Do these problems come from the catridges or the printer ?

[lokon]

Hello guys.

Yesterday I received a HP Deskjet 1512 that i bought from eBay, and I can't get it to function properly.

The problem I have is that if I print words or pictures under the "Plain Paper, Normal Quality" preference, I get weird results.
For texts and words, the printer skips every other lines.
For pictures, I get a poor quality with visible vertical line on top of it.

I did little bit of Google research where I found people suggesting that "Best Quality" would solve these problems. It worked somewhat, as I longer get the skipping line problem, although the pictures (Those with a darker color) would still have vertical lines over them.



However, I am still unable to print an alignment page properly no matter how hard I try. The skipping lines problem persists on the alignment papers no matter how many times I tried to "Clean Ink Cartridges" and "Clean Printer" options under the HP software toolbox, and changing the quality does not help. Also I have physically uninstalled, cleaned, installed the cartridges multiple times.



From the seller's description, there is a mention that the cartridges might be re-manufactured HP inks, so I want to know rather these problems emerged from the re-manufactured cartridges, or a fault from the printer itself ?

I have to know so that I can decide rather or not to send it back to the seller.



I appreciate any assistance, Thank you !

 

[Tradesman1]

Could be cartridges, could be out of date driverrs unless you downloaded the latest from their website, could just be a bad printer...I'd return it, sounds used and not all that up front if they mention 'might be re-manufactured HP inks' - that alone would have been enough to make me pass it by