• audiomodder@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 months ago

      Has Epson also gone downhill? The first one I bought lasted 11 years, so about 3 years ago I replaced it with another Epson.

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          9 months ago

          What ink are you getting for $12?? Even allowing for quite a bit of poetic licence, this seems ridiculously cheap.

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            9 months ago

            What ink are you getting for $12

            That investment in a squid and giant aquarium is paying for itself, I tells ya! 😛

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            9 months ago

            It’s just a bottle of ink that you pour into the tank. You can find generic ones for $7-8.

            My wife prints 1-2 boxes of paper per year in color. About 10% of those are photograph quality. A laser printer wouldn’t cut it for the photographs so I got her an ecotank.

            The tanks hold 130ml of ink so they last a long time. The largest HP cartridge held like 49ml of ink of I recall correctly. Most of them had under 10ml.

            If you print infrequently or an absolute ton (like an office) a laser printer is better. If you print a case or two of paper per year and photographs, the inkjet is better.

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        9 months ago

        I’ve still been having good experiences with new Epson printers. Epson and brother good, hp needs to be sued to the stone age.

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        9 months ago

        What I heard is that Epson is even better than Brother and the ink is even cheaper, but the printers are much more expensive and repairs are slow, so Brother is probably better for casual individual user.

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        9 months ago

        I threw mine from the balcony when it stopped me from scanning documents because one of the cartridges was empty.

        Been with Brother ever since.

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        9 months ago

        Did it include the manufacturer trying to lock everyone in to a pay-to-print racket?