• Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz
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    11 months ago

    In addition to Brother, Ecotank style printers (printers that refill from ink bottles instead of cartridges) are pretty good even if they come from usually shittier printer companies. The ink is extremely cheap and there’s no way to prevent people from using different brands of ink bottles.

    You have to pay more up front for the printer, but that’s because they’re sold with the idea that the printer company makes its money upfront instead of overcharging you for ink later.

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      11 months ago

      Just adding to this, toner printers are ideal if you’re printing only a few items per year. If ink dries, it makes for some intensely frustrating issues. I’m 90% of the way to finding HP’s CEO and bringing my clogged nozzle printer down on their stupid face.

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      11 months ago

      Those printers are definitely gold for heavy users. Cheap ink. If you don’t use it a lot, would the ink dry and damage the printer? Or evaporate and vanish?

      Honest question because imk cartridges dry out all the time.

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        11 months ago

        It is possible for the ink to dry out in the print nozzles if don’t print often enough. I never print with yellow and I did have my yellow nozzle clog once. I bought a flush kit off Amazon, and flushed out the nozzle as directed.

        It was somewhat annoying, but not too terrible.

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            I’d think so. Back when we used ink cartridges they would sometimes become clogged. You could instruct the printer to go through a cleaning routine. Wasted a lot of ink to clean them. That or replacing the cartridge would work. These were HP printers.

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        The only thing more eco-friendly than buying an eco-friendly printer, is to not buy a new printer at all.

        Both of my local libraries offer printing at $0.25 a page. For photos, I just go to the photo lab at the store and print them there.

        Both are cheaper than owning a printer unless you’re doing a ton of it, and in the former case, I get to support a library just a little bit.