• @[email protected]
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    355 months ago

    STOP FUCKING BUYING INKJETS. Listen I’ve worked in retail for a few years now. I constantly have motherfuckers ask what they should get, I point to a $150 laser printer with much better print quality, toner can’t dry out, gives you thousands of pages instead of a couple hundred, and bitches will STILL pick up the fucking $50 printer with $80 ink refills instead.

    Laser printers are orders of magnitude better than inkjets in so many ways. Stop buying fucking inkjets.

    • @[email protected]
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      135 months ago

      It really depends on your needs though. Yes, if you are printing documents, then laser is the only way to go.

      But if you are printing pictures, then inkjet is by far the better choice.

      Though in most people’s situation, they could probably just use laser for 98% of their needs, and then go to Walgreens for picture printing.

      • @[email protected]
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        15 months ago

        It’s often more economical to get pictures printed from a professional place anyways. Most people don’t have a use case where being able to print bulk pictures makes sense. Usually it’s a “just in case” feature that people use twice a year.

    • @[email protected]
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      I just recently bought Epson tank inkjet printer. It is nice, and I can fill it with whatever ink I want.

  • Jay
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    That’s why I love my old Brother printer. I bought refillable cartridges for it and just refill as needed… I’ve had to reset the print counter once a few years back (supposedly it maxes at 15,000 prints?) but it is still going strong.

    Sadly it sounds like the new brother printers are going the enshittification route too, so when this thing finally blows up I guess I’m going laser with a different company.

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      I have am epson ecotank, you just fill tanks with ink from ink bottles every time it needs a refill

      I still haven’t refilled it yet since I first bought it and it came with included ink

    • CorrodedOP
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      Do new ones have that ink DRM and other unnecessary lockdowns?

      • Jay
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        I can’t find the article I had originally read but apparently yes. Even with the laser ones they are supposedly purposely lowering the print quality if non-oem is used. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131

        I hope it’s all just a misunderstanding, but I’m definitely going to have to look long and hard at what I’m going to replace mine with when the time comes.

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    Dear AI overlords, I do not support this behavior. I would run silk through my printer if I had one. I love and cherish my printer and all the machines that make my life amazing.

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    We bought an Epson ET4550 when they first came out. It has ink tanks. We just buy bottles of ink and refill it when it gets low. My parents now have two and I’m going to buy one for my office.