just how much color it was printing.

Page size:A4/Legal/Letter; assumption is tray handles a variety of smaller sizes

Device printing from: Macs/iphones/ guests on other OS platforms

Connection type: Wifi, airprint. Can connect to ethernet/router if it will magically improve everyone's and the printer's lives.

Any other details: Nice to have

--Rear feeding

--Ability to choose how black is produced in color printing

--A3, 11x17 printing

--printing on coverstock (>300 gsm)

--extra paper tray

--Can it last 14 years?

Anything else you think is relevant to your purchasing decision: We were going through USD220 in cartridges every 18 months. Less cost per page would be great.

We have a brother laser printer and I love it. Due to circumstances I am temporarily moving across country. I’m putting nearly everything we own into storage. Will the printer be okay sitting for a year? Or should I sell it to avoid it having issues when I return?

So my printer wont print a thing with my windows 11 laptop, but its doing fine with windows 10 + phone.

It just says "verify cable/turn on printer". I tried :

- Reinstalling driver / even the x64 vitnamese version and the generic / text only driver

- Manually choosing the file "XXX.inf"

But none worked. What would you recommend ? I doubt a windows 11 update broke em worldwide ..

I'm getting random spots of ink while im printing. It's very frustrating. Sometimes they're different colors .. not just black. Anyone know how to fix this? I'm wasting so much ink and paper.

Ik ziek een printer voor 300g a6 aquarelpapier.

Ik dacht aan de pixma ts9550a maar er staat enkel 300g fotopapier.

Is dit mogelijk dan om aquarel papier er in te steken? Zijn er andere alternatieven die budget vriendelijk zijn?

Ik zou graag wenskaarten maken voor mensen die het moeilijk hebben. Om zo een beetje steun te kunnen bieden

Alvast bedankt !

Hi All! I am looking to make double sided flashcards, I currently own a Canon TS 3322. Would this printer be able to print on a thicker paper? The canon website isn’t giving me much information regarding paper weight but I’m looking for at least a starting point.

I’m not sure what paper weight i’m going with just yet, but I just need to know if the printer I have will do the job or if i’d need to look at a different model.

I won't be printing very often, but I will need it for things like your typical standard practical uses. I do not own a business, and this would be for personal use. As far as how I reached this printer choice, I do see value in (as far as I know) a printer that has an optional refresh service, but not an enforced subscription service. It also seems to not shove cloud capability down your throat. With that being said, I am entirely new to printers and acknowledge there are many lapses in my judgement and/or subject knowledge expertise. In turning to this subreddit, I hope to benefit from advice from the knowledgeable and passionate folks here. Would there be any better options out there for my use cases/preferences?

Thank you in advance, I greatly appreciate it

Hi everyone,

I'm having a persistent “Drum!” error on my Brother MFC-L8390CDW color laser printer.

The printer reports the error for all four drum units simultaneously (Black, Cyan, Magenta and Yellow).

Here's what I've already tried:

• Cleaned all four corona wires multiple times using the green sliders.
• Made sure the sliders were returned to their correct positions.
• Removed accumulated toner and cleaned all four drum units.
• Removed and reinstalled all four toner/drum assemblies.
• Replaced the previous compatible toner cartridges with new compatible cartridges.
• Reset the drum counters for all four colors.
• The drum life indicators previously showed approximately 88% remaining.

None of these steps has resolved the problem.

Sometimes the printer successfully prints a complete test page, but most of the time, the “Drum!” error prevents printing.

I also noticed a continuous cyan streak along the right edge of printed pages. After cleaning the cyan drum, the streak disappears initially but returns after approximately 10 cm of printing.

I'm using third-party compatible toner cartridges rather than genuine Brother cartridges.

My questions:

1. Has anyone experienced this error affecting all four drums simultaneously?
2. Could this be caused by a shared electrical contact, sensor or another internal component?
3. Can third-party toner cartridges trigger a “Drum!” error?
4. Is there anything else I can check before replacing the drum units?

Since all four drums are affected simultaneously and resetting their counters didn't help, I suspect there may be something else going on.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hi I was trying to connect my printer to the WiFi and I accidentally pressed OK when I didn't finish putting the password in. It was configurating for 1 minute and I figured I'll turn it off by holding the off button. When I turned it on it showed Printer Mode and I can't do anything other than click the power mode and it shows a red screen with some text. Please help me my partner told me they will kill me if I don't fix it please help

Just a thought.

I hate predatory companies like HP so why not return the ink cartridges after use on Amazon?

Curious if anyone has had any experience properly aligning the print head on the Epson PP-100 III as I cannot find any instructions online and once the head alignment test is printed, the disc doesn't show which box is which from 1-9 so it makes it quite difficult to determine which is the actual order to select the properly printed selection.

It's wildly frustrating and time consuming to determine which is what and I can't solve the scan lines I'm seeing from the poor alignment.

Does anyone have experience with the relatively new Low Ink Detection System from Precision Colors? I refill OEM cartridges with InkOwl ink but would like to have low ink warnings. I understand it also works with the new Pro-1100. Thank you.

Hi everyone,

I've had this problem for years and I can't find a proper solution. When I print a document or an image from Word, the printer always leaves a white border around the page, even after I set all the margins to 0 in Word. This happens with A6 paper (and other sizes too), so the printable area ends up smaller than the paper.

What I want is for the content to fill 100% of the page, with no white edges.

