I just got one from e-waste and its worked for 4 years, somehow.
Don’t try replacing a USB port as your first ever soldering attempt. Or at least don’t be an idiot like me, you need flux, not fucking 520°C.
I mean, it holds. It’s tilted, burnt, but works…
Drivers, Linux works fine, but not Windows. HP support page for that specific printer says the installation is automatic. Windows says it can’t find drivers. As usual, archive.org is my friend (Linux doesn’t support high-DPI feature).
But, uuuh, the high DPI takes 20 minutes per A4 page. Yeah, 20 minutes. And it is the only acceptable option for pictures or small details.
Ink, I managed to get half a liter from AliExpress on sale for 71 cents. At least black one, I don’t use color too often. And even then, I only managed to use half of the 2 bottles when I decided to print 180 pages of text in dark mode (white on black).
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I just got one from e-waste and its worked for 4 years, somehow.
Don’t try replacing a USB port as your first ever soldering attempt. Or at least don’t be an idiot like me, you need flux, not fucking 520°C.
I mean, it holds. It’s tilted, burnt, but works…
Drivers, Linux works fine, but not Windows. HP support page for that specific printer says the installation is automatic. Windows says it can’t find drivers. As usual, archive.org is my friend (Linux doesn’t support high-DPI feature).
But, uuuh, the high DPI takes 20 minutes per A4 page. Yeah, 20 minutes. And it is the only acceptable option for pictures or small details.
Ink, I managed to get half a liter from AliExpress on sale for 71 cents. At least black one, I don’t use color too often. And even then, I only managed to use half of the 2 bottles when I decided to print 180 pages of text in dark mode (white on black).