Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: printer purchases Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:57:27 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 61 Message-ID: References: <106n49s$5c$1@reader1.panix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Injection-Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2025 14:05:55 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="690ebf63963f5fd23c030a03f94756ac"; logging-data="2950938"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18FmkD2eORcDB/Gwd36NEVqpHObdCTSOHk=" User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ygIgzX5zIjdIjOpFcmDuw35JnyE= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:70386 Groovy hepcat c186282 was jivin' in comp.os.linux.misc on Sun, 3 Aug 2025 06:10 pm. It's a cool scene! Dig it. > Screw inkjets ... invest in color laser. > A little more up front, but much cheaper > and more reliable downstream. > > Yes, the good inkjets are still better at > ultra-high-qual photos ... but we're talking > a relatively narrow segment here. > > Inkjets exist to BLEED you. Had (still have - though I should chuck it) a Brother inkjet. Got an "Ink absorber full" error message & damn thing wouldn't print. Contacted Brother who put me onto a local service centre. Contacted them, but they couldn't (or just wouldn't) give me a straight answer about how much the fix would set me back. I just wanted to know whether it would be worth my while bringing it in (on the train, since I don't drive - and over somewhat long distance, because I live in a small country town), or whether it would be better to just get a new one. Searched online for a fix I could do myself. The fix was actually fairly simple and straightforward, albeit a little involved. So I performed the fix. This seemed to do the trick..., for about one print! After that the error came back. I've perforemed the fix several times now, but the goddamn thing is cactus! Each time it seems to work, but only lasts for one print. I had a B&W laser printer, which I got mainly to print onto Press-N-Peel film to make PCBs, but I sometimes use for other printing jobs. This has been very reliable and cheap to run for years now. Actually the toner costs a bomb, but it lasts longer than any inkjet cartridge I've used. So, to replace the errant inkjet, I bought a Brother colour laser printer. I've been waiting for the crunch, when this thing stops working too. But so far I only have two gripes since I've put third party toner cartridges in it: 1) it keeps complaining about the off-brand toner, which is irritating but tolerable, and 2) one of the cartridges is not printing perfectly, not giving full coverage over the page, leaving some gaps. This can be irksome, but not a deal breaker for my purposes (simple home printing). And otherwise I'm getting good print quality, reliability and cartridge longevity. But I'll try some other third party toner in future, and see whether they perform any better. I have another inkjet that works, as well as a couple that were given to me and have never worked, plus some old ones I don't use anymore. (I don't think you can even get cartridges for them now.) And the one that works needs extensive and painstaking unblocking every time I use it. Royal pain! -- ----- Dig the NEW and IMPROVED news sig!! ----- -------------- Shaggy was here! --------------- Ain't I'm a dawg!!