Inexpensive printers are not built to break - they are also not the workhorses of the printer world. That said, inexpensive printers are not meant to last as long as the larger, more expensive officejet pro and laserjet pro printers that one might find in a home or business office environment. No: The printer is not designed to break after years of service so you will buy another printer. Am I supposed to be constantly using it or what? Why does it do something dumb 90% of the time when I want to print something? I just don't get Questions can be more difficult to answer than 'how to fix' questions. What fixed it? Why, turning it off and back on, of course! Why is this? Is my printer just a piece of junk designed to break after a few years so I'll have to get another printer? Also, it did something odd today that it's never done before: printed a picture with several wet dots of ink on the picture. Except the HP Print and Scan Doctor didn't fix it this time. I wasn't able to finish printing what I needed to print (some photos for a birthday present) so a few hours later, when I had time again, I tried printing them again.

Ran the HP Print and Scan Doctor, which also needed an update, and like magic, suddenly it could print again. It said it was out of paper when it wasn't. Typically, this program fixes whatever issues my printer has, because apparently it can't download its own drivers and updates like it's supposed to, and I can print afterwards. I don't print often, but when I do, it's a bit annoying to have to run the HP Print and Scan Doctor basically every single time. I have an HP OfficeJet 3830 that is about three and a half years old. Business PCs, Workstations and Point of Sale Systems.Printer Wireless, Networking & Internet.

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