[math-fun] Completely off-topic: home color printers ?
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?
Unless you need photographic quality, i’d strong suggest ditching ink squirting printers. I bought a Brother MFC-9970CDW laser printer and have been extremely happy.
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?
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I second this; I bought one of the inexpensive Color LaserJets some years back and it's been absolutely solid. Indeed, every time I print a website I am impressed with how much color adds to a page. Of course, those darn toner cartridges are expensive, but I don't need them very often. On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Tom Knight <tk@mit.edu> wrote:
Unless you need photographic quality, i’d strong suggest ditching ink squirting printers. I bought a Brother MFC-9970CDW laser printer and have been extremely happy.
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?
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print a page every week whether you need it or not. I use a hp officejet 8600 with a similar infrequent use schedule and haven't had any problem with ink.
print a page every week whether you need it or not. I use a hp officejet 8600 with a similar infrequent use schedule and haven't had any problem with ink.
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