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Old Nick
Are there any printers out there, by Epson or others, that are _not_
an ink ripoff these days?
I have an Epson C61 printer. Works well, prints reasonably good
prints. Gave me no hassles installing and has never behaved strangely.
I bought an Epson because I was sick of the uppity behaviour of HP
printers, including the new one my Dad bought, which I helped him
install. Every HP I have owned has had funny paper feeding trouble,
blocked cartridges, driver trouble etc, either together or separately.
However, this printer uses ink like it's going out of stylus! I think
it's because it cleans the cartridges all the time. I think I probably
use more ink cleaning than I do printing. You cannot refill the
cartridges AFAIK. If you run out of either ink you can't
print......._or_ clean the other cartridge, or anything.
I use 3rd party cartridges, but still it's rapidly costing me more in
ink than the printer cost. I am running at over AUD $0.10 per page of
print! Accounting for a blocked colour cartridge, it's even higher. I
turned off colour, using the "print only in B&W" setting.
Unfortunately this allowed the colour cartridge to block, as I leave
the printer on all the time, and I assume it was therefore not being
cleaned.
Of course if you clean it, you use ink.
Any advice appreciated. If this is the norm, then maybe it's time
something was done to stop this ripoff. Digital cameras are all very
well, but if my prints were to cost me anything _like_ what I fear,
then there is no point.
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Whenever you have to prove to yourself that you are
not something, you probably are.
Nick White --- HEAD:Hertz Music
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an ink ripoff these days?
I have an Epson C61 printer. Works well, prints reasonably good
prints. Gave me no hassles installing and has never behaved strangely.
I bought an Epson because I was sick of the uppity behaviour of HP
printers, including the new one my Dad bought, which I helped him
install. Every HP I have owned has had funny paper feeding trouble,
blocked cartridges, driver trouble etc, either together or separately.
However, this printer uses ink like it's going out of stylus! I think
it's because it cleans the cartridges all the time. I think I probably
use more ink cleaning than I do printing. You cannot refill the
cartridges AFAIK. If you run out of either ink you can't
print......._or_ clean the other cartridge, or anything.
I use 3rd party cartridges, but still it's rapidly costing me more in
ink than the printer cost. I am running at over AUD $0.10 per page of
print! Accounting for a blocked colour cartridge, it's even higher. I
turned off colour, using the "print only in B&W" setting.
Unfortunately this allowed the colour cartridge to block, as I leave
the printer on all the time, and I assume it was therefore not being
cleaned.
Of course if you clean it, you use ink.
Any advice appreciated. If this is the norm, then maybe it's time
something was done to stop this ripoff. Digital cameras are all very
well, but if my prints were to cost me anything _like_ what I fear,
then there is no point.
******************************************************************************************
Whenever you have to prove to yourself that you are
not something, you probably are.
Nick White --- HEAD:Hertz Music
Please remove ns from my header address to reply via email
!!
<")
_/ )
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