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I ended up getting an Epson EcoTank printer (ET-4850). Specifications claim to have 7500 page (black) and 6000 page (cym) yields, which is around what I would e
by II2II 3y ago
I ended up getting an Epson EcoTank printer (ET-4850). Specifications claim to have 7500 page (black) and 6000 page (cym) yields, which is around what I would expect for a similarly priced monochrome laser printer. The ink itself costs about 1/2 of that for toner a similarly priced monochrome laser printer (black only, verses all four bottles). Colour lasers are more expensive for supplies.
Would I recommend it? No idea. I'm still new to the inkjet printer market. I'm sure hiccups will pop up along the way. On the other hand: it works in Linux, is quiet, and the lights don't dim when it comes to life. (It is also worth mentioning that it is more of a document printer than a photo printer.)
- throwanem 3y agoI happened to pick up the same model a little while back, to replace an HP that died after most of a decade of good service - Instant Ink's an amazingly good deal, if you use it for photos, but I wanted something I could easily use better than stock inks in. The resolution is reasonable, though the default color settings produce a blue cast (vs. both on-screen rendering and my Pixma Pro 100, as well as the HP it replaced) that I haven't figured out how to reliably prevent yet. As a photographer this irks me greatly, enough so that I won't print my own work on it until the problem is solved; others may not care. It tends to go into deep sleep and need a poke to start listening to the network again, which is annoying when it lives with the other printers in the attic. I work around this with a homelab cron job that curls the printer's admin web interface once a minute. Other than that it's been solid thus far, though admittedly I've only had it a few months. Certainly it'll be a while before I need to refill it.