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[Edward]

About a year ago, I purchased an HP Deskjet D1660 printer, it was less than $25.00 (USD) on sale.

Had some trouble printing with it using Linux, but Windows printing was fine. When printing reached the bottom of the page, the text would print in a multitude of colors with some colors appearing on top of one another.

Eventually, I found a solution to this problem. I changed the printer driver for it to use HP Deskjet d1600 Series, hpcups. By default, Linux used the d1600 Series hpijs driver, which caused the printer not to print anything at all.

In the Linux Printing preferences, there is a Job Options tab under Properties for each printer. Scrolling down, there is an entry for Scaling, which was set to 100% by default. I changed this setting to 99% and saved it. That 1% reduction (as small as it may seem), solved the color-mixing problem and pages now print correctly, even though the footers for a web page print (using SeaMonkey/Firefox) now print a little higher up on the page.

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[whpkalu]

I bought the HP Deskjet D1660 over all of the other printers that I saw at the store because I just required a simple printer that I could use to print out all of my work documents and maybe a few pictures. What I like about this printer is that it is tremendously easy to use and it hasn't given me any of the issues that a lot of the other printers in this price variety are known for. This post is very interesting, I like it. I will always come to visit after.I would recommend to friends more.

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[Edward]

I have installed this printer on a new PC. The Windows software for this, installed without any issues. Prints fast, colors come out nice.

My suggestion is once the ink cartridges run out, continue to use genuine HP ink cartridges. I once tried an aftermarket (store brand) cartridge in a different HP printer and had nothing but trouble. Switched back to genuine HP, it's been trouble-free.

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[Antony]

My suggestion is once the ink cartridges run out, continue to use genuine HP ink cartridges. I once tried an aftermarket (store brand) cartridge in a different HP printer and had nothing but trouble. Switched back to genuine HP, it's been trouble-free.

I always suggest that. And the fact is... genuine original manufacturer's ink/toner cartridges are not necessary more expensive than aftermarket ones once you shop around.

Here I have two laser printers and two inkjet active printers. I once tried a so-called "equal or excess the original manufacturer's quality" aftermarket toner cartridge, the result was horrible, many of the print out were way below acceptable level. I ended up throwing the cartridge out.

As for inkjet. It is important to use the genuine original manufacturer's ink. Results are clearly noticable.

Personally I would suggest to go for Epson. For average home user, choose the ones that use Epson's DuraBrite Ultra Ink? Why? Those inks gives you smudge and water resistant. I tested myself.

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[Edward]

The particular aftermarket cartridges I tried in that HP printer were $1.00 less for the color and $2.00 less for the black, versus the cost for the genuine HP's. The savings ultimately were not worth it.

My early Windows printers were Epson Stylus Color (both the 400 and 600 models). In that series of Epson printers, the printheads were inside the printer and over time, they became clogged with ink. There had never been an easy way to clean them, so the printing quality gradually degraded over time. It was more cost-effective to simply purchase a new printer.

The HP printheads, are actually part of the ink cartridge itself.

When I learned HP was friendly to the Linux community, I bought my first HP and I've been buying HP printers ever since.

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