Question How much do you hate your printer?

[RubyToogood]

Mine also is an Epson WF something or other. I've always been too scared to try the non Epson cartridges.

Hence that little returns label costing me £30 and a trip to Brixton.

 

[dessiato]

I have an Epson XP-720 which we have had for a good few years, I use it mostly for scanning but Mrs Q does a fair bit of printing. I buy generic cartridges for it at the fraction of the price of a 'genuine' Epson one.
Every time I change one it nags me about using 'non-genuine' cartridges and I have to select Accept to carry on. It prints fine with them though, I haven't used an epson cartridge for absolute yonks.

I've only ever used generic cartridges in my printers. Never yet had a problem, I'd not recommend using the OEM ones. I can't, from my experience, justify the cost.

 

[contadino]

My printers are a lovely pair of ladies in town. Whenever I pop in to pick something up they demand to see recent photos of the dogs and enquire whether I've had any good scores on Freecycle.

 

[heinous seamus]

I used to look after the printers at a large university. The printers were alright to be honest, it was the people using them that were the problem

 

[Puddy_Tat]

it was the people using them that were the problem

problem in chair, not in computer...

 

[weltweit]

One of the printer makers was making an offer for a printer that orders its own supplies. So just as the Cyan cartridge runs out a new one arrives in the post.

Seems like an idea.

However I don't print my photos at home, I get them printed on a professional Fuji Frontier printer in a shop, and they are water fast meaning I can wipe off finger prints with a wet cloth and the colours don't run.

I don't think I will ever print in colour at home, so my black laser is a fine solution when I do need to print, even if toner replacements are expensive.

 

[newme]

I got a brother laser. So it lasts indefinitely and takes cheap cartridges. No problem, got all the grandparents on the same model.

 

[neonwilderness]

 

[RubyToogood]

I still have cyan stained hands from vigorously shaking the supposedly empty cartridge yesterday.

Bitter laugh.

 

[friendofdorothy]

Can anyone explain why a full set of XL inkjet ink costs more than buying a new printer?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Can anyone explain why a full set of XL inkjet ink costs more than buying a new printer?

capitalism

 

[friendofdorothy]

capitalism

still mystifies me why those tiny pots of misery cost more than vintage champagne.

 

[weltweit]

I have a cellular hate

Until my printer is paraded around the streets pelted by excrement

 

[Puddy_Tat]

still mystifies me why those tiny pots of misery cost more than vintage champagne.

it's their business model - sell the printers cheap and make it up on the ink once they have a captive market.

you can get decent compatible cartridges for a heck of a lot less for most printers (i mentioned a source up the thread a bit)

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Can anyone explain why a full set of XL inkjet ink costs more than buying a new printer?

They contain more ink then the ones you get with the printer. As ink is silly money they sell the printer cheap to get you hooked.

 

[iona]

Never had any problems with them. I was the printer whisperer last time I had a vaguely officey job. Manager there did often threaten to bring the printer along to volunteer wellbeing sessions though, after I'd fixed whatever problem he was having

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Thankfully I've not used a printer at all for at least three years now - have a cheapo scanner/printer at home but that just gathers dust, and have no need to print anything at work as everything is done on the laptop.

 

[jannerboyuk]

Black and white laser printer, never a problem. Ink jets are the devil’s arsehole of course.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Thankfully I've not used a printer at all for at least three years now - have a cheapo scanner/printer at home but that just gathers dust

if it's an inkjet, it may have got clagged. Mine did a couple of years back. I got a set of cleaning cartridges which cured it.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Getting a B&W laser printer is absolutely the answer. Inkjets are horrible torture devices that strain both nerves and wallets. Also, you get that nice warm paper smell from a laser printer.

 

[contadino]

problem in chair, not in computer...

PICNIC

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Getting a B&W laser printer is absolutely the answer. Inkjets are horrible torture devices that strain both nerves and wallets. Also, you get that nice warm paper smell from a laser printer.

This a 1000% I think mine is like 14.years old (maybe more). They just keep going. I've gone through multiple cheap inkjet in that time, before giving up on them, but the brother keeps plodding.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Getting a B&W laser printer is absolutely the answer.

i might do that when the current one finally comes to an end (although that would then mean getting a separate scanner) and there's odd occasions (although less than there used to be) when i do want to print in colour

 

[SpookyFrank]

• Printer is not connected to wifi
• OK, can I not just plug it in with a USB cable?
• No

I tried printing something with a mac once. I swore an oath that day that I would never buy anything made by apple.

 

[8ball]

• Printer is not connected to wifi
• OK, can I not just plug it in with a USB cable?
• No

I tried printing something with a mac once. I swore an oath that day that I would never buy anything made by apple.

Should have used a printer.

 

[Chz]

On the advice of many, many a nerdy friend and co-worker we bought a Brother laser.

First time I've never had any problems at all, and I can afford to buy toner instead of spending less on a whole new printer.

 

[Pickman's model]

I love my printer. But that's because I don't pay for the leccy, the toner or the paper because it's at work

 

[Puddy_Tat]

out of curiosity, i've just looked (the filing system works sometimes) and i got my current inkjet printer in october 2013 so don't think it's doing too bad

 

[BigMoaner]

Most Printers I meet are absolute cunts of the highest order.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

HP (Hewlett Packard) are cunts of the highest order and I will die on this hill. Bastardfuckingcuntybastardingbastardyfuckingcuntingcunts.