TK>Unless you need photographic quality, i’d strong[ly] suggest ditching ink squirting printers. I bought a Brother MFC-9970CDW laser printer and have been extremely happy. Thanks, Tom, I'll do that! I have sworn I'll never buy another ink cartridge. I actually believe that when you turn it on, the printer software wakes up, sees how long it's been, and pees accordingly into a little sponge or something. And if one color is clogged, the "cleaning" cycle exhausts all four of them. And then there's all that anti-refill technology. And some of them won't print B&W if you're out of yellow. You should be suspicious when they practically give you the printer to begin with. --rwg On Feb 25, 2015, at 1:45 PM, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote: I can't find an inexpensive _reliable_ color printer. Part of the problem is that I only need color printing every 3 months or so, at which point the previous (expensive) cartridges have always dried out. As bad as this is, at least replacing the cartridges used to work. The newer ink-jet printers now clog the ink jets themselves, and the entire printer becomes useless. There doesn't appear to be any procedure for removing & cleaning these inkjets. I spent a couple of hours looking for color inkjet printers, and it appears that all of these printers require _gigantic_ amounts of software, none of which I need, and they all want to talk directly over the internet to their manufacturers, which I also refuse to allow. Does anyone here have any suggestions?