I recently purchased an Epson Eco Tank printer (their budget mono without a scanner) [1], I'm quite impressed so far. The first thing I did was print 200+ pages

I recently purchased an Epson Eco Tank printer (their budget mono without a scanner) [1], I'm quite impressed so far. The first thing I did was print 200+ pages, and it kept up well. My biggest cost now is the price of paper (as it should be). I would suggest ink jet still could be useful, especially with cheap refillable ink rather than this expensive cartridge bullshit. I remember years ago wanting to buy a new ink cartridge for my HP printer. In the shop the printer was something like £25 (printer + scanner, black + colour ink) - or - I could pay something like £20 for black and £25 for colour cartridges. I explained to the service person "so you're telling me, it would be cheaper for me to buy a new printer, throw the printer in the bin and just take the cartridges out?". They answered "yeah". I tried to refill the ink cartridge manually with a syringe and an online guide, but never could get it to work due to their "smart secure" cartridge lock-ins. HP time and time again prove to be a massive problem in the printing industry. I think I have said on HN a few times that I would be very much interested in building an open source ink jet printer (including head) - it can't be impossible. [1] https://www.epson.co.uk/en_GB/for-home/ecotank https://www.epson.co.uk/en_GB/for-home/ecotank