Interesting. Perhaps it(drying out/clogging) depends on environmental factors? How hot, how humid is it etc. I never had luck with it myself. My first ink prin

Interesting. Perhaps it(drying out/clogging) depends on environmental factors? How hot, how humid is it etc. I never had luck with it myself. My first ink printer was a lexmark 1000. This was the only printer I could afford at the time (cheap ink jet printers just became available in my country). It printed OK-ish. It was a 3 toner or black toner cartridge printer. You'd swap in the correct cartridge for the type of the print. I was printing mostly in B/W. When I tried to print in color (maybe 2 months after) for the first time it was fine, a couple of months later it required a couple of cleaning cycles, a couple of months further it just dried out completely and I remember trying to soak it etc. I ended up buying only B/W cartridges after. Later I moved and I didn't need a home printer as I always had access to big office machines, but I worked doing "it support" amongst other things so I'd go to someone's home to help them with their wifi, or printer/scanner at least once a week. I saw my share of clogged ink jet cartridges of all makes. However this was almost 2 decades ago. Perhaps the technology of these inks really has changed as well as printing patterns to hide non functioning nozzles etc. I don't think I'll try ink again unless a photo-focused small printer comes out that is advertised as being "non drying" for months and reviews say its true. I considered buying a color laser for the kind of printing you do (documents, charts). It would be nice, but I until my current laser breaks (which may be next decade, or tomorrow) I find it hard to justify buying it.