• Great Blue Heron@lemmy.ca
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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.