Printer Goes Bad

[JediSoth]

Repair nothing! For low-end models, it's actually cheaper to THROW YOUR PRINTER AWAY and buy a new one (that comes with ink cartridges) than to buy new ink cartridges.

This is starting to be true for the low-end color laser printers as well. When I worked for Office Max, I had several customers tell me that they bought cheap color inkjets and donated them to Goodwill when the ink ran out and then bought another cheap color inkjet to replace it since it was cheaper than buying the ink.

Jim Louderback at PC Magazine (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1872003,00.asp) did some calculations on some of the really cheap inkjets and figured out that you're paying between $1 - $5 for the printer, all the rest of the cost was for the ink.

JediSoth

 

[tonym]

Epson printer! Bleccch!

I had one, and won't buy another. Most everything I print is black ink. But everytime I printed something in black with my Epson, the color ink would go down a tiny bit, too. Not as fast as the black, naturally, but it would go down.

Eventually I threw away an empty, expensive color ink cartridge that was almost never used!

Oh, and if you're wondering if I couldn't have simply left the empty color ink cartridge in place and not worried about it's wasteful emptying anymore...the answer is NO. The Epson won't print black ink unless there is ink in the color ink cartridge too.

Tony M

 

[Vraille Darkfang]

Epson printer! Bleccch!

I had one, and won't buy another. Most everything I print is black ink. But everytime I printed something in black with my Epson, the color ink would go down a tiny bit, too. Not as fast as the black, naturally, but it would go down.

Eventually I threw away an empty, expensive color ink cartridge that was almost never used!

Oh, and if you're wondering if I couldn't have simply left the empty color ink cartridge in place and not worried about it's wasteful emptying anymore...the answer is NO. The Epson won't print black ink unless there is ink in the color ink cartridge too.

Tony M

The only way to fix this is to set-up the printer to only print Black & white from the Windows Printer Folder (assuming yours was the 4 cartridge set-up. That way only the Black cart is used.

But it sucks that you CAN"T PRINT BLACK & WHITE witout a COLOR INK CART.

One reason I'll never buy an epson. We use them at one of the places where I work as we got a good deal & neede to standardize.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

When does your warranty expire?

Probably already expired. It still prints great on regular copy paper. It just wouldn't "grab" the heavier paper to feed it through. That was back in March of this year when I was printing stuff on cardstock and I'd had it for awhile before that.

 

[shaylon]

I saw a small HP Color Laser printer for under 300 dollars at Staples recently. If I hadn't just bought a color all in one scanner printer copier fax I would have snatched it up.

Mythus, how many pages is it? Do you want it in color? Is duplexing ok? Do you have paper quality standards?

-Shay

 

[mythusmage]

Shaylon,

Your copy of the PDF will tell you how many pages there are.

 

[shaylon]

Shaylon,

Your copy of the PDF will tell you how many pages there are.

That would assume that I have a copy of the pdf, which I don't.

 

[mythusmage]

Then having you print out a copy wouldn't be proper.

 

[shaylon]

Then having you print out a copy wouldn't be proper.

Technically without me having proof that you had a copy, printing it out and sending it to you wouldn't be proper either, but I understand your point.

Good luck getting it printed!

-Shay

 

[mythusmage]

Technically without me having proof that you had a copy, printing it out and sending it to you wouldn't be proper either, but I understand your point.

Good luck getting it printed!

-Shay

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