{"id":474,"date":"2012-02-17T12:38:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T12:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=474"},"modified":"2012-03-27T14:47:09","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T14:47:09","slug":"the-crazy-world-of-inkjet-printers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/17\/the-crazy-world-of-inkjet-printers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crazy World of Inkjet Printers (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About three years ago I blogged about <a href=\"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/12\/the-crazy-world-of-inkjet-printers\/\">how crazy it is that it&#8217;s cheaper to buy a new inkjet printer<\/a> than it is to buy a set of new ink cartridges. Well the printer I bought then died recently just because the nozzles on the print head were blocked. Replacing this part is just a question of taking out the ink cartridges, unlocking a clip and lifting out the print head. I phoned HP to find out if I could order a replacement part, but was told that it would cost me \u00a315 just to speak to a service technician! I did find a way of &#8216;speaking&#8217; online to someone who told me that the part would cost about \u00a360 plus delivery, so here I am again having just bought another new printer. It had to be an HP which takes the same size cartridges, as I have about \u00a3100 worth sitting in my drawer. But now it&#8217;s impossible to buy a small A4 inkjet without it having a scanner built in. I don&#8217;t need another scanner &#8211; I already have a high quality one. But there was no choice. So now I have an old printer that needs just one replacement part that will be going into the recycling bin and a new printer with a redundant scanner. Madness!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About three years ago I blogged about how crazy it is that it&#8217;s cheaper to buy a new inkjet printer than it is to buy a set of new ink cartridges. Well the printer I bought then died recently just because the nozzles on the print head were blocked. Replacing this part is just a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,11],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-inkjet","tag-printer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}