doesn’t help that printer ink is one of the most expensive liquids in the world and the whole business model of printer companies is based on selling overpriced ink, so much so that they sell printers at a loss and then try to block out third party cartridges
Fuck my printer ink is like $20 for 3 of all 4 colors and the larger black cartridge it has. I love my Canon.
I tossed my Canon ink printer in the trash lol.
it started with low on cyan, so I did what it asked for and replaced the whole ink set, but then found out that the previous ink has dried on the ink tuner since I haven’t used the printer for ~6 months and didn’t feel like spending any more money on this shit.
So I got my myself a laser brother printer and it’s been kicking for over 6 years now
I have a Pixma mx922 and it just works for what I need. I recently replaced all the inks and they all looked empty and the printer said I had plenty left in everything but cyan. It’s dumb enough it’ll run out of ink if you let it. I love it.
But yeah if I needed a new one I’d go laser.
buy a Brother, or better yet a laser printer.
I’ll only buy Brother printers now. The print quality is pretty good and they just work on my Linux desktop.
Even scanning over the network works on Linux on my Brother MFP. I really didn’t expect that.
It’s fairly easy (drill hole, inject ink with syringe, seal hole with soldering iron) but it’s pretty messy. It’s good to have a work area you can fuck up and latex gloves are a good idea. I don’t know how to reset the chips, but I keep a set of new full cartridges separate from the ones I refill and when the dialog shows up saying the printer is out of ink (even when the refilled cartridges are nearly full) I just pop in the new carts and print one page of something, then put the refilled carts back in and they’ll work for a few weeks until I have to do it again.
Well worth it financially - a set of new carts is $70 whereas $30 of raw ink + syringes will refill the carts like 10 times or so.
I was in the market this year so shopping around laser color ones I noticed the reviews for even the Brother said it would brick your printer if you use 3rd party toners. So just look before you buy. I ended up buying their more expensive one because of that, but still not entirely sure its 3rd party compatible. Ill research whether thats the case when my toner needs replaced.
Obligatory “buy a Brother B&W laser printer” comment
They’re actually more economical than modern HP printers because of their anti-consumer BS.
They have to print the invisible printer identification dots somehow.
Printers print very small dots on the sheet of paper you print so it canbe identified. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
Who needs color anyway? A black laser printer is the way to go :)
Yeah. The vast majority of people have no real reason to own a color printer. Black and white laser does the job and only if you need to print something like photos at home, should you even consider an inkjet.
Even then it depends how many you want to print.
Often will work out cheaper to have somebody else print them and post them to you.
Yeah but it’s almost always something I need quick, like a shipping label or something. It’s really more about convince than anything else for me.
I have a b&w laster printer, an old Kyocera relic from the mid-2000s. Got it from a previous job that was remodeling their offices. I refuse to let go of it, I don’t care how many brown-outs it causes when I’m printing something (seriously, it dims the lights when it fires up).
I’ll only replace it with an equally beefy color laser printer.
