I should not have bought a new Printer

[Flopper]

I feel your pain and anguish. And migraine. I went thru a lot of home printers for years. Most all of them were ok, except for having to shovel a LOT of money into cartridges. So, I learned how to buy the generic replacement inks and reuse my old cartridges. Until HP and some of the other printer companies decided they were going to jack up the price of their printer cartridges and start making their cartridges and printers where you CANNOT refill them or use used cartridges in place of new ones. You HAVE to buy brand new company cartriges or they just don't work. Now the printer companies have these machines update every couple of months. This "update" isn't really an update for anything, it's a program that relays your printer usage information back to the company. This is so they can know if you are trying to "screw the company" by using other things and not THEIR brand new, over priced products. AND these "updates" are geared for forcing your printer to stop functioning if they are messed with in any way. Right now I have a Canon multi function Eco Tub printer. I got tired of wasting so much money on ink cartriges, so I got one of these Eco tank printers. I've had the printer for 5 years now, and I've only had to fill up the ink tanks once. And they are only half way down as of today. I don't use them that much, but it sure saves me a ton of money on ink cartridges. And when it asks for installing updates, I just click the window off my screen. It won't pop up again for a couple months.........so its not really a bother. Greedy bastards at these tech companies.

Years ago, HP decided that they would force their completion out of the market by introducing low priced junky printers and make their profit on the sale of ink cartridges. It backfired because the competition followed the HP lead. Today printer manufactures deceive their customer by telling them that if they don't buy their over priced supplies, they will damage their printer, void their warranty, and degrade quality of their printing, which is a bunch of lies.

Most HP inks are out sourced to Chinese manufacturing companies like other ink jet printers manufactures. I've used Office Depot ink cartridges for years and I have never seen any difference in photo quality or any degradation in my printers. The only difference I have noticed is the Office Depot cartridges cost about half of what the HP cartridges cost.

 

[Dr.Destructo]

Years ago, HP decided that they would force their completion out of the market by introducing low priced junky printers and make their profit on the sale of ink cartridges. It backfired because the competition followed the HP lead. Today printer manufactures deceive their customer by telling them that if they don't buy their over priced supplies, they will damage their printer, void their warranty, and degrade quality of their printing, which is a bunch of lies.

Most HP inks are out sourced to Chinese manufacturing companies like other ink jet printers manufactures. I've used Office Depot ink cartridges for years and I have never seen any difference in photo quality or any degradation in my printers. The only difference I have noticed is the Office Depot cartridges cost about half of what the HP cartridges cost.

Yeah, thats when I switched from HP to Brother and then to Canon.

The way HP dealt with that was, they put chips in their ink cartridges and if it wasn't a brand new HP cartridge, the printer wouldn't accept it. Only the older printers before the start of auto-monthly "updates" in their printers would work.
Mine stopped taking used cartridges and refilled cartridges at some point, so I just bought a Brother that was on clearance.

Had that for a couple of years and then bought the Canon EcoTank about 4 years ago, and I've been fine since.
Only have to clean the thing once or twice a year, depending on how much I used it, which isn't often. I won't buy anything else but these EcoTank printers now.

 

[Flopper]

Yeah, thats when I switched from HP to Brother and then to Canon.

The way HP dealt with that was, they put chips in their ink cartridges and if it wasn't a brand new HP cartridge, the printer wouldn't accept it. Only the older printers before the start of auto-monthly "updates" in their printers would work.
Mine stopped taking used cartridges and refilled cartridges at some point, so I just bought a Brother that was on clearance.

Had that for a couple of years and then bought the Canon EcoTank about 4 years ago, and I've been fine since.
Only have to clean the thing once or twice a year, depending on how much I used it, which isn't often. I won't buy anything else but these EcoTank printers now.

Aren't the ink tank printers a bit messy to deal with?

 

[Dr.Destructo]

Aren't the ink tank printers a bit messy to deal with?

I have had NO PROBLEMS with it.

I mean, if you spill your ink, yeah. But the ink bottles I get have spouts on them, and you just turn them over into the opening of the tank and squeeze, till the tank is full.

Cleaning it twice a year is a pain, cause its time consuming, but its definitely worth it to me to have one.

 

[hondo 50]

i just memorize everything