Never buy Epson printers
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Never buy Epson printers
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Re: Never buy Epson printers
#2Epson printers still require you to have the 4 cartridge even if you want to just print in black !
Re: Never buy Epson printers
#3Epson printers still require you to have the 4 cartridge even if you want to just print in black !
this is not unique to epson. hp and xerox printers do the same thing.
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#4Epson printers still require you to have the 4 cartridge even if you want to just print in black !
this is not unique to epson. hp and xerox printers do the same thing.
I had Lexmark before, it was never a problem! unbelievable, the thing is that I never used the colors, they dried out! You have to buy all of them just to print in black!
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#5Never buy any inkjet printer. I threw in the garbage a Canon multifunction that refused ton work as a SCANNER when its ink was empty.
If you have the space and print a lot of black and white, buy an eight year old used HP LaserJet with an Ethernet interface.
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#6I pretty much exclusively buy Epson XP-420's nowadays. What other all-in-one option is there that meets the following criteria?
1. Complete and free Linux support
2. Wireless
3. Affordable - remember, we are competing with a printer that regularly retails for $40 and whose cartridges cost around $10 per set. "Just buy the $200 Brother with $40 a set toner" isn't satisfactory to the people I recommend printers to.
HP printers are known to be draconian with their cartridge DRM, and their Linux support is kind of a PITA with how they use their own protocol and suite of tools and every HP printer I have tried has never played nice with Cups management.
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#7Never buy any inkjet printer. I threw in the garbage a Canon multifunction that refused ton work as a SCANNER when its ink was empty. If you have the space and print a lot of black and white, buy an eight year old used HP LaserJet with an Ethernet interface.
I don't know why people still bother with inkjets. It's like the companies are actively punishing you for buying these models of printers. If they are necessary for work, then MAYBE. But even then, if you're buying commercial hardware you're not dealing with this junk either.
It also used to be that laser was incredibly expensive in comparison, now they're about the same price if you compare color inkjet to black and white laser.
I bought a Brother black and white laser MFC 7 years ago. I've changed the toner three times and it is just ready to print when I am. I've never had it not print, my old inkjet required a prayer before every print job.
No nozzle jams, no problems with a color being used up, preventing a b+w print. It just works. I paid maybe $180 for the printer 7 years ago and I'm not going to replace this printer until it fully dies. It has fax and multi page scanning capabilities- the only thing that sucks is that it isn't networked by default and the Linux drivers are touchy.
I plugged it in to my TP-Link Archer C7 and their printer sharing drivers work fantastic on OS X. I will never buy another inkjet printer again.
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#8Can't this be hacked in the drivers?
I remember loving Gutenprint (née Gimp-Print) back when I printed
Re: Never buy Epson printers
#9Epson printers still require you to have the 4 cartridge even if you want to just print in black !
I believe this is because the tracking dots[1] require yellow ink.
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#10Epson printers still require you to have the 4 cartridge even if you want to just print in black !
Maybe you got to have them inserted, yes, but they can be empty. (My HP OfficeJet 6500A Plus also prints with empty color cartridges. I just replaced them today after weeks of emptyness).