Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Dumb Pinter Question Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2023 13:57:50 +0100 Lines: 58 Message-ID: References: <9FKdnSx-aYhJ5pz5nZ2dnZfqn_WdnZ2d@earthlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net HJLnt9ZSxonJIKUUEsguNAy93KoC7aLx66FT3yoQn/rYzQyL+v X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:cPAfzbn1JlEhkEgDQs4K4JS9vXI= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.8.0 Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:37409 On 2023-03-04 11:42, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 04/03/2023 10:33, Mike Scott wrote: >> On 04/03/2023 07:36, 28A.I873 wrote: >>>    Anyway, this is all why I don't rec inkjets anymore. >>>    If you aren't printing all day the heads WILL gum up >>>    and you'll have to go thru 10 "purge" cycles (there >>>    goes most of yer expensive ink) to MAYbe clear all >> >> A sad story: years ago, I had a nice printer, Canon IIRC. Fairly >> speedy, duplex, print onto CD. separate cartridges for colours and >> black. Yes, nice. >> >> One day, the yellow, I think it was, ran out. I replaced it, and the >> printer ran its load/clean cycle. Now the magenta was out... You can >> see where this went..... I ended up putting a complete set of >> cartridges in purely because one had run out, and now yellow was low >> again. £50 down the drain in short order. >> >> I scrapped the printer (refused even to give it away) and bought a >> laser. Yes, I miss colour on the very odd occasion, but almost all our >> printing is in b/w and the running costs are so much lower. And no >> gumming up just because it's been idle for a week. >> >> > My HP color laserjet runs on 3rd party cartridges at around £200 a full > set, but does about 1000 color pages for that. More if its just a bit of > color - like documents with a few illustrations > It came with cartridges that do around 200 pages and the whole shebang > was not much more than £200 > > > > Generally only one cartridge runs out at a time. I had one issue with a > bad cartridge that went stripey way before it was empty, A new one fixed > it. I also had a Canon inkjet printer (BJC4200, I think), and I got tired of it. The colour cartridges were expensive (50€, maybe), and did not last long. I learned how to refill them relatively cheap, but that non original ink tended to clog. Cleaning was easy in theory, just remove the cartridge, put a few drops of alcohol on the head, wipe it, then blow a bit with my mouth with the heads on a paper tissue. Repeat till the three colours came out. And refill. And clean cycle, test. This meant that every time I needed to print something important after two weeks of not using the printer I had to waste an hour or two till the thing would work and work well. Eventually I bought an HP colour laser printer. Toner is expensive, yes, but it works every time I power it up, even after months of not using it. Considering the number of ink cartridges I wasted, I'm not sure the laser is more expensive. And my heart health improved, no more swearing :-D -- Cheers, Carlos.