Do you ever tire of always running out of ink in your printer and overpaying for cartridges? Well Epson has a solution for you, its called the EcoTank and they declare it won’t run of ink for two years or 11,000 pages.
Instead of cartridges the printer has permanent tanks that can be refilled.
It cost more upfront, like $400-$500 and refills will run you around $60.
The question is, do you use the printer enough for it to be worth the cost?
Only use b&w laser printer for the business . . . and those cartridges last forever . . . have no need for expensive color printing . . . and I wonder how many people do anymore?
I remember when people used to print out EVERYTHING from their computer. Now ???
Hillary printed all her e-mails that’s she’s going to hand over to State Department.
I guess she ran out of ink before she got to the most interesting ones.
So now you can pay for refills AND have the added excitement of an ink spill!
I bought a bunch of replacement cartridges for my Epson then it broke down. Now I just send the few documents I need to be printed to a local office supply store. They charge me next to nothing so I don’t need no stinkin’ printer.
Never had a printer….never wanted to print anything out.
Never had a big computer either. Just an iphone.
I quit touching myself on the printer and the copies have become flawless….
willy I’m sure glad to hear you quit touching yourself on the printer. 🙂
Meh. I print out scores of recipes (I cook A LOT) so that when the Barackalypse finally gets here, I have hard copies of everything, including medical info and relevant info that I don’t want locked in a computer when there’s no power.
Most (if not all) consumer grade printers today have a little page counter chip in them and will render the printer useless after a certain threshold. Built in deprecation so you need to buy a new printer.. essentially they will “support” the printer for however long they want. There is a hack to reset the page count.
I used to hang with guy that threw away his printer when the cartridges were empty because the new printer came with new cartridges for about the same price or cheaper. Yeah he was the self proclaimed king of cheap.
If you take a destroyed printer back to Staples and tell them rioting negroes killed it, they’ll replace it for free in exchange for you not putting on facebook how it happened.
That’s EASY!
A smart office plan includes each having their own BnW duplex printer and one networked color unit.
I left out both are laser
Many years ago, I had an Epson color inkjet printer. I printed a photo of my son sitting in a yellow Stearman bi-plane. Incredible color and excellent photo. It is hanging on my wall.
Now I have an HP. I tried printing the same photo and it looks like shit. HP’s are good for printing black and white, single pages, standard weight bond paper. If you try to print anything heavier than normal paper in an HP, it will crap out because HP thinks the paper should rest in a tray and then be folded 180 degrees before printing. My old Epson had a tray that just held the paper upright and passed the paper through to the print cartridges, regardless of the weight, without folding or reversing the paper. Much better than the HP method.
Pretty sure HP sells printers at cost. The REAL money is in selling replacement cartridges. And of course, each generation of printer uses a different cartridge so all those old ones won’t work. Come to think of it, to hell with Carli Fiorina.
you guys are so smart. You already have it figured out. If you print a LOT just get a BnW laser, the toners are 2 to 3 times as expensive as ink but print 10x as much or more.
If you just print the occasional thing now and then .. just get a cheap inkjet and be done with it.
The worst mistake is to get a color inkjet for heavy use, just way to expensive.
Also, if you print a LOT pony up for a real laser printer that can be maintained, look for a maintenance kit for the printer before buying it, you can replace the fuser and roller and so on. The real cheap lasers don’t allow maintenance, they are disposable too.