Comment 43 for bug 235399

This is a very expensive and frustrating bug now in it's second year -- a least 3 releases and Lucid seems to be affected as well. It feels as though it has been orphaned and nothing is really changing (has it ever been assigned to anyone?). Should we be doing something else, contacting another team? I'm using 3 tricolor to one black cartridge -- making black with the color cartridge uses more ink and the ink is more expensive. the result is not even a good black. HP printers seem to be common hardware for Ubuntu users since so many are well supported. Many of these probably just don't realize that this is why their color ink is going so fast, especially if they do a lot of color printing as well.

What can we do? I'm happy to test, debug, or create another bug report. Is it certain now that HPLIP contains the code responsible for the problem? It seems that knowing which cartridge to draw ink from would be rather important, esp considering the expense to users.