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TL:DR  These hp printers seem to all be broken.

 

I purchased a Officejet Pro 9018e 23 months ago(printer #1).  The printer was broken and printed horribly with lines on it.  HP sent me a replacement 9018e that worked fine until now(printer #2).  The small white gear broke causing the printhead to lock in place.  HP Mailed me a replacement 9015e(printer #3) that had a broken scanner paper jam door hinge, completely snapped.  So they mailed me 4th printer another 9015e(printer #4).    I was required to transfer the printhead/cartridge carriage from printer #3 to #4 for some reason.  Well printer #4 has white horizontal white lines evenly spaced across it approximately every inch when you print photos just like printer #1.  I've already tried running all the printhead cleaning level 1, 2, &3.  It does nothing to fix it.  I did the clean smear print tool as well. 

Anything else I can try?  Is HP going to ship me a 5th broken printer, this is getting ridiculous?  I'm getting sick of lugging printers around and not being able to print.

 

 

Clearly HP isn't doing a good job refurbishing these replacement printers.  They are definitely refurbished because printer #4 shows 43 pages in the "Total engine page count" but I have only printed 23 pages in the Total pages printed count.  Maybe there's a good reason someone printed 20 pages and then returned this broken printer?  and clearly HP didn't refurbish and fix the problem? or maybe the printhead from printer #3 I'm using is bad?  I know the printhead from printer #2 is fine, but I can't extract it from the printer without deconstructing the entire thing to free it from it's cheap plastic tomb.  Oh and I can't even post on this forum without manually entering my product name, because the serial # on the "new" printer #4 says it's invalid when I try to add it to my account.

 

Any Ideas?

Thanks in advance for any help or advice.

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