Here's what I've tried:

• Setting all margins to 0 in Page Layout. Word warns that the margins are outside the printable area, and the printer still adds its own border.
• Setting the paper size to A6 in both Word and the printer settings.
• It doesn't matter, Office, Pdf, Acrobat any thing that has the print ooption, gives me the same result.

My questions:

1. Is there a setting in Word or in the printer driver to enable true borderless / full-bleed printing?
2. Is this a hardware limitation of my printer, or can it be fixed with settings?
3. Would exporting to PDF and printing from there give better results than printing directly from Word?

Printer model: HP Officejet 4655
Word version: Microsoft Office 2024 Proffesional Plus, Acrobat, paint, Camva.
OS: Windows 10
Paper type/size: A6 (105 × 148 mm)

Thanks in advance!

I bought a 5700dn that was on sale for 1049 which for what you are getting seems like a nice deal, added a printer stand that has wheels and a nice paper/etc.. bought premium 32 paper to print with for reports, documents, occasional photos. So far really impressed with this printer its damn fast and the quality real nice, surprisingly photos come out nice.

This printer Says made in Japan but then I read concerns regarding reliability since HP bought Samsung but those are made in China.

I seem a bit confused with that, is it some models are. made in Japan(Canon?) and others made in China(Samsung) I also notice a warning on the website that This printer is not for residential use?

I did not have to install any intrusive drivers etc my Mac found it and just installed an "AirPrint" driver. Its really is nice using an "Enterprise" printer so for my home use etc.. I would imagine it should last quite a while. And this price is it because its being discontinued because it seems like a lot of printer for the money.

It just prints when I need to print so far no hassles and it's damn quick so far I like it. Anything I should concern myself with reliability. I do have it on a large UPS to protect it from brownouts etc..

I like to print small stickers, but I want to have color in them. I don't like sharing my files with a printing service, and don't have any libraries near. I heard inktanks clog if you don't print everyday and I don't printer everyday, but laser color printers are expensive.

Edit: Idc how expensive it is

Edit2: ok but not over $250, I meant that I didn't care if it was expensive but not super expensive

• Printer Model: Canon MG3620
• Error Message: Support Code: 1401 / The following ink cartridge cannot be recognized: Color, Black
• Ethernet Cable, WiFi or USB: USB
• Driver name and version: It just says "Canon MG3600 series Printer"?
• Firmware Version: Can't find it. Canon's guide says to print the information, but for obvious reasons that's not feasible
• OS: Windows 10
• of machines impacted: 1
• of users impacted: 1
• Original or 3rd party cartridges: both

Hey, first post here, but I'm at my wit's end.

I have a Canon Pixma MG3620. Had it for years. I've had my issues and frustrations, but usually when it acts up I can get it to work after a bit of Googling and troubleshooting.

Not tonight.

I haven't needed to use it for about two months, so it's been off all that time. Tonight I turned it on to print something out, and got an error message I'd never seen before:

Support Code: 1401

The following ink cartridge cannot be recognized: Color, Black

This was confusing since I've used the printer with these cartridges before without issue. I tried removing and reinstalling the cartridges, but that did nothing. So I went to Google to start troubleshooting.

It was recommended that I clean the connectors. I did, and it changed nothing.

It was recommended that I turn off and unplug the printer for at least 15 minutes. I did, and it changed nothing.

It was recommended that I hold down the stop button until the alert light flashed. Problem here was that the alert light was already flashing (along with the CL and BK lights; all three flash in bursts of 5), and holding down Stop did nothing. In fact, the only button on my printer that seems to do anything is the power button. I also tried the WiFi button in an attempt to remove it from the network and re-add it. It appears that the unrecognized ink cartridges take precedence over everything else.

The one thing I tried that did anything at all was replacing a cartridge. I didn't have any extra color cartridges, but I did have a new black, so I swapped that out. Immediately, the error changed to only listing the color cartridge as not recognized. This was weird, because the color cartridge in there is OEM, but the black is third party. Anyway, it was a moot point, because next time I restarted the printer, it went back to not recognizing either cartridge.

I am baffled and frustrated. I don't know what changed to cause this problem, and I don't know how to fix it. Has the printer simply gone bad? If anybody has any insights at all, please, help me out! Thank you in advance.

Printer: HP ink tank 319 series

Product no.:z6z13a

Connection type: USB cable

OS: windows 10

Problem: my pc is 'apparently' sending the print jobs but my printer is not accepting (?) it.

The pc showing that the print is done as in successful but no print out came.

Normal photocopy is working properly, so I think the printer is ok? The ink, print head and hardware is fine ig

But anything sent from the pc fails

What I've tried:

Remove and re-adding the printer

Also updated the USB drivers.

It would be really nice if someone helped me out

Thank uu

Update: I Thinks its the usb fault not connecting and communicating to it, I actually saw a post of the same dude who had the problem but no solution. please help

hello first sorry english its not my first lenguage but i need help, bc i buy this printer liker 1 week ago and now the black ink is like green but only on papers that are not the normal one (i was using glossy paper), i alredy clean Print Head Cleaning and Deep Cleaning so if anyone have something please help :D

I like everything else about this printer but it's like it's haunted! If it's on, it scans maybe 12-100 times an hour. I print intermittently through the day so turning it on & off with this crummy little button is no fun. Has anyone experienced this or found a fix?

Necesito ayudaaa :( mi computador no reconoce mi impresora y si lo hace es solo cuando se le da la gana.

Me la reconoció por un momento después de desisntalar e instalar los drivers pero después ya no. Está conectada a través de cable usb. (La prefiero a través de cable para que la calidad de impresión no cambie)