Traveling with a Printer

[JudyJB]

Has anyone ever traveled with a regular printer? I bought one several months ago, and keep it stored safely in its original box with all the packing material. Only problem is that the ink leaks out, I assume due to all the bumps it gets while I am driving.

So, I am searching for a solution--taking the ink cartridges out and storing them with the spray end up?? Or, and I just thought of this, storing the printer upside down????

It was not an expensive printer, but I suspect it is going to get donated to someone soon if I can't solve this. I get really tired of not being able to print things, so I would really like a printer that works on the road.

[snowball]

we have traveled with a printer from the get go...and never had any problems with the exception that we hit some rail road tracks
and a big bump and broke it and other stuff...until Larry died I couldn't get it to work so my sister in law gave me another one and so far
not used it...turns out it's wireless and I needed something to make it work not sure what then I moved in with dd so haven't tried using it
we had an HP 3 in one
sheila

[avalen]

I haven't traveled with mine so I can't help ya with that part,
but my ink tends to dry up with non use so I take the cartridges out and put them in a
zip lock wrapped in their original foil container.
And I sent you a pm

[Liz]

I travel with a printer. I have had no problem with ink leaking, but as Alice said, it does dry up from non-use.

[Bethers]

My first 10 years I travelled with the same cheap printer. It never broke and the ink never dried out. Finally needed the expensive new ink cartridges, so bought a new printer instead. Bought it while in California in November. Ink was dried out two months later. Haven't used it since because I'm not happy about that. Have bought new cartridges. Will see what happens. If the ink keeps drying out on this one, will wish I had kept the old.

[JudyJB]

Ink being dried out is a possibility, but I can also see lines of ink on a foam thing inside the printer. Hmmmmm.

[chalet05]

I got tired of ink drying up due to infrequent use. Also have a laser printer so gave up the deskjet. Means I only can print black and white.

[MandysMom]

In 2008 on our big trip, I brought my old HP ink jet along. It got knocked off the sofa and didn't work for a while, but Mel got it going again and I'm still using it. Have left it sit sometimes several months without using it and never had ink dry out. Just love this old printer and will be sad if they stop making the ink. It is a 950 C. At least 15 years old now.
Velda

[Wanderer2]

I got tired of paying ridiculous prices for cartridges, so I by ink by the bottle and refill my own with a syringe. I do have to buy one every once in awhile when the head wears out. But it is way less expensive. My printer isn't under warranty so it doesn't matter. Ink is ink.

[Acadianmom]

One of the printers we had would tell us that the ink cartridge was out of date. Even if there was still ink it would not work unless we changed the cartridge. I guess that was their way of keeping people from refilling the ink. That is BS as far as I'm concerned. That's like the coffee makers that try to make you use only their coffee.

Martha

[MandysMom]

At least for the printers I have owned, no ink is not just ink. Tried having certified refills on this old HP 950 and the colors were way off. Tried buying ink to refill and the cartridges malfunctioned. Printer works great only with the HP ink cartridges. So gave up trying to cheap out as it ended up costing me more both $ and aggravation. I can let this old trooper sit for months, turn it on and works every time. It fell off the sofa of the bus in 08 and Mel had to take it apart and put it back together and its worked fine ever since. On the other hand, I bet with a new one someday I won't have this good of service out of one. had same trouble with a Canon printer, only printed well with Canon cartridges. But we also don't print a whole lot. A set of cartridges can last two years for the 3 of us using it as we do.
Velda