V.T. Eric Layton Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 You've heard of having a bad hair day? Well, today was a bad hardware day for me. First my HP DVD writer started making ugly spindle motor sounds and would not read a disk, then a little later my 12 year old HP printer jammed up and broke a print head transport drive belt. Fortunately, thanks to the fact that I hoard used stuff out in my shop, I had a replacement DVD writer and an exact same model printer to replace these faulty ones with. Ain't hoarding great? All's well now. Sad about the old printer, though. She sure was a good little machine (Deskjet 842C). I bought it in 2000. It was the very first printer I ever bought brand new from a store. Nothing lasts forever, I s'pose. I definitely got my $119.00 out of it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 I think that's the same model printer we had when I first ventured into using computers. Pretty good quality, but I recall ink was expensive. Congratulations on getting 12 years out of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 We have one of those Deskjet 842C that are still running strong. Gave it to someone who has an old totally offline computer that runs Win98SE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted December 13, 2012 Author Share Posted December 13, 2012 Ink not too bad. I've been buying only B&W cartridges (don't waste $$$ printing in color) from these folks for many years... http://www.inksmile.com/ This is an 842c: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlim Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Your 842c, looks similar to my 660Cse. I can't begin to tell you what year it was purchased but it replaced an HP Proprinter XL that was a tracker feed printer. It still works (if you are on one of the Windows 2000 computers). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted December 14, 2012 Author Share Posted December 14, 2012 They do look very similar. The 660Cse must have been the 842C's grandma or some such... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ross549 Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Well, it was largely the same internals. I tore a few apart after they died. Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 Also looks like some of the others we have had over the years, like the 540C (still have one of these that works): Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 (edited) I've got a 648C somewhere in my hardware hoard. Replaced it with a 5550 that my son-in-law gave up on a few years ago. They both still work fine if you have the ink. I think I have one of those old Windows only 722C units back there as well. Edited December 14, 2012 by raymac46 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 It was very hard to kill that line of DeskJets. And very reasonable rates for ink cartridges as well....unlike today's printers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlim Posted December 14, 2012 Share Posted December 14, 2012 They also don't have the program that kills all print if the printer decides the ink is too old! Some of us take a long, long time to use up a cartridge. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted December 14, 2012 Author Share Posted December 14, 2012 I probably could have easily fixed the one that pooped out on me yesterday, but myeh... I had the spare one, so the broken one went to the garbage can outside. I have enough junk lying around for the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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