Dell 810 Printer = WORST PRINTER EVER!!!

Just bought this printer a couple of days ago. I thought its Dell, so its trusted.
I printed out some work and a couple of images and the stupid thing ran out!

The inks were almost as much as it was for the printer!! So I bought a refill kit. I refilled my inks and the stupid thing for ink EVERYWHERE!

I put it in my printer, and it started saying "print cartridge missing", so I took it out and blew into the holes to make the ink come through more. I put it in, and after messing about with it I finally got it to work. I printed out some work from a document, and it printed out green! So I did the cleaning thing and the colours were perfect; Black, blue, pink and yellow!

Tried to print out a picture and it came out green and yellow. I looked around and heard that it was the magneta (purple) ink. So I put another load of the magneta ink in it, and it was full to the brim and blurted all over me and the printer! (It being white doesn't help)

After cleaning everything up, I put it back in the printer and it kept giving me the "print cartridge missing" error again. I fixed that, and printed it again and it was green again.

A couple of minutes later, I tried to print something else, and my printer was just like "f$%k this" and stopped printing!

I went to the toolbar and it kept saing 'printing' and it wasn't. I clicked high priority and still it didn't. After 10 minutes, I clicked delete and it went from printing, to 'deleting' and wouldn't come off that!

Really fustrated! I've been trying to do this for almost 6 hours now and really annoyed and fustrated!

Anyone know how to help me???

..before I chop up the printer up, set it on fire and put it out with my tears?

Thanks.

 

First thing you should do before you buy a printer is to check the price of the ink cartridges and whether you can get cheap compatible replacements.

A few companies virtually give their printers, because they make their money on the ink cartridges.

I always buy Epson for colour printing as you can normally get cheap replacements, but you do have to watch their newer models as it can take a while for compatible cartridges to appear on the market.

 

I got it given to me as a birthday present, I'd feel bad if i told my mom to take it back for a better one. lol.

 

Better to cut your losses and buy a cheap 30-40$ Epson Printer

 

If I recall Dell Printers = Re badged Lexmark Printers = Overpriced crappy ink

 

dell printers are lexmark OEM
lexmark (dell) printers are NOT refillable. just buy a new cartridge so as to a new print head. then it will work perfectly again.

as to ink yield, set it to QUICK PRINT or draft mode....

 

I read that as:

I bought some low-cost equipment, made further low-cost by being refurbished or used.
I didn't know what I was doing when using it.
I then compounded the situation by doing more stuff I didn't know what I was doing.
I was then displeased with the results.
I shall now blame the manufacturer.

Correct?

The 810 seemed to blow through ink as badly as most other dirt-cheap printers. I got it free with a machine I bought - can't remember which, it's long gone now. I didn't think it was a particularly heinous AIO though for the time (it's pretty old AFAIK), did what it said on the tin pretty well as far as I could see. As MDR says, draft mode will save ink - but if you're printing out photos, etc then yes, you will use ink quickly, as with any other low-cost printer.

 

Kodak printers FTW!! $10 refills.

 

Well for starters, I don't think many companies sell there printer's with much ink in them, Lexmark does it, not sure about Dell badged Lexmarks though... And as said above, I don't think these cartridges are refillable

 

Hmm, on the website, it said its refillable and theres a video on YouTube showing someone refilling them.

Its worked, its just that black text shows as green =/

 

FWIW, I once refilled the inks on a Lexmark (had them professionally done though) and it worked with the caveat that because the printer heads are coded it kept telling me to replace my cartridges everytime I wanted to print. I just clicked ignore and it worked fine though. Now I use a laser printer. Expensive, but lasts a hell of a lot longer so it works out in the long term.

 

If you're really serious about having a printer for keeps I'd cut your losses and buy a color laser printer. They go on sale pretty often. You may not get photo quality (that's what photo printers are for) but it should serve you very well. The color quality is not bad at all; just less than you'd see whit a photo printer.

Toner lasts longer, doesn't dry up and is cheaper overall. Buying a few ink cartridges for your dell could easily outprice a color laser printer and an extra set of toner cartridges very quickly.