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I regret to inform you that I bought Canon Pixma with refill tank and I happy with it. I print colorful A4 every day, sometime bw pages, for two years and so fa

by deely3 4y ago

I regret to inform you that I bought Canon Pixma with refill tank and I happy with it. I print colorful A4 every day, sometime bw pages, for two years and so far I spent like $8-12 on ink refills.

voxelghost 4y ago
There seems to be some disconnect between >I regret to inform you ... and >...and I happy with it. >I spent like $8-12 on ink refills. Yeah I am still working on the bottles that came in the box, family of 4 with college students that print out a lot of work. For me it is not even the cost of the ink that bothers me the most with the ink-cartridge-printers, it is the constant complaining about Cyan cartridge being low, and then refusing to print even black and white documents, then you replace one and the next day it starts complaining about Magenta or Yellow. With the ink-tank there is a window into the tank - and you can see how much ink is left in each tank by this fantastic AR (Actual Realty) feature.
- deely3 4y ago
  Sorry, looks like I failed on trying to sarcasm. Im pretty happy with this printer, but somehow there always a crowd of people praising laserjet, and usually its mentally exhausting to go against crowd.
  - voxelghost 4y ago
    This is hacker news, so it's probably 50/50 probability of failure on either your sarcasm-generator or my sarcasm-parser. Perhaps we should renegotiate the sarcasm protocol? /S
    - sokoloff 4y ago
      Be conservative in what you generate and liberal in what you accept. (Postel’s Law applied to sarcasm.)
      - voxelghost 4y ago
        I accept but will log a WARNING sarcasm parser detected sarcasm without /s
parminya 4y ago
Generally speaking ink printers are regarded as a decent option for someone whose printing is predictable. Its the people who print a bunch this week and then nothing for a month or so and then another burst, who benefit from laser printers, because there's no ink to dry up. It's not that hard to find yourself in this "sweet spot" where neither print shops nor ink printers are good value for money especially if you live in a country where bureaucracy is still paper-based.
- voxelghost 4y ago
  The ink-tank printers have nozzle-cleaning that actually works as opposed to the cartridge kind where cleaning is hit and miss at best. I have also set my server to automatically print a small test page every 10 days, to avoid drying.

by deely3 4y ago

I regret to inform you that I bought Canon Pixma with refill tank and I happy with it. I print colorful A4 every day, sometime bw pages, for two years and so far I spent like $8-12 on ink refills.

voxelghost 4y ago

There seems to be some disconnect between >I regret to inform you ... and >...and I happy with it. >I spent like $8-12 on ink refills. Yeah I am still working on the bottles that came in the box, family of 4 with college students that print out a lot of work. For me it is not even the cost of the ink that bothers me the most with the ink-cartridge-printers, it is the constant complaining about Cyan cartridge being low, and then refusing to print even black and white documents, then you replace one and the next day it starts complaining about Magenta or Yellow. With the ink-tank there is a window into the tank - and you can see how much ink is left in each tank by this fantastic AR (Actual Realty) feature.

deely3 4y ago
Sorry, looks like I failed on trying to sarcasm. Im pretty happy with this printer, but somehow there always a crowd of people praising laserjet, and usually its mentally exhausting to go against crowd.
- voxelghost 4y ago
  This is hacker news, so it's probably 50/50 probability of failure on either your sarcasm-generator or my sarcasm-parser. Perhaps we should renegotiate the sarcasm protocol? /S
  - sokoloff 4y ago
    Be conservative in what you generate and liberal in what you accept. (Postel’s Law applied to sarcasm.)
    - voxelghost 4y ago
      I accept but will log a WARNING sarcasm parser detected sarcasm without /s

parminya 4y ago

Generally speaking ink printers are regarded as a decent option for someone whose printing is predictable. Its the people who print a bunch this week and then nothing for a month or so and then another burst, who benefit from laser printers, because there's no ink to dry up. It's not that hard to find yourself in this "sweet spot" where neither print shops nor ink printers are good value for money especially if you live in a country where bureaucracy is still paper-based.

voxelghost 4y ago
The ink-tank printers have nozzle-cleaning that actually works as opposed to the cartridge kind where cleaning is hit and miss at best. I have also set my server to automatically print a small test page every 10 days, to avoid drying.