• Screwthehole@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            You don’t get the same quantity of ink in the cartridges.

            When I used to sell computer equipment, I knew the numbers and while I don’t know them specifically now, I can assure you the multi billion dollar companies didn’t start putting more ink in the cartridges that come with their printers. They are starter cartridges and print only a portion of the pages replacement cartridges will print. In my day, the cartridges that came with Epson, canon, Lexmark, and HP (the brands we sold) typically had 20-30% of the capacity. Once in awhile Epson would sell a printer with full cartridges as a promo.

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              I mean, you’ve already made a bad choice going with an inkjet. Buying more ink is a bad decision. So is buying a new printer but you might get better features

              And if anything you’re part of a nice metric that shows buying replacement ink isn’t happening

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      1 year ago

      Fuck my printer ink is like $20 for 3 of all 4 colors and the larger black cartridge it has. I love my Canon.

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        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

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          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.