Hey Richard!!

Welcome to PCWorld Community!

Yes , we get some frustrated members from time to time

who only want to be heard and listened to.

That's quite alright. As long as you don't through away that printer.

Are you here to stay or will you be going back to the UK sometime in the future?

If you are ( going back that is ) you could pick up a printer in the states for allot less

this way you would still have the HP for when you go back.

As far as the notebook you would like to buy, HP is not the only one on the market.

Although they do seem to have a good selection along with the prices to go with them.

The best part about HP is that you can custom order the unit to your liking.

Besides Dell ,( I wouldn't even consider a Dell , but that's me ) there are not to many that would customize

one

for you at a Reasonable price.

If you think about it for a second, it was not the hardware that gave a problem but, changing countries.

Would it be an outrageous suggestion that you order the cartridges from the UK or would that be an expensive venture?

In any case , you could still get a printer with good quality prints for around $70.00 US

If you would like help in choosing a notebook , start another thread and you will get all the info.

needed to make a wise decision.

Flashorn.

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Patience is life.

Hi Richard, I agree about that region thing. Maybe one of these days they will set an International standard for this stuff. I recently bought a DVD movie that was advertised as all regions and it was released by Lion's Gate Studios. When I got it, It was indeed released By LionsGate, but it was Lions gate UK. Right then I had the sinking feeling that it was in the PAL format instead of NTSC. It was. When I contacted Amazon,com, they appologized and offered a refund. I had the refund within the hour and shipped the movie back the following morning. Anyway, this is first I have heard of this in other than DVDs and Video Tapes. I do know the power requirements are different as well as the plugs and outlets. I have an HP 5180 All-in-One printer and was looking through the book. According to the book you can set the Country/Region as well as language. 1) Press setup 2) scroll down to preference press OK 3) scroll down to set language press OK 4) scroll down to the language you want to use press OK 5) When prompted press scroll down to highlight yes or no then press OK 6) press Country/Region then press OK 7) scroll down to the country / region you want then press OK 8) when prompted Press scroll down to hightlight yes or no and then press OK and you're done. This was from the book that came came with my printer so I don't really know if it will apply to your printer. All this is done at the printer using the printer controls. Also, this printer is only about a year old. I don't know if it will solve the problem you described or not otr even if it is doable on your printer. I thought I'd throw it out there though just in case. coastie65

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Hi Richard, I print a lot of photos as I have a digital camera and it really goes through some ink. At 8.99 British pounds, I think that is about $19 - $20 USD each at the present rate of exchange and the Black cartridges are more for some reason. I didn't know if your printer would set up the same or not and if so if changing the region would help, but thought I'd throw it out there on the off chance that it might. As I said, I've been thrown off by that region stuff myself and it is rather frustrating to say the least. The only thing I can think of is the determination of the ink levels in the European cartridges is probably metric and the US cartridges aren't. If that is the case then any cartridges bought in Canada should work, but then again, they use the same region format as the US as far as DVDs go, so probably not. I know that as far as DVDs go, the NTSC, PAL, and SEACAM ( Asia) formats go has something to do with the color. I think the regional aspects of the printers has more to do with the various measurement calibrations involved and would involve reprogramming the internal software in the printer to a different standard, but that is just a guess on my part. I know that electrical, it varies all over the world, with different types of outlet configurations, and power requirements such as voltage and amps. My neighbor travels all over the world with a laptop, and I guess he does alright as I haven't heard any complaints, except the one time he left his adapter behind in India. Sorry that set up stuff didn't work for you, but I guess it was worth a shot. coastie

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eMachines T5212.... Intel Pentium D 925 3.0 Ghz..... evga 8600 GT 256 Mb PCI-E video card..... Realtec HD audio......2 Gb 533 Mhz DDR2 memory..... Lite on CD RW; DVD +R / RW DL optical drive...... Windows XP MCE 2005....... Antec Basiq 500w PSU......200 Gb PATA HDD

I have a C5180 that for, whatever reason ,still runs at $179.95, but on the other hand the C5280 is at $149.95 and it looks pretty much the same and has the same features as the C5180. Go figure. Anyway, they all use the 02 cartridges. $9.95 here in Va. plus 5% sales tax. Incidentally, the black ones cost more for some unearthly reason. coastie

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eMachines T5212.... Intel Pentium D 925 3.0 Ghz..... evga 8600 GT 256 Mb PCI-E video card..... Realtec HD audio......2 Gb 533 Mhz DDR2 memory..... Lite on CD RW; DVD +R / RW DL optical drive...... Windows XP MCE 2005....... Antec Basiq 500w PSU......200 Gb PATA HDD