Darn, yesterday I was printing out some pictures and my trusty H.P.7960 suddenly sounded like it was power shifting from 4th to reverse. Red lights came on telling me the ink carriage was stuck. I opened it up and everything was normal and it moved easily. So after the wait period I printed a test sheet and it came out all screwed up. I removed the printer from the computer, uninstalled it and then reinstalled everything and the same thing. So it wasn't a bad driver. I finally bought a new H.P. Photo smart C7280 All In One and so far it is great. It uses the new type ink and the pictures and copies are sharper and the ink is supposed to last a lot longer. I was looking in the book where I keep my records for this stuff and the old one was 4 years old and had printed a ton of pictures and papers. But what surprised me was that when I bought it 4 years ago, I gave almost as much for it as the new one cost.
Anyway I took the old one apart to get it ready for the garbage and I never could find a stripped gear or anything else that looked out of place except a big gooey puddle of ink down on the bottom below where the carriage went to rest at the far right hand side.
Ron